int64 transformed to string for .encode()

[cd24]

Version of protoc (protoc --version)

3.1

Version of ProtocolBuffers.framework

3.0.6

.proto file to reproduce

syntax = "proto3";
message myMessage {
  int64 my_int = 1;
}

Description

When using this tool, I expect for int64 fields to be represented as numbers in their json form (int64). In the same way that the component casts Double, I would expect that a declared Int64 field is cast as Int64, rather than wrapped in a string.

The produced file has

jsonMap["myInt"] = "\(myInt)"

When i would expect

jsonMap["myInt"] = myInt

I have confirmed that removing the quotes in the generated file does not produce errors for encoding, and creates the expected behavior.

[alexeyxo]

Hi! You are wrong. In official google specification Int64/Fixed64/UInt64 in json has represented as String. JSON Mapping