Why JUInts?

[ncordon]

Is there any strong reason to use JUints when Scala does not support the Unsigned Int type and python-client does not support them either?

Well, in fact in the python-client we have ways of casting to uint64 in the native part, but they are never going to get called, since the type of node, as linked before, is not going to ever return NODE_UINT

[bzz]

Good point. Honestly, I do not think we really need it.

It was just added as an attempt to implement the interface that we have on the native side with the conversion in the managed code.

I think it's safe to drop it and document that behavior is similar to python-client.

[ncordon]

This can be closed, since having JUints seems to be protecting against losing bytes in encoding ∘decoding operations. The same cannot be said about the python-client, so will open an issue there.