How to convert from []byte to int in Go Programming

byte, client-server, go, tcp, type-conversion

Solution

You can use encoding/binary's ByteOrder to do this for 16, 32, 64 bit types

Play

package main

import "fmt"
import "encoding/binary"

func main() {
    var mySlice = []byte{244, 244, 244, 244, 244, 244, 244, 244}
    data := binary.BigEndian.Uint64(mySlice)
    fmt.Println(data)
}

Problem

I need to create a client-server example over TCP. In the client side I read 2 numbers and I send them to the server. The problem I faced is that I can't convert from `[]byte` to `int`, because the communication accept only data of type `[]byte`. Is there any way to convert `[]byte` to `int` or I can send `int` to the server? Some sample code will be really appreciated. Thanks.

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