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Date objects converted to strings

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby

Research direction

Start by reading the linked fluent-plugin-mongo issue and tracing how this Ruby logger serializes values before sending them to Fluent. Define the expected date representation and verify that Ruby Date objects arrive at Fluent as dates rather than strings; the issue names no files or tests.

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Description

Is there a way we can allow Ruby date objects to get passed through to Fluent as dates as opposed to strings? See comment from this thread:

https://github.com/fluent/fluent-plugin-mongo/issues/18

Dominant language
Ruby
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Forks
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