preventing decimals from being coerced to strings in rest_framework API

config/settings/base.py

@@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ REST_FRAMEWORK = {
     'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': (
         'events.api.backends.LigoAuthentication',
     ),
+    'COERCE_DECIMAL_TO_STRING': False,
 }
 
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