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+//
+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+//
+
+#include <lua.h>
+#include <lauxlib.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <inttypes.h>
+
+const char * LONG_NUM_TYPE = "__thrift_longnumber";
+int64_t lualongnumber_checklong(lua_State *L, int index) {
+  switch (lua_type(L, index)) {
+    case LUA_TNUMBER:
+      return (int64_t)lua_tonumber(L, index);
+    case LUA_TSTRING:
+      return atoll(lua_tostring(L, index));
+    default:
+      return *((int64_t *)luaL_checkudata(L, index, LONG_NUM_TYPE));
+  }
+}
+
+// Creates a new longnumber and pushes it onto the statck
+int64_t * lualongnumber_pushlong(lua_State *L, int64_t *val) {
+  int64_t *data = (int64_t *)lua_newuserdata(L, sizeof(int64_t)); // longnum
+  luaL_getmetatable(L, LONG_NUM_TYPE);                            // longnum, mt
+  lua_setmetatable(L, -2);                                        // longnum
+  if (val) {
+    *data = *val;
+  }
+  return data;
+}
+