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mort96 • today at 7:27 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

I 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 • today 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)
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nh2 • today at 8:11 AM

JSON has arbitrary length numbers in the spec only.

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