Swift: Byte array to decimal value - swift

Question

In my project, I communicate with a bluetooth device, the bluetooth device must send me a timestamp second, I received in byte:
[2,6,239]
When I convert converted to a string:
let payloadString = payload.map {
String(format: "%02x", $0)
}
Output:
["02", "06","ef"]
When I converted from the website 0206ef = 132847 seconds
How can I directly convert my aray [2,6,239] in second (= 132847 seconds)?
And if it's complicated then translate my array ["02", "06,"ef"] in second (= 132847 seconds)

Answer 1

The payload contains the bytes of the binary representation of the value.
You convert it back to the value by shifting each byte into its corresponding position:
let payload: [UInt8] = [2, 6, 239]
let value = Int(payload[0]) << 16 + Int(payload[1]) << 8 + Int(payload[2])
print(value) // 132847
The important point is to convert the bytes to integers before shifting, otherwise an overflow error would occur. Alternatively,
with multiplication:
let value = (Int(payload[0]) * 256 + Int(payload[1])) * 256 + Int(payload[2])
or
let value = payload.reduce(0) { $0 * 256 + Int($1) }
The last approach works with an arbitrary number of bytes – as long as
the result fits into an Int. For 4...8 bytes you better choose UInt64
to avoid overflow errors:
let value = payload.reduce(0) { $0 * 256 + UInt64($1) }

Answer 2

payloadString string can be reduced to hexStr and then converted to decimal
var payload = [2,6,239];
let payloadString = payload.map {
String(format: "%02x", $0)
}
//let hexStr = payloadString.reduce(""){$0 + $1}
let hexStr = payloadString.joined()
if let value = UInt64(hexStr, radix: 16) {
print(value)//132847
}