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…”
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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
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It’s neither JSON’s nor JavaScript’s fault that you don’t want to make a simple function call to properly deserialize the data.
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