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[Aravind Muralikrishnan <aravindm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Lars. We will pick this up.

-Aravind


On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I think that is a good idea. Much appreciated if you take that on.
>
> best regards,
>
> Lars
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Aravind Muralikrishnan <
> aravindm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Lars,
>>
>> Sample payload looks like this:
>>
>> {
>>     "key0": true,
>>     "key1": "true"
>>     "key2": {
>>         "name": "some name"
>>     },
>>     "key3": 3
>> }
>>
>> key0 will be stored as boolean, key1 will be stored as string, key2 will
>> be stored as a map, key3 will be stored as integer.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Aravind
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Aravind,
>>>
>>> you are correct. We only support string based values in the API at the
>>> moment, which is a weakness. I think your suggestion makes sense. Could you
>>> provide an example payload with type information the way you envision it?
>>>
>>> best regards,
>>>
>>> Lars
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Aravind Muralikrishnan <
>>> aravindm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> While trying to store *"**keyHideUnapprovedDataInAnalytics"* as *false*using the system settings api, we realised that it stores it as a String,
>>>> while the DefaultAnalyticsSecurityManager when reading the value back
>>>> tries to type cast it to a Boolean and it fails.
>>>>
>>>> Right now, the system settings api does not expose an endpoint to store
>>>> other data types except String.
>>>>
>>>> We were thinking of exposing another api all together, which can take a
>>>> JSON as post body,
>>>> ex: *{"keyHideUnapprovedDataInAnalytics":true}* and then store the
>>>> values along with type information.
>>>>
>>>> Please suggest if there are better alternatives.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Aravind
>>>>
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