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[Cbor] Re: Tag for Number as String?

"David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com> Mon, 28 April 2025 17:47 UTC

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On Apr 20, 2025, at 18:18, David E. Wheeler <david@justatheory.com> wrote:

> For my use case, however, I’d like to retain the use of cbor to serialize an object (map[string]any in Go), as it’s much more compact than serialized JSON. That leaves the need for a tag to preserve numbers as strings. Would something like this be acceptable?

Or maybe I should just use 262, since it’s just outputting a byte string of the digits that represent the number. That is, when I add the previously-mentioned tag (but with 262), the hex output of `json.Number("123456")` is `d9010666313233343536`, where `d9010666` is the tag and `313233343536` is just the byte string `123456`, yes?

Best,

David

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