Temporal workflow describe can't parse json result

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when running temporal workflow describe or temporal workflow query the json result causes the the temporal CLI to output an error similar to this (the temporal UI is able to display the object fine, it’s not a big object):

Execution Info:
  WorkflowId            c3fc3c77-8c06-44db-b7ff-ed9fb88b322c
  RunId                 1b5e98d9-3d97-4991-af9e-08b9cb3ef029
  Type                  MyWorkflow
  Namespace             default
  TaskQueue             default
  StartTime             16 minutes ago
  CloseTime             14 minutes ago
  ExecutionTime         16 minutes ago
  SearchAttributes      map[BuildIds:metadata:{key:"encoding"  value:"json/plain"}  metadata:{key:"type"  value:"KeywordList"}  data:"[\"unversioned\"]"]
  StateTransitionCount  31
  HistoryLength         47
  HistorySize           222415

Results:
  RunTime  1m24.31s
  Status   COMPLETED
  Result   <failed converting to string: json: error calling MarshalJSON for type json.RawMessage: invalid character ':' after object key:value pair>

The query returns the same object and it also emits the same error:

Query result:
  QueryResult  <failed converting to string: json: error calling MarshalJSON for type json.RawMessage: invalid character ':' after object key:value pair>
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I’ve had to resort to using --no-json-shorthand-payloads to get the base64 encoded string and decode it to json myself. The object is not a complicated object. but there’s a null value for one of the keys. seems to work fine for other payloads.

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Thanks! We have fixed this in Fix shorthand payload marshaling when `null` is present by tdeebswihart · Pull Request #159 · temporalio/api-go · GitHub but have not rolled out a new CLI version with this fix yet. Will look into doing so soon. I have opened [Feature Request] Update Go API · Issue #562 · temporalio/cli · GitHub.