Samuel Bandara

Since the API specification says > If this member's value does not represent a JSON number or if it cannot be interpreted as Java `long`, an exception is thrown. So...

I meant to refer to the API specification, but the issue you point out is even more subtle than that. The more obvious problem with replacing the JSON literal `null`...

Maybe you can convince Ralf to change the API specification slightly such that `getLong` and its siblings return the default value not only when `get` returns `null` but also for...

Since we don't require the customized AGE aligner anymore, can we close this issue here and advise reopening on AGE?