Uint64 attribute value

[technicallyty]

Problem Statement

My code deals with a lot of uint64 values, and attribute does not have any attribute.Uint64. I have to either cast it or just add //nolint directives.

Proposed Solution

Add a uint64 attribute type

Alternatives

Just use int64 and cast/nolint

Prior Art

N/A?

Additional Context

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[MrAlias]

There is no uint64 support in the OTel data-model: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto/blob/b80501798339bf5cf4cb49c0027ee8d6bb03eae0/opentelemetry/proto/common/v1/common.proto#L31-L38

Accepting this value in the API means the SDK has to handle overflow instead of the user. Not accepting this value means a user needs to make their own decision about how to handle these edge cases, which is preferable.

Until the data-model accepts this data-type, we should not accept it at the API.