Number types don't work properly in JSON data files

[nathnolt]

I have a simple data file like this:

userdata.json

[
	{
		"name": "John doe",
		"salary": 300
	},
	{
		"name": "Frank foobar",
		"salary": 500
	},
	{
		"name": "Rick foobar",
		"salary": 400
	}
]

and in my layout I'm doing

{{where .Site.Data.userdata "salary" "<" 500 }}

The output is [] but the expected output is [map[salary:300 name:John doe] map[name:Rick foobar salary:400]]

If I have the same thing as a yaml file

---
- name: John doe
  salary: 300
- name: Frank foobar
  salary: 500
- name: Rick foobar
  salary: 400

It does give me the expected output of [map[salary:300 name:John doe] map[name:Rick foobar salary:400]]

I'm not quite proficient in Hugo or go html/templates, so excuse me if this issue has been posted already, but I couldn't find it with my current knowledge.

>hugo version output

Hugo Static Site Generator v0.54.0-B1A82C61 windows/amd64 BuildDate: 2019-02-01T09:42:02Z

[tryzniak]

Nice find! It's definitely a bug. Try using {{where .Site.Data.userdata "salary" "<" 500.0 }} (notice 500.0) and it works as expected.

[nathnolt]

Will do, thanks.

[bep]

Yes, we should handle this. I can guess about why this is happening:

• The JSON decoder (the one that gets shipped with Go) treats all numbers as floats (float64), which I guess does not compare well to an integer in your example (it should)
• YAML and TOML has a more diverse number type gallery.

[bep]

You could try:

{{where .Site.Data.userdata "salary" "<" 500.0 }}

And see what that gets you.

[nathnolt]

Yeah That works.
Thanks for your time.

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