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Request #69422 json_encode() needs encoding specification
Submitted: 2015-04-10 21:57 UTC Modified: 2015-04-19 22:13 UTC
From: yohgaki@php.net Assigned:
Status: Open Package: JSON related
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 [2015-04-10 21:57 UTC] yohgaki@php.net
Description:
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Currently, json_encode() encode PHP int/float/bool as JSON numeric(int/float) and bool. Since JSON numeric does not map to PHP int/float as JSON numeric could be any precision, large numbers need to be stored as "string" which is converted to JSON string.

Some "string" needed to be encoded as numeric. To do that json_encode() needs some kind of specification to encode data as programmer intended.

http://json-schema.org/examples.html

This could be used as the specification.


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 [2015-04-19 22:13 UTC] yohgaki@php.net
Related bug
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68456
 [2021-11-01 10:11 UTC] glash dot gnome at gmail dot com
Hello, I propose an incomplete solution but it may solve some problems.


Like array_intersect() we could do :

class ExpectedObject {
  string $test;
  float  $poc;
}
$obj = json_decode_spec('{"test":1234567890.12345678, "poc": "1Gm", "key":'val'}', ExpectedObject::class, ...);
var_dump($obj);

object(ExpectedObject)#1 {
   test => (string) '1234567890.12345678'
   poc  => (float) 1.0
}

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