Override Json deserializing a number with a leading zero as a decimal and not an octal value

Question

I am generating a json object,

{
   \"number\":0100
}

When this object is deserialized in C# using Newtonsoft.Json, 0100 i

Answer 1

I've looked at JsonTextReader.ParseNumber() (the method where the "magic" of number reading happen). I'll say that it isn't doable. The octal case is especially handled

bool flag2 = c == '0' ...

and then

long value2 = text2.StartsWith("0x", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) ? 
                  Convert.ToInt64(text2, 16) : 
                  Convert.ToInt64(text2, 8); // Here OCTAL!!!

I haven't found any way to override this method (other than re-writing all the Read() method that does everything in Json parsing)