QuotaValidityTime should be processed as duration instead of time

[mogaika]

As in 3GPP TS 29.244 version 16.5.0 Release 16 8.2.132 Quota Validity Time : It contains the quota validity time in seconds. Current implementation parses and creates it as time.Time

[mogaika]

Also Time Threshold currently converted as uint32, but it should be treated as time.Duration. Overall I like uint32 more, because it enforces you to think about rounding to seconds correctly, but for consistency it probably should be time.Duration.

[wmnsk]

Thanks, fixed in #123.

Overall I like uint32 more, because it enforces you to think about rounding to seconds correctly, but for consistency it probably should be time.Duration.

I understand it, and when passing values from a protocol to another this "friendliness" would bother as well. As you may already know, there is ie.New function as a generic constructor for creating anything by hand, but this time I also exported these functions to make manual creation easier (and updated README). For value retrieval, I may add something to return "raw" type or may not - for now I don't think it's worth, but let me know your opinion if any.

// NewUint8ValIE creates a new IE with uint8 value.
func NewUint8IE(itype uint16, v uint8) *IE {
    return newUint8ValIE(itype, v)
}

// NewUint16ValIE creates a new IE with uint16 value.
func NewUint16IE(itype uint16, v uint16) *IE {
    return newUint16ValIE(itype, v)
}

// NewUint32ValIE creates a new IE with uint32 value.
func NewUint32IE(itype uint16, v uint32) *IE {
    return newUint32ValIE(itype, v)
}

// NewUint64ValIE creates a new IE with uint64 value.
func NewUint64IE(itype uint16, v uint64) *IE {
    return newUint64ValIE(itype, v)
}

// NewStringIE creates a new IE with string value.
func NewStringIE(itype uint16, v string) *IE {
    return newStringIE(itype, v)
}

// NewFQDNIE creates a new IE with FQDN value.
func NewFQDNIE(itype uint16, v string) *IE {
    return newFQDNIE(itype, v)
}

[mogaika]

Indeed it is good idea to expose some common methods like these, especially this could help with vendor ies

[wmnsk]

Great, thanks for your feedback. I haven't considered much about vendor-specific IEs so far, but now I'm wondering to add a value retrieving methods like ValueAsUint32() for easier handling of vendor-specific IEs. I guess current users already have such functions on their own, but anyway.