Class: BigDecimal

Inherits:
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Defined in:
activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/json.rb

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#as_json(options = nil) ⇒ Object

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.



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# File 'activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/json.rb', line 136

def as_json(options = nil) # :nodoc:
  finite? ? to_s : nil
end