msgpack renderer behaves too differently from the builtin json renderer

[gjcarneiro]

This project encodes Decimal like this:

        elif isinstance(obj, decimal.Decimal):
            return {'__class__': 'decimal', 'as_str': str(obj)}

While DRF json renderer encodes Decimal like this:

        elif isinstance(obj, decimal.Decimal):
            # Serializers will coerce decimals to strings by default.
            return float(obj)

I think it is a terrible idea that they behave so differently, since it means you cannot easily switch from json to msgpack. I just tried to change, and it completely breaks my client.

[juanriaza]

@gjcarneiro thanks for checking this annoyance. I'm looking into this as soon as I find some spare time.

[juanriaza]

@gjcarneiro looks like it was that way at the point that the library was created.