Meltano

My API endpoint returns a few numbers/ints as json strings like `{"value":"12.6"}` ; doesn’t look like setting the schema to NumberType try to cast that and it’s exporting as a string. That’s really the only modification of the response that needs to be done. What’s a good method to handle that?

<https://github.com/meltano/sdk/blob/7f2df99148e28a65a5dd53f915041fe8f652b03f/singer_sdk/helpers/_typing.py#L349|Github comments> seem to suggest it should be cast appropriately already/recursively. Humm

Using the post process step I was able to do a `row["myfield"] = float(row["myfield"])` ; is there a better way? It’s of th.NumberType but wasn’t being converted automatically.

I'd leave it as a string if that's how the API is giving you the data. 

Yes post process is a good spot for transformations. Converting to float is not precise, converting to a numeric is more but I wouldn't do that in the tap

If you absolutely want the value to be serialized as a float in the tap's output, you can use `post_process` to cast it to a <https://docs.python.org/3/library/decimal.html#decimal.Decimal|decimal.Decimal>.