#357: support more type-rich JSON formatting.
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 Reporter:  jesus        |       Owner:  jesus   
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new     
 Priority:  major        |   Milestone:          
Component:  noitd        |    Severity:  annoying
 Keywords:               |  
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 The lusa remson module supports pulling XML DTD over http/https as well as
 JSON.  However, the JSON is a bit naive and is painfully limited to type
 inference based on the ability to convert.  This means that integers over
 2^53^ must be placed in strings and the module just guess that they should
 be integers.  Also, if null values are returned, the type is often guessed
 wrong.  For JSON, we wish to alter the parsing process as follows:

    * {{{_type}}} is now a reserved word, you cannot have a key named _type
 as metric
    * {{{_value}}} is now a reserved word, you cannot have a key named
 _value as a metric
    * any javascript object that contains both {{{_type}}} and {{{_value}}}
 will set the parent key to a metric of a type equal that specified at the
 {{{_type}}} key and value equal to the value at the {{{_value}}} key.

 {{{
  {"foo":{"Test":{"_type":"L","_value":"9223372036854775908"}}}
 }}}

 Will result in a single metric:

 {{{
  foo`Test[L] = 9223372036854775908
 }}}

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