Allow reading numeric values in the JSON body for string properties like ProductPrice (Numeric(10,2)) in POST requests to the Product service. (#1112)

Author: claudiamurialdo

dotnet/src/dotnetcore/GxNetCoreStartup/Startup.cs

@@ -281,6 +281,13 @@ private void RegisterControllerAssemblies(IMvcBuilder mvcBuilder)
 			{
 				mvcBuilder.AddJsonOptions(options => options.JsonSerializerOptions.PropertyNameCaseInsensitive = false);
 			}
+
+			mvcBuilder.AddJsonOptions(options =>
+			{
+				options.JsonSerializerOptions.NumberHandling = System.Text.Json.Serialization.JsonNumberHandling.AllowReadingFromString;
+				options.JsonSerializerOptions.Converters.Add(new StringConverter());
+			});
+
 			mvcBuilder.ConfigureApiBehaviorOptions(options =>
 			{
 				options.InvalidModelStateResponseFactory = context =>

dotnet/src/dotnetframework/GxClasses/Domain/GxCollections.cs

@@ -3119,5 +3119,26 @@ public override void Write(Utf8JsonWriter writer, bool value, JsonSerializerOpti
 			writer.WriteBooleanValue(value);
 		}
 	}
+	public class StringConverter : JsonConverter<string>
+	{
+		public override string Read(ref Utf8JsonReader reader, Type typeToConvert, JsonSerializerOptions options)
+		{
+			if (reader.TokenType == JsonTokenType.Number)
+			{
+				if (reader.TryGetInt32(out int l))
+					return l.ToString();
+				else if (reader.TryGetDecimal(out decimal d))
+					return d.ToString();
+				else
+					return reader.GetDouble().ToString();
+			}
+			return reader.GetString();
+		}
+
+		public override void Write(Utf8JsonWriter writer, string value, JsonSerializerOptions options)
+		{
+			writer.WriteStringValue(value);
+		}
+	}
 #endif
 }