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author | Xavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com> | 2010-05-04 19:36:26 +0200 |
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committer | Xavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com> | 2010-05-04 19:36:26 +0200 |
commit | 583b60d109522907020700225f1c739737297a2d (patch) | |
tree | a36d986cbbb73c94d217cbe86c9af7ef97a89567 /activesupport/lib/active_support/json | |
parent | 44a98967676492995d19fd4d541dbc9d52bf6b53 (diff) | |
parent | 0dd3b4630fea4bd4d4010b7096c9ee79d34c4501 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoding.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoding.rb index e692f6d142..02c233595d 100644 --- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoding.rb +++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoding.rb @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ # encoding: utf-8 require 'bigdecimal' require 'active_support/core_ext/array/wrap' +require 'active_support/core_ext/big_decimal/conversions' # for #to_s require 'active_support/core_ext/hash/except' require 'active_support/core_ext/hash/slice' require 'active_support/core_ext/module/delegation' @@ -178,6 +179,14 @@ class Numeric end class BigDecimal + # A BigDecimal would be naturally represented as a JSON number. Most libraries, + # however, parse non-integer JSON numbers directly as floats. Clients using + # those libraries would get in general a wrong number and no way to recover + # other than manually inspecting the string with the JSON code itself. + # + # That's why a JSON string is returned. The JSON literal is not numeric, but if + # the other end knows by contract that the data is supposed to be a BigDecimal, + # it still has the chance to post-process the string and get the real value. def as_json(options = nil) to_s end #:nodoc: end |