From 67806a76b84e4f1597ab9e438675b47e4122abb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arjan Zijderveld <5286904+arjanz@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:32:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed incorrect encoding byte length

---
 jamcodec/types.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/jamcodec/types.py b/jamcodec/types.py
index bd73348..3987aa2 100644
--- a/jamcodec/types.py
+++ b/jamcodec/types.py
@@ -831,6 +831,8 @@ def __init__(self, length: int, strict_decoding: bool = True):
 
     def encode(self, value: Union[list, str, bytes]) -> JamBytes:
 
+        byte_length = (self.length + 7) // 8
+
         if type(value) is list:
             value = sum(v << i for i, v in enumerate(value))
 
@@ -847,8 +849,6 @@ def encode(self, value: Union[list, str, bytes]) -> JamBytes:
         if type(value) is not int:
             raise ScaleEncodeException("Provided value is not an int, binary str or a list of booleans")
 
-        byte_length = math.ceil(value.bit_length() / 8)
-
         return JamBytes(value.to_bytes(length=byte_length, byteorder='little'))
 
     def decode(self, data: JamBytes) -> list: