add: hex2uint64 util

README.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ A tiny stateless service to return health status and useful metrics from OpenEth
 #### Endpoints
 
 - `/health` (Expect 200 for health with an additional JSON object with more info)
-- `/metrics` (Expect 200 for health with an additional JSON object with more info)
+- `/metrics` (Expect 200 with an additional JSON object with more info)
 
 #### Development
 

internal/server/handlers.go

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package server
 
 import (
 	"git.grassecon.org/grassrootseconomics/openethereum-node-status/pkg/rpc"
+	"git.grassecon.org/grassrootseconomics/openethereum-node-status/pkg/util"
 	"github.com/rs/zerolog/log"
 	"github.com/ybbus/jsonrpc/v2"
 )
@@ -17,8 +18,8 @@ type (
 	}
 
 	BatchMetricsResponse struct {
-		GasPrice    string
+		GasPrice    uint64
-		BlockNumber string
+		BlockNumber uint64
 	}
 )
 
@@ -85,7 +86,7 @@ func batchMetricsCall() (bool, BatchMetricsResponse) {
 			return false, batchResponse
 		}
 		// If sync is complete the rpc result is false, however this call dones't gurantee all blocks have been imported
-		batchResponse.GasPrice = val
+		batchResponse.GasPrice = util.Hex2Int(val)
 	}
 
 	if blockNumber, ok := rpcResponses[1]; ok {
@@ -93,7 +94,7 @@ func batchMetricsCall() (bool, BatchMetricsResponse) {
 		if err != nil {
 			return false, batchResponse
 		}
-		batchResponse.BlockNumber = val
+		batchResponse.BlockNumber = util.Hex2Int(val)
 	}
 
 	return true, batchResponse

pkg/util/hex2int.go

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+package util
+
+import (
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+func Hex2Int(hexStr string) uint64 {
+	cleaned := strings.Replace(hexStr, "0x", "", -1)
+	result, _ := strconv.ParseUint(cleaned, 16, 64)
+	return uint64(result)
+}