JSON to Bencode issues?

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Hello @jzelinskie

I've been working with the JSON to Bencode conversion, but there are things that don't seem to make sense to me. I was looking at how your tool handled things such as null values or booleans when converting to bencode (that doesn't have those types) and this is what came up.

$ faq -n -f json -o bencode '[1,null,2]'
l1:11:2e

# Why are integers converted to strings??? And I thought that null values would be converted to an empty string, for instance. Here they just disappear... which would mess up the length of the list.

$ faq -n -f json -o bencode '{a:null}'
de

# Entire pairs disappearing, although it could make some degree of sense

$  faq -n -f json -o bencode '[true,false]'
li1ei0ee

# Ok now that is something I expected

Now... is there a way to choose how these conversions take place, for instance how a false in JSON would convert to Bencode, for instance as an empty string rather than a 0?

Thanks in advance