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Use JSON instead of "PHP-style nested object syntax" to send actual data types in the metadata

See original GitHub issue

Currently, because bugsnag-js serializes metadata as “PHP-style nested objects” into the query string, the actual data types get lost.

https://github.com/bugsnag/bugsnag-js/blob/9fc759f7c5ecdab9d13a23ac321a106d9f1dc913/src/bugsnag.js#L753-L756

Preserving the data types in the reports is important to debug certain type-related issues which are not uncommon in weakly typed JavaScript.

The data types could be preserved by using JSON.

The public Bugsnag API is advertised to take JSON payload: https://docs.bugsnag.com/api/error-reporting/#json-payload

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Created 7 years ago
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kattralicommented, Jan 12, 2017

There’s a lot of good points and interesting discussion in here. It makes sense that we give more thought to supporting a more modern delivery mechanism in addition to the existing options, though the library’s API for handling this would need to be refined somewhat. I posted some related ideas on @jacobmarshall’s related issue here. The next steps are to explore and define this idea more concretely, hopefully to have an expressive yet performant (and backwards compatible) library.

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kattralicommented, Jan 12, 2017

@sompylasar That’s a great point too. Thanks!

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