Martin J. Evans wrote:
As a result, I'm not pushing this in any way. It would seem the idea
in DBI of saying this column is an integer so I want it as an integer
looks ok on the surface until the numbers get large when things get
rather inconsistent. Not really wishing to complicate this anymore I
note that some other modules that have to deal with big numbers turn
them into Math::BigInt (from what I remember not being near my notes
now) objects.
Right. Rose::DB uses Math::BigInt (and so does my current project)
nearly transparently. The only little annoyance is that Math::BigInt and
JSON::XS don't "know" each other, i.e. JSON::XS usually refuses to
serialise Math::BigInt objects or creates a Dump of the Math::BigInt
internals. Luckily, all you need is a single line of code, and you have
to enable the convert_blessed flag in JSON::XS.
*Math::BigInt::TO_JSON=\&Math::BigInt::bstr;
Alexander
