MongoDB or Perl Data type?

Alle has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a question

I used perl's mongodb driver MongoDB(0.45),I insert a integer:

begin code-----------------
use MongoDB;
use MongoDB::OID;
my $conn = MongoDB::Connection->new();
my $db = $conn->test;
$db->id->insert({"id1"=>1,"id2"=>2});
end code-------------------
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On the mongo shell,i found the "id1" and "id2" become:

> "id1" : NumberLong(1),"id2" : NumberLong(2)
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But i want :

"id1" : 1,"id2":2
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Who can help me,thks? my os is 64 bit and mongodb version is v1.8.1

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Re: MongoDB or Perl Data type? by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Aug 21, 2012 at 19:22 UTC
Cross-posted to http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Data+Types+and+Conventions	[reply]
Re^2: MongoDB or Perl Data type? by Alle (Novice) on Aug 22, 2012 at 02:49 UTC
thank you,but no answer. the driver's author Kristina reply me with: 'This is intentional, Perl saves all numbers as 64-bit integers on 64-bit platforms, and NumberLong is how the shell displays 64-bit numbers. See http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Overview+-+The+MongoDB+Interactive+Shell#Overview-TheMongoDBInteractiveShell-Numbers.' insert number using mongodb shell is ok,it just a basic number,but use perl driver MongoDB,it became NumberLong(*) ,who can help me?	[reply]
Re^3: MongoDB or Perl Data type? by Anonymous Monk on Aug 22, 2012 at 02:59 UTC
thank you,but no answer. the driver's author Kristina reply me with: 'This is intentional, Perl saves all numbers as 64-bit integers on 64-bit platforms, and NumberLong is how the shell displays 64-bit numbers. See http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Overview+-+The+MongoDB+Interactive+Shell#Overview-TheMongoDBInteractiveShell-Numbers.' insert number using mongodb shell is ok,it just a basic number,but use perl driver MongoDB,it became NumberLong(*) ,who can help me? I think you just got your answer, there is nothing you can do about it (short of writing your own MongoDB driver)	[reply]
Re: MongoDB or Perl Data type? by Anonymous Monk on Aug 21, 2012 at 09:43 UTC
But i want Why? How do you know you can control that?	[reply]
Re^2: MongoDB or Perl Data type? by Alle (Novice) on Aug 21, 2012 at 10:44 UTC
...... How Control?	[reply]
Re^3: MongoDB or Perl Data type? by Anonymous Monk on Aug 22, 2012 at 02:53 UTC
...... How Control? How do you know that you can? That its possible? Allowed? A feature? Can be done? Do you understand my question now? Looking how to do something, without knowing if its at all possible, seems like a large waste of time to me	[reply]