Proposal: encoding/json: add new tag for numbers to be string or number literals for unmarshalling

[b-s-a]

Current implementation of json decoder (1.7) requires numbers be integers or strings only if string tag specified. Most web oriented languages (php for example) has no difference between types, so json produced by them can contain integers/floats/booleans as strings.
I suggest to create new tag which permits numbers as strings and ints at same time.
Example:

struct {
    X int `json:"x,maystring"`
}

Can be unmarshalled from {"x":"1234"} and {"x":1234}

[vcabbage]

You can already handle this by implementing the json.Unmarshaler interface or using the json.Number type. Example: https://play.golang.org/p/HGXCF0Bp1X

[bradfitz]

Closing since solutions already exist, and the json package is increasingly frozen for changes.