Decimal number support, or workaround

[tuscland]

Hello,

JSX is a nice and concise library, thank you!

I would like to use the numeric format for decimal numbers, unfortunately the number representation only works with erlang floating point values.

One solution I see would be to give a binary-string representation of the decimal number, boxed in a tuplewith a special key telling JSX to format it as a number, perhaps by ways of escaping the value in a special tuple, something like:

[
    {<<"my_decimal_number">>, {'_json_number', <<"23.01">>}}
]

Of course, this also poses the problem of decoding a decimal number with JSX. Again, we could choose to box the string representation of a number so the choice to actually decode it to a float is left to the user. This process could be selected by an option...

Any ideas?

Best,
Cam

[talentdeficit]

i'm still working on a more user friendly way to handle custom encoding/decoding. i'll hopefully have something for you soon

[tuscland]

Hi,
May I ask you if you have made progress on this project?
Thanks!

[talentdeficit]

i have, but i've been busy with other projects. i'll try to get a new release out in the next week or two

[paulo-ferraz-oliveira]

@talentdeficit: did this eventually make its way to the code base? Is this still a valid concern?