RSpec
Ruby on Rails
Ruby
method
as_json
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Class: BigDecimal
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as_json
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encode_with
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_original_to_s
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to_d
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to_formatted_s
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to_s
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to_yaml
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as_json(options = nil)
public
A BigDecimal would be naturally represented as a JSON number. Most libraries, however, parse non-integer JSON numbers directly as floats. Clients using those libraries would get in general a wrong number and no way to recover other than manually inspecting the string with the JSON code itself.
That’s why a JSON string is returned. The JSON literal is not numeric, but if the other end knows by contract that the data is supposed to be a BigDecimal, it still has the chance to post-process the string and get the real value.
