Decoding large integers. about null

[guregu]

Hello, thank you for the kind words.

null.Float/zero.Float and would be the closest thing to Javascript numbers, and should support scientific notation.

Just making sure: are you numbers within the range of Go's int64 and just happen to be in scientific notation, or are your numbers larger than int64 can handle?

Go's encoding/json package dislikes scientific notation in any integer, even if it's a small number: http://play.golang.org/p/u_Am5XoPJW
Seems like a bug to me, to be honest...

Did you add support for something like big.Int?
Either way, I would be happy to include your code.

[juandiegopalomino]

Hi guregu,
So upon further investigation, it seems that my issue stemmed from first unmarshalling the json to a map[string]interface{}, which automatically writes numbers in scientific notation. Sorry about that. The solution I wrote was basically, if unmarshalling to an int64 failed, then try unmarshalling it to a float64, and using that number if it's a valid int64 (I check that it doesn't have decimals, and is within the int64 range). If you're still interested, I'll be happy to supply you the small fix (it's only 10 lines). Thank you for your time, and have a nice day!

[guregu]

I'll keep things as-is for now, but thanks for the input.