Merge pull request #5504 from crobibero/json-string-converter

2 files changed, 41 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/MediaBrowser.Common/Json/Converters/JsonStringConverter.cs b/MediaBrowser.Common/Json/Converters/JsonStringConverter.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..669b3cd07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MediaBrowser.Common/Json/Converters/JsonStringConverter.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+using System;
+using System.Buffers;
+using System.Text;
+using System.Text.Json;
+using System.Text.Json.Serialization;
+
+namespace MediaBrowser.Common.Json.Converters
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Converter to allow the serializer to read strings.
+    /// </summary>
+    public class JsonStringConverter : JsonConverter<string>
+    {
+        /// <inheritdoc />
+        public override string Read(ref Utf8JsonReader reader, Type typeToConvert, JsonSerializerOptions options)
+        {
+            return reader.TokenType switch
+            {
+                JsonTokenType.Null => null,
+                JsonTokenType.String => reader.GetString(),
+                _ => GetRawValue(reader)
+            };
+        }
+
+        /// <inheritdoc />
+        public override void Write(Utf8JsonWriter writer, string value, JsonSerializerOptions options)
+        {
+            writer.WriteStringValue(value);
+        }
+
+        private static string GetRawValue(Utf8JsonReader reader)
+        {
+            var utf8Bytes = reader.HasValueSequence
+                ? reader.ValueSequence.ToArray()
+                : reader.ValueSpan;
+            return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(utf8Bytes);
+        }
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/MediaBrowser.Common/Json/JsonDefaults.cs b/MediaBrowser.Common/Json/JsonDefaults.cs
index 177ad39fa..405d6125f 100644
--- a/MediaBrowser.Common/Json/JsonDefaults.cs
+++ b/MediaBrowser.Common/Json/JsonDefaults.cs
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Common.Json
                 new JsonStringEnumConverter(),
                 new JsonNullableStructConverterFactory(),
                 new JsonBoolNumberConverter(),
-                new JsonDateTimeConverter()
+                new JsonDateTimeConverter(),
+                new JsonStringConverter()
             }
         };