[Gretl-devel] Datatypes of json items

Dear all, I hope you had a successful gretl conference in Naples! I am currently working with json files again. Using latest git version of gretl on Ubuntu linux (even though the behavior also occurs for older versions), I've found that some of the json-elements grabbed are not of the expected datatype. See the the following example and the file attached: <hansl> string PATH2JSON = "/home/at/tmp/"                    # set your path string jsonfile = sprintf("%s/ex_json_num_vector.json", PATH2JSON) string jread = readfile("@jsonfile") bundle B = jsongetb(jread) b = B.JSON # Evaluate type of elements #----------------------------------------------------- # Item         Expected        Is # v1        string                null # v2        string array       string array # v3        scalar               scalar # v4        matrix              string array loop i=1..nelem(b) -q     string str = "v$i"     eval b["@str"]     eval typestr(typeof(b["@str"]))     print "" endloop </hansl> Is there a rational reason for this behavior? Best, Artur