Why boost property tree write_json saves everything as string? Is it possible to change that?
- by pprzemek
I'm trying to serialize using boost property tree write_json, it saves everything as strings, it's not that data are wrong, but I need to cast them explicitly every time and I want to use them somewhere else. (like in python or other C++ json (non boost) library)
here is some sample code and what I get depending on locale:
boost::property_tree::ptree root, arr, elem1, elem2;
elem1.put<int>("key0", 0);
elem1.put<bool>("key1", true);
elem2.put<float>("key2", 2.2f);
elem2.put<double>("key3", 3.3);
arr.push_back( std::make_pair("", elem1) );
arr.push_back( std::make_pair("", elem2) );
root.put_child("path1.path2", arr);
std::stringstream ss;
write_json(ss, root);
std::string my_string_to_send_somewhare_else = ss.str();
and my_string_to_send_somewhere_else is sth. like this:
{
"path1" :
{
"path2" :
[
{
"key0" : "0",
"key1" : "true"
},
{
"key2" : "2.2",
"key3" : "3.3"
}
]
}
}
Is there anyway to save them as the values, like:
"key1" : true or "key2" : 2.2 ?
