Anyway to force deocde fixed64/uint64 as string ?

[k8w]

Notice that now it's decoded as long Object.
Anyway to force it to be as string ?
Sometimes string is more useful.

For example, when a uint64 is used as id, string is more convenient to compare and use.

[dcodeIO]

Long objects implement toString([radix=10]) for this purpose (see).

Note that you could also just compare any Long object using == instead of === to a string but this performs the conversion operation for each such comparison.

[k8w]

Of course long.js is useful.

But actually, Long is JSON-unfriendly.

Say I have a service that get some message from a grpc service, and return a json to browser.
If fixed64 and uint64 is Long, it is not convenient to transform everyone to string.

Especially at some cases when protobuf message need to convert to JSON, and transport to browser...
And they are not used for calculate

[dcodeIO]

You know that there is Message#asJSON, which supports { longs: String } as an option, right?

The reason why longs aren't just strings by default is that every conversion from bits to strings and vice-versa has a cost, and you really don't want this to happen implicitly all the time.

[k8w]

Thanks, asJSON really solve this perfectly.

Sorry for that I really don't know this before, maybe it's because never find this function in generated static js files.

Maybe consider to include asJSON in generated js ?

[dcodeIO]

There is no asJSON/from for static code, yet. Related: #588

[dcodeIO]

Closing this for now as 6.4.0, which is now released, should solve the issue. Feel free to reopen the issue if necessary.