(Question) Which kind of values can the distance string from geoSearchWith have?

[AndreVelde]

Description

Wanted to update to the latest major version and saw that when using the method geoSearchWith the distance field it returns changed from a number to a string type. Only now wonder what kind of string format I now have to deal with and how to parse it back to a number format.

For clarification this is the way I call this method:
const locations = await this.client.geoSearchWith( redisKey, { latitude: userPosition.latitude, longitude: userPosition.longitude, }, { radius: radius, unit: 'm', }, [GEO_REPLY_WITH.DISTANCE, GEO_REPLY_WITH.COORDINATES], { SORT: 'ASC' }, );

[nkaradzhov]

Hi @AndreVelde,
The server returns the distance as a string, and we dont do any additional parsing. I think this behavior is the same in v4.
You can just parse it as a number.

In general, I think its a good idea for the library to provide idiomatic responses, so we may look to make this change at some point.

[nkaradzhov]

@AndreVelde sorry, just spotted that v4 is actually typing this as a number. This was actually a bug because in reality, the distance was always coming as a string from server and v4 didnt parse it. So, to summarize:

	type	reality
v4	number	string
v5	string	string

[AndreVelde]

Ah thanks for the explanation!