On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 16:25, Jason Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I suggested it was not a bug. One might argue that Couch should echo > back exactly what you give it. I can see that point but am not > persuaded. The bug is Python's deserializer being too clever. Since > Python is widespread, it is a maybe a breaking change, but not a > blocker.
I'm pretty sure I ran into this problem once and checked that CouchDB did what I felt was right (i.e. preserve number type). I think I even asked about it on the IRC channel where it was also asserted that CouchDB did this correctly. It would be a pretty big pain if this changed. Cheers, Dirkjan
