Writing strings that contain integers as integer fails, deviates from Node API about buffer HOT 2 CLOSED

Thanks for the bug report. I'll fix this as soon as I have a free moment.

On Tuesday, September 9, 2014, Brett Jackson [email protected]
wrote:

The following will work:

var number = "1003";

var nodeBuf = new Buffer(64);

// Succeeds
nodeBuf.writeUInt16LE(number, 0);
console.log("Written to buffer: " + nodeBuf.readUInt16LE(0));

The following will not:

var NEWBuffer = require('buffer/').Buffer;

var newBuffer = new NEWBuffer(64);

// Fails
newBuffer.writeUInt16LE(number, 0);

Node's internal buffer handles this case and parses the integer, but this
buffer implementation fails in Node and throws this error:

$ node bufferDebug.js

d:_\node_modules\buffer\index.js:1168
if (!test) throw new Error(message || 'Failed assertion')
^
Error: cannot write a non-number as a number
at assert (d:*__\node_modules\buffer\index.js:1168:20)
at verifuint (d:*__\node_modules\buffer\index.js:1148:3)
at writeUInt16 (d:*__\node_modules\buffer\index.js:744:5)
at Uint8Array.Buffer.writeUInt16LE (d:*_**_\node_modules\buffer\index.js:760:10)
at Object. (d:*_*****\server\utilities\bufferDebug.js:19:11
)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)

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from buffer.

Fixed in 2.6.0.

from buffer.