From 1d5cfac278192924542f3e80922b467479f8e9e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Willmer <alex@moreati.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 09:24:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] How about JSON?

---
 AnsibleUnsafe-notes.rest | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/AnsibleUnsafe-notes.rest b/AnsibleUnsafe-notes.rest
index b5a3d55..609c604 100644
--- a/AnsibleUnsafe-notes.rest
+++ b/AnsibleUnsafe-notes.rest
@@ -212,3 +212,16 @@ Informed guesses of rules/design principals
 - All templating should/does happen on the controller (80% sure).
 - Ansible targets cannot/should not try to mark a value as safe or unsafe.
   The controller couldn't trust that determination anyway.
+
+Ideas
+-----
+
+Could the current dispatch table/`isinstance()` approach be replaced by a
+roundtrip through JSON? E.g.
+
+.. code::
+
+    def cast(obj):
+        return json.loads(json.dumps(obj))
+
+Would it be faster/slower?