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@gewarren gewarren commented Nov 6, 2021

Fixes #26771

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I had one nit, otherwise looks good to me, :shipit: when you're ready.

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# JsonNumberHandlingAttribute on collection properties

A minor breaking change was introduced in .NET 6 with regard to the <xref:System.Text.Json.Serialization.JsonNumberHandlingAttribute> attribute. If you apply the attribute to a property that's a collection of non-number values and attempt to serialize or deserialize the property, an <xref:System.InvalidOperationException> is thrown. The attribute is only valid for properties that are collections of number types, for example:
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A minor breaking change was introduced in .NET 6 with regard to the <xref:System.Text.Json.Serialization.JsonNumberHandlingAttribute> attribute. If you apply the attribute to a property that's a collection of non-number values and attempt to serialize or deserialize the property, an <xref:System.InvalidOperationException> is thrown. The attribute is only valid for properties that are collections of number types, for example:
A breaking change was introduced in .NET 6 with regard to the <xref:System.Text.Json.Serialization.JsonNumberHandlingAttribute> attribute. If you apply the attribute to a property that's a collection of non-number values and attempt to serialize or deserialize the property, an <xref:System.InvalidOperationException> is thrown. The attribute is only valid for properties that are collections of number types, for example:

I'm not sure it's a good idea to classify this as a "minor" breaking change. Any one who had code in place before that used this attribute in this way, would now experience an exception. It's still a breaking change, even though it may not affect as many consumers.

@IEvangelist IEvangelist merged commit df079a7 into dotnet:main Nov 8, 2021
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[Breaking change]: [JsonNumberHandling] on collection of non-number properties

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