flatbuffers: Serializing of doubles into JSON in C++ is broken
Hi,
I have a problem with JSON de/serialization of doubles. Given this minimal example:
table Foobar
{
mydouble: double;
}
root_type Foobar;
Deserializing of
{
"mydouble": -1.78814e-07
}
Will result in the correct binary representation of the double. But when serializing back to JSON the resulting JSON looks like this:
{
"mydouble": -0.0
}
The root cause for this is located in util.h:84
ss << std::fixed << t;
I get the point that in some cases people don’t want to have scientific notation. Still, I think this should be a configurable option of the parser.
About this issue
- Original URL
- State: closed
- Created 6 years ago
- Comments: 33 (16 by maintainers)
The option was a suggestion, I agree that most important is correctness for sure.