Cache Memory only works with numbers about benthos

[mihaitodor]

Hey @danriedl 👋 It's by design. Values in caches are stored as bytes, so this will throw an error if the data it gets isn't something that can be parsed using a JSON parser. What you want to use there is root.name = content().string(). The .string() part is needed because otherwise the data in that name field will get serialised back to JSON using base64 encoding.

[mihaitodor]

Hey @danriedl 👋 It's by design. Values in caches are stored as bytes, so this will throw an error if the data it gets isn't something that can be parsed using a JSON parser. What you want to use there is root.name = content().string(). The .string() part is needed because otherwise the data in that name field will get serialised back to JSON using base64 encoding.

PS: Converting this to a discussion as per #2026.