> switching away from a library that used to generate some JSON for me, for integration with another tool > I guess I need to generate the JSON myself now > oh whew, the tool's code contains a JSON schema, I can just follow that > ...??? the tool doesn't like me, wuh > look at the library > it serializes a field as an integer even though the schema says it should be a string > I update my code to do the same > everything works smh #programming