int value is changed to double on Android

[Afur]

Hey, on Android I'm facing an issue where all of my int values from json passed in message as data are converted to double on Dart side.

Example:

I send as data:

object: {
   year: 2021,
} 

I receive as Message.data (only on Android, iOS works fine):

object: {
   year: 2021.0,
} 

[sync-by-unito]

➤ Automation for Jira commented:

The link to the corresponding Jira issue is https://ably.atlassian.net/browse/SDK-3470

[owenpearson]

Hey @Afur, thank you for raising this! We will investigate and see if there's something we can do to prevent this behaviour. The underlying cause of this problem is that the android version of ably-flutter uses Gson internally and this is just the default behaviour of Gson.

As a workaround it should be possible to publish the messages as json encoded strings and decode them in your own application code, or just simply cast the values to ints upon receipt of the message. Please let us know if you need any further help.

[Afur]

Thanks for the fast response, this solution looks promising. I'll check locally if the library upgrade and that as a fix works for now. Eventually, I'll submit PR with that and you'll test whether it covers all yours use cases or didn't break something.

[Afur]

Issue still exists I've added comment in #462. Code with fix is missing on main even when PR is merged. Probably has been removed with some merge conflicts commit

[owenpearson]

Hey @Afur, thanks for raising this.

You're right that the changes in your commit were mistakenly removed during a merge, I've opened #486 to apply the changes again. Really sorry for the inconvenience here.