[VOTE] JSON number to string

Hi Jakub,

The idea would be to use JSON schema just for selecting the type for
deserialized item in decoded JSON. It means that you could for example
select one float item that you want to decode as a string but other floats
would be still decoded as floats. That gives a better flexibility and helps
the problem in the same way. Please see my email to Alexey when we
discussed this RFC (there are few examples):

internals@lists.php.net/msg78698.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg78698.html

Thank you for the reply.
This could be done, but requires more work just to get raw value out of
JSON.
So I vote "yes" for all because your RFC is feasible resolution and useful
enough.

As I wrote in somewhere in discussion, it was better if all values are
decoded as
string just like DB values. Encoding is headache, though..

Regards,

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Yasuo Ohgaki
yohgaki@ohgaki.net

Hi Guys
It was state that JSON scheme will take some time to be implement
and probably wouldn't be able for 5.6. IMHO JSON_FLOAT_AS_STRING
probably it isn't the idle fix (the idle solution would be to not even have
a bug/error like this),
so the question would be, do we want developers decoding json with
precision loss until JSON scheme
eventually comes or give them the ability
to decide for them self on how to proceed.

+1
Pasindu

Hi Yasuo,

Hi Derick,

Hi,

The voting is now open:

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/json_numeric_as_string#voting

FWIW, I voted no to all of them because (as you even say in the RFC),
this is probably better be solved with a JSON schema thingy.

JSON Schema does not help to decoding/encoding numeric data without
loosing data.

JSON Schema Core
http://json-schema.org/latest/json-schema-core.html#anchor8
Note: JSON specification does not specify precision. So number could be
any number.

JSON Schema Validation
http://json-schema.org/latest/json-schema-validation.html#anchor5

Those who do not care rounding errors/etc, they can use default behavior.

The idea would be to use JSON schema just for selecting the type for
deserialized item in decoded JSON. It means that you could for example
select one float item that you want to decode as a string but other floats
would be still decoded as floats. That gives a better flexibility and helps
the problem in the same way. Please see my email to Alexey when we
discussed this RFC (there are few examples):

internals@lists.php.net/msg78698.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg78698.html

Cheers

Jakub

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