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When creating a client it would be nice to be able to use a mock version of the client, which upon point insertion would write the serialized lines to stdout or some other file output. This would be very helpful for testing and also debugging of systems that could make sure that their output is correct before populating a database

Currently, there is no difference between float and integer data types when exporting fields values via InfluxDB line protocol. It means, for example, that float 5 and integer 5 will look the same:

myMeasurement floatField=5,integerField=5

As a result, in InfluxDB they both will be treated as floats so won't be as efficient as possible.

InfluxDB documentation says that integer field values should have the i suffix to be treated as integers eventually:

Signed 64-bit integers.
Trailing i on the number specifies an integer.

See for details: Integer

So I propose to fix integer data type exporting and use the i suffix in the Line protocol.

The example above with this change will look like this:

myMeasurement floatField=5,integerField=5i