This PR introduces a new concept: A Singer custom string format type that specifies a decimal value.
The reasoning behind this is to maintain decimal precision throughout ELT pipelines by converting to and from JSON strings and parsing with decimal.Decimal (in Python).
Manual QA steps
None, will write automated unittests to exercise this function.
Description of change
This PR introduces a new concept: A Singer custom string format type that specifies a decimal value.
The reasoning behind this is to maintain decimal precision throughout ELT pipelines by converting to and from JSON strings and parsing with
decimal.Decimal(in Python).Manual QA steps
Risks
Rollback steps