Same property, pick one of two different types - is that possible?

[mihilion]

I am consuming third party endpoint, which is not consistent about the type of field - once I get "width"=100.0, another time I get "width"=100. Is it possible to have DTO with two separate fields (Integer widthAsInteger; Double widthAsDouble), and deserialize input without losing the information about the type of the value, so that I can serialize it back to the same type?

I was trying to deserialize it as String, and then have two getters parsing it as double or integer, and have one of them to return null, but even when I combine it with @JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL I still get a conflict between these two getters.

[mihilion]

I have used Java type Number for this field, which solved my problem.