alt Hacker NewsI hate this so much because you can’t nicely serialise a BigInt as JSON. Using a string is nicer but it only makes sense where int64 is used as an ID, not where it’s used as a number; and you don’t wanna have to configure this per field per query.
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sheept • yesterday at 10:06 AM
You can serialize a BigInt by specifying a replacer:
const obj = { a: 9007199254740993n }
JSON.stringify(obj, (_key, value) => typeof value === 'bigint' ? JSON.rawJSON(value.toString()) : value)➕ show 1 reply
IMO, I'm tending toward thinking that having types on your readable serialization format is a mistake, and that they should be always input to the (de)serializer instead.