Add a property with value "true" (as a string) about hulk HOT 3 CLOSED

Hi,
If you set {smartParsing: false} in the options dictionary, then every value gets returned as a string, instead of trying to do type coercion.

Hope that helps!

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Thanks, I actually think the type coercion is a pretty cool feature!

It could be nice for the editor to perhaps accept some kind of escape sequence that would indicate type in this cases. A similar case would be saving a number as a string, which could be relevant for a phone number.

One way this could be done is to take quotes that surround a value that would otherwise be parsed as a non-string type (boolean, number etc.) to mean that the value should be interpreted as a string. So "true" would be the string true, and ""true"" would be the string "true".

I guess this is more a suggestion than an actual issue, feel free of course to close it if my suggestion is off.

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Hm. I'll have to think about this.

I'm worried about corrupting/coercing the values in the data besides what someone could reasonably anticipate would be coerced. I'll try to think of a good convention for "interpret this field as a string". One obvious idea is a data- attribute, except all of the fields are getting generated dynamically anyway so you'd have to add the data- attribute yourself and that would be a mess.

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