Just When I Think I’m Out — They Pull me Back in!
I thought I had this particular problem with The Broker solved - saving and loading lists to and from mongoDB using the emongo client - but I was wrong. Turns out, I can do it with lists of strings, but not with lists of integers. Something to do with the pattern matching in the erlang code.
What I did was to put in the more overt conversions and then both types of saves and loads worked. I'm just hoping that as my test cases get more complete, it really starts to equate to fewer bugs... but I have my doubts. This is just so frustrating. But it has to be done.