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- cross-posted to:
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- programmerhumor
Meme transcription:
Panel 1: Bilbo Baggins ponders, “After all… why should I care about the difference between int and String?
Panel 2: Bilbo Baggins is revealed to be an API developer. He continues, “JSON is always String, anyways…”
What’s the point of your schema if the receiving end is JavaScript, for example? You can convert a string to BigNumber, but you’ll get wrong data if you’re sending a number.
What makes you think so?
const bigJSON = '{"gross_gdp": 12345678901234567890}'; JSON.parse(bigJSON, (key, value, context) => { if (key === "gross_gdp") { // Ignore the value because it has already lost precision return BigInt(context.source); } return value; }); > {gross_gdp: 12345678901234567890n}https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/JSON/parse