tlv: add in new BigSizeT type

This type is useful when one wants to encode an integer as an underlying BigSize record. It wraps any integer, then handles the transformation into and out of the BigSize encoding on disk.

Author: Roasbeef

tlv/record_type.go

@@ -159,3 +159,30 @@ func ZeroRecordT[T TlvType, V any]() RecordT[T, V] {
 		Val: v,
 	}
 }
+
+// BigSizeT is a high-order type that represents a TLV record that encodes an
+// integer as a BigSize value in the stream.
+type BigSizeT[T constraints.Integer] struct {
+	// We'll store the base value in the struct as a uin64, but then expose
+	// a public method to cast to the specified type.
+	v uint64
+}
+
+// NewBigSizeT creates a new BigSizeT type from a given integer type.
+func NewBigSizeT[T constraints.Integer](val T) BigSizeT[T] {
+	return BigSizeT[T]{
+		v: uint64(val),
+	}
+}
+
+// Int returns the underlying integer value of the BigSize record.
+func (b BigSizeT[T]) Int() T {
+	return T(b.v)
+}
+
+// Record returns the underlying record interface for the record type.
+func (t *BigSizeT[T]) Record() Record {
+	// We use a zero value for the type here as this should be used with
+	// the higher order RecordT type.
+	return MakeBigSizeRecord(0, &t.v)
+}