[protobuf] Re: why does uint64, fixed64 map to string when converted to JSON

2016-07-21 Thread Shashwat Agarwal
Thanks a lot Jon. I have been dealing with JSON usually in the backend far more than with Javascript. On Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 6:28:22 PM UTC+5:30, Jon Skeet wrote: > > On Monday, 18 July 2016 18:25:41 UTC+1, Shashwat Agarwal wrote: >> >> I was looking at this document: >>

[protobuf] Re: why does uint64, fixed64 map to string when converted to JSON

2016-07-19 Thread 'Jon Skeet' via Protocol Buffers
On Monday, 18 July 2016 18:25:41 UTC+1, Shashwat Agarwal wrote: > > I was looking at this document: > https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#json and > noticed that int64, fixed64, uint64 are mapped to string when converting to > JSON. Any specific reason why this is done?