number type should accept valid number passed in string

[abhiptl]

Open API Spec as number type and most of the programming language convert into some numeric type(in java it is BigDecimal) which are capable of converting valid number into respective target data type.

But, open API spec document says below

Note that strings containing numbers, such as “17”, are considered strings and not numbers.

I want to understand if we should remove above line or that is expectation?

[handrews]

@abhiptl this is part of JSON Schema rather than OpenAPI. JSON (and therefore JSON Schema) do not define type conversions or coercions. If you want to use numbers from strings (which is a good way to get around floating point and other limitations of JSON's number type), you use something like "type": "string", "format": "int64" (see the format registry for what formats can be used, and what limitations might be present in support).