nat16

The CandidType object nat16 corresponds to the Candid type nat16, is inferred to be a TypeScript number, and will be decoded into a JavaScript Number at runtime.

TypeScript or JavaScript:

import { Canister, nat16, query } from 'azle';

export default Canister({
    getNat16: query([], nat16, () => {
        return 65_535;
    }),
    printNat16: query([nat16], nat16, (nat16) => {
        console.log(typeof nat16);
        return nat16;
    })
});

Candid:

service : () -> {
    getNat16 : () -> (nat16) query;
    printNat16 : (nat16) -> (nat16) query;
}

dfx:

dfx canister call candid_canister printNat16 '(65_535 : nat16)'
(65_535 : nat16)