Stringified.ts

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/**
 * Some APIs will return values such as numbers also as a string (notably epoch timestamps). This behavior
 * is used to capture this behavior while keeping the semantics of the field type.
 *
 * Depending on the target language, code generators can keep the union or remove it and leniently parse
 * strings to the target type.
 */
export type Stringified<T> = T | string