Handling decimal values in Newtonsoft.Json

Question

Edit: It\'s been almost 5 years and I don\'t think this is the way to go. The client should post the data in the correct numerical format. With current fram

Answer 1

You can handle both formats (the JSON number representation and the masked string format) using a custom JsonConverter class like this.

class DecimalConverter : JsonConverter
{
    public override bool CanConvert(Type objectType)
    {
        return (objectType == typeof(decimal) || objectType == typeof(decimal?));
    }

    public override object ReadJson(JsonReader reader, Type objectType, object existingValue, JsonSerializer serializer)
    {
        JToken token = JToken.Load(reader);
        if (token.Type == JTokenType.Float || token.Type == JTokenType.Integer)
        {
            return token.ToObject();
        }
        if (token.Type == JTokenType.String)
        {
            // customize this to suit your needs
            return Decimal.Parse(token.ToString(), 
                   System.Globalization.CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("es-ES"));
        }
        if (token.Type == JTokenType.Null && objectType == typeof(decimal?))
        {
            return null;
        }
        throw new JsonSerializationException("Unexpected token type: " + 
                                              token.Type.ToString());
    }

    public override void WriteJson(JsonWriter writer, object value, JsonSerializer serializer)
    {
        throw new NotImplementedException();
    }
}

To plug this into your binder, just add an instance of the converter to the Converters list in the JsonSerializerSettings object:

JsonSerializerSettings settings = new JsonSerializerSettings
{
    NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore,
    MissingMemberHandling = MissingMemberHandling.Ignore,
    Formatting = Formatting.None,
    DateFormatHandling = DateFormatHandling.IsoDateFormat,
    Converters = new List { new DecimalConverter() }
};