Newtonsoft JSON- Conversion to/from DataSet causes Decimal to become Double?

Question

I'm using Newtonsoft JSON to serialize a DataSet to binary JSON using the code below. When de-serializing back to a DataSet, the field type changes from a Decimal to a Double? Does anybody know what's going wrong?

Sample code:

static void Main(string[] args)
{
  var ds = new DataSet();
  var dt = ds.Tables.Add();
  dt.Columns.Add("Test", typeof(Decimal));
  dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 1.23345M });

  var data = DataSetToBinJSON(ds);

  var ds2 = BinJSONToDataSet(data);
  Console.WriteLine((ds2.Tables[0].Columns[0].DataType == typeof(Decimal)) ? "Passed" : string.Format("Failed- {0}", ds2.Tables[0].Columns[0].DataType));
  Console.ReadLine();
}



/// <summary>
/// Utility function to create an optimized Binary JSON version of a DataSet
/// </summary>
public static byte[] DataSetToBinJSON(DataSet dataSet)
{
  if (dataSet == null || dataSet.Tables == null || dataSet.Tables.Count == 0)
  {
    return null;
  }

  using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
  {
    using (var writer = new BsonWriter(ms))
    {
      var serializer = new JsonSerializer();
      serializer.Serialize(writer, dataSet);
      return ms.ToArray();
    }
  }
}


/// <summary>
/// Utility function to deserialize an optimized Binary JSON serialized DataSet
/// </summary>   
public static DataSet BinJSONToDataSet(byte[] dataBytes)
{
  if (dataBytes.Length == 0)
  {
    return null;
  }

  using (var ms = new MemoryStream(dataBytes))
  {
    using (var reader = new BsonReader(ms))
    {
      var serializer = new JsonSerializer();
      return serializer.Deserialize<DataSet>(reader);
    }
  }
}

Answer 1

Easy way to fix this set FloatParseHandling = FloatParseHandling.Decimal

Example:

    public class Foo
    {
        public object Value { get; set; }
    }

    Foo original = new Foo
        {
            Value = 1.23m
        };

    string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(original);

    var settings = new JsonSerializerSettings
        {
            FloatParseHandling = FloatParseHandling.Decimal //hint
        };
    Foo actual = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Foo>(json, settings);

    // actual.Value.GetType() == 'Decimal'