Store MMSI identifier as strings with leading zeros (#6) #9
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As stated by @ajakz (#6 ), a MMSI identifier is a 9-digit number - which ALWAYS has 9 digits and therefore can not be stored as a native int.
I firstly thought about adding the option to enable/disable this feature in order to not break with the current API. But after a bit of research I decided make a break and store MMSI's as strings from now on. The reasons for that are:
123 != "00123"
)This means that you might need to update your code, if you want to use the lib from now on.