Web3.js: return value type int and uint actually returns an object

[SCBuergel]

I have a couple of test functions in solidity:

function Test1() constant returns (uint)
{
    return (1234);
}
function Test2() constant returns (int)
{
    return (2234);
}
function Test3() constant returns (string)
{
    return ("3234");
}
function Test4() constant returns (bool)
{
    return (false);
}

I am running these functions via an instance of a contract in the Chrome console and get some strange object which (amongst others) also contains my return value:

It would be much more convenient if the first two cases would also just return the plain int / uint value.

[frozeman]

The first two is an big number object, this is because javascript can't handle big numbers. Though we could return it as number in a string,a and then people could deal with their own big number libraries.

[SCBuergel]

Thanks for the explanation, that was not quite clear when looking at an object with members called c, e and s. I think this would be very useful to document.

[frozeman]

https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/JavaScript-API#a-note-on-big-numbers-in-web3js