23 bitwise ops

[nddipiazza]

add a left-shift operator to Unsigned integer

TODO:

• more useful operators that aren't trivial

[lukaseder]

Thanks for your suggestion.

I don't see a reason to rush an actual implementation. This certainly requires more design. I'll keep your issue #23 open to track community interest.

[nddipiazza]

Thanks @lukaseder
This is going to be very useful on a PR I'm working on for Apache Tika. We are doing some parsing of MS-FSSHTTPB file structure and all of the parsing code is written on c#. So as I'm going from C# to Java, of course there are tons of unsigned data types to deal with. So as I port the code, i'd like to switch all uint with your UInteger but it's tricky because of all the bitwise ops. Adding a few methods goes a long way.

[lukaseder]

OK, how about this:

• First we'd have to agree on naming of methods
• Then, we'd have to make sure the methods are on all types (why just UInteger?)
• Then, we'd have to make sure all edge cases are handled. For example, inclusiveOr(int val). What if val is negative? do we just pretend it's an unsigned int? Or, xor(long val). What if it overflows?

There are more. I don't want to spend the time on this right now (unless you have some budget?), because:

• It won't benefit jOOQ (the primary client of this library)
• There's not enough traction from the community yet