Django tastypie serialize DecimalField as json strings instead of numbers

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Django tastypie serialize DecimalField as json strings instead of numbers

I have an application django

with tastypie

. One of the models of my application has DecimalField

. When I receive a response from the API in the format JSON

, all decimal fields are displayed as, strings

instead of numbers

:

For example, I get:

objects: [
    {
        id: "1",
        my_decimal_field: "84.54"
    }

instead

objects: [
    {
        id: "1"
        my_decimal_field: 84.54
    }

This also happens with the id field.

¿Any thoughts?

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json django tastypie

ignacio.munizaga Jan 29. '13 at 15:00

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Druska · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-19T23:37:59+0000

In JavaScript, JSON decodes double precision floating point format , resulting in loss of precision. Decimal

objects are coded before string

to maintain accuracy.

If you want to encode the JSON number format, you can use FloatField

.

Django tastypie serialize DecimalField as json strings instead of numbers

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