On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Abraham,
>
> That is true, but we are going to run into exactly the same problem
> with 64-bit status ids.
This has already happened. Tweet ids are now bigger than a 32 bit int
can store. That's what Twitpocalypse 2 was all about.
-Chad
>
> And that is going to break a LOT of PHP applications in one fell
> swoop.
>
> Dewald
>
> On Sep 24, 2:27 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Twitter could add:
>> "next_cursor_string":"1314614526448841129"
>>
>> Minimal cost and it would be backwards compatible.
>>
>> Abraham
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:06, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Jesse,
>>
>> > It will add exactly two quote characters (") per numeric field in the
>> > JSON payload.
>>
>> > In any event, I am now hacking the raw JSON output to convert the ids
>> > and cursors to string. It's not an ideal solution but it works.
>>
>> > Dewald
>>
>> > On Sep 24, 12:34 pm, Jesse Stay <jesses...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > > > This goes for any large numbers, including tweet ids. As far as I am
>> > > > concerned they can output everything in JSON as strings.
>>
>> > > That would create quite a memory footprint! I prefer to use ints where
>> > > possible and strings only where necessary. I think it would be to your
>> > > benefit to just convert to 64-bit PHP. While PHP is type-less, other
>> > > languages aren't, and converting back to int is much more a pain in C
>> > than
>> > > it is in PHP. I suggest Twitter leave it the way it is - it should be up
>> > to
>> > > the end recipient to convert it in a way that works. Maybe write some
>> > new
>> > > JSON libraries that parse it correctly? That's what open source is for.
>>
>> > > Jesse
>>
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