Why does Boost property tree write_json save everything as string? Is it possible to change that?

Question

I\'m trying to serialize using boost property tree write_json, it saves everything as strings, it\'s not that data are wrong, but I need to cast them explicitly every time a

Answer 1

I ended up adding another function to my utils to solve this:

#include 
#include 
#include 

namespace bpt = boost::property_tree;
typedef bpt::ptree JSON;
namespace boost { namespace property_tree {
    inline void write_jsonEx(const std::string & path, const JSON & ptree)
    {
        std::ostringstream oss;
        bpt::write_json(oss, ptree);
        std::regex reg("\\\"([0-9]+\\.{0,1}[0-9]*)\\\"");
        std::string result = std::regex_replace(oss.str(), reg, "$1");

        std::ofstream file;
        file.open(path);
        file << result;
        file.close();
    }
} }

Hope that helps.