Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68456&edit=1
ID: 68456
Comment by: admin at bittylicious dot com
Reported by: admin at bittylicious dot com
Summary: json_decode should be able to treat all numbers as
strings
Status: Re-Opened
Type: Feature/Change Request
Package: JSON related
Operating System: Linux Wheezy
PHP Version: 5.4.35
Assigned To: bukka
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
Thanks very much for that. I certainly think the severity warrants it considering there is no real
workaround.
Previous Comments:
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[2015-04-22 17:26:17] bukka@php.net
As I said I don't think that adding new flags is the best solution but it's also true that
properly implementing json schema will take much longer and it's a relatively big feature.
Ok then I will let the PHP members decide. It means that I will proceed with the RFC. I will need to
add more info into it but will probably put it under discussion in the next few weeks.
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[2015-04-19 22:12:43] yohgaki@php.net
Related bug
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69422
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[2015-04-19 19:32:17] admin at bittylicious dot com
Thanks for discussing this on the mailing list - good to hear there are some positive comments too.
I still think this, simpler version should be implemented. We already have JSON_BIGINT_AS_STRING so
it seems as though it could be argued as plugging a missing option rather than a full on enhancement
as such. Going the whole hog and allowing object hints etc., is far larger than this; having this
fix go in means that users can implement "casting" to objects manually, but I have no even
remotely-nice workaround I can use to handle these float values at all at present.
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[2015-04-19 19:09:26] bukka@php.net
Just a quick update. We had a discussion about it on internal list: http://bit.ly/1D2ZyAR . I also started RFC to propose addition of
float and int to string flags: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/json_numeric_as_string
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However I have been thinking about that a lot and I don't think it would be a proper way how to
fix this. Such flag would influence all float values and it's limited only to string.
I think that better solution would be to introduce support for json schema validation that could be
also extended as a sort of type hints for supplied json. Then it would be possible to select just
specific values and use whatever types (e.g. objects or string). It's a relativaly bigger
feature so it might take a bit longer but I think that it's a proper way of fixing this.
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[2015-03-15 21:17:21] admin at bittylicious dot com
Fab stuff, thanks so much for examining this. Great to hear that the encode functionality is also
under consideration too.
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