how are e.g. integers marshalled to/from blobs?

[tinyplasticgreyknight]

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[IreneKnapp]

Huh. Yeah, now that you mention it, none of this addresses byte order for integers, does it. I think this is a design issue, not a docs issue, so I opened a ticket for it over at IreneKnapp/modern-data#3.

[IreneKnapp]

A further comment here, by the way, is that I think the marshallings are relatively obvious for everything except integers. Floats have their byte-order specified by IEEE (I think... I looked into it at one time...). The only other types that support blob casts are utf8 and name. UTF-8 is of course already an exactly-specified format. A name is actually the output of the Murmur 3 hash function (though see IreneKnapp/modern-data#4 on the topic of reconsidering which function it is). So those should be straightforward.