Josh Levy created PIG-3121:
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             Summary: Optionally convert long to chararray in JsonStorage
                 Key: PIG-3121
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-3121
             Project: Pig
          Issue Type: Improvement
    Affects Versions: 0.10.0
            Reporter: Josh Levy


I work with a data set that uses random longs (64 bit integers) as identifiers. 
 Recently I've been accessing the data from Pig and using JsonStorage to save 
records, that I then run through another script to get JSON that I can feed 
into other tools.  One of the tools I use is broken in the sense that it treats 
all numbers as 64 bit floating point, and it can't faithfully reproduce most of 
the identifiers I pass it.  My work around is to convert the identifiers to 
strings before they get to that tool.  

If I provide a patch, is there interest in adding an option to JsonStorage that 
tells it to serialize all longs as if they are strings? 

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