symfony
diff --git a/‎src/Symfony/Component/Serializer/Normalizer/AbstractObjectNormalizer.php
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diff --git a/‎src/Symfony/Component/Serializer/Tests/Normalizer/ObjectNormalizerTest.php
Lines changed: 23 additions & 5 deletions b/‎src/Symfony/Component/Serializer/Tests/Normalizer/ObjectNormalizerTest.php
Lines changed: 23 additions & 5 deletions
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 namespace Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer;
 
 use Symfony\Component\PropertyAccess\Exception\InvalidArgumentException;
+use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Encoder\JsonEncoder;
 use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Exception\CircularReferenceException;
 use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Exception\LogicException;
 use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Exception\UnexpectedValueException;
@@ -260,6 +261,16 @@ private function validateAndDenormalize($currentClass, $attribute, $data, $forma
                 }
             }
 
+            // JSON only has a Number type corresponding to both int and float PHP types.
+            // PHP's json_encode, JavaScript's JSON.stringify, Go's json.Marshal as well as most other JSON encoders convert
+            // floating-point numbers like 12.0 to 12 (the decimal part is dropped when possible).
+            // PHP's json_decode automatically converts Numbers without a decimal part to integers.
+            // To circumvent this behavior, integers are converted to floats when denormalizing JSON based formats and when
+            // a float is expected.
+            if (Type::BUILTIN_TYPE_FLOAT === $builtinType && is_int($data) && false !== strpos($format, JsonEncoder::FORMAT)) {
+                return (float) $data;
+            }
+
             if (call_user_func('is_'.$builtinType, $data)) {
                 return $data;
             }
 
@@ -537,11 +537,21 @@ public function testDenomalizeRecursive()
             'inners' => array(array('foo' => 1), array('foo' => 2)),
         ), ObjectOuter::class);
 
-        $this->assertEquals('foo', $obj->getInner()->foo);
-        $this->assertEquals('bar', $obj->getInner()->bar);
-        $this->assertEquals('1988-01-21', $obj->getDate()->format('Y-m-d'));
-        $this->assertEquals(1, $obj->getInners()[0]->foo);
-        $this->assertEquals(2, $obj->getInners()[1]->foo);
+        $this->assertSame('foo', $obj->getInner()->foo);
+        $this->assertSame('bar', $obj->getInner()->bar);
+        $this->assertSame('1988-01-21', $obj->getDate()->format('Y-m-d'));
+        $this->assertSame(1, $obj->getInners()[0]->foo);
+        $this->assertSame(2, $obj->getInners()[1]->foo);
+    }
+
+    public function testAcceptJsonNumber()
+    {
+        $extractor = new PropertyInfoExtractor(array(), array(new PhpDocExtractor(), new ReflectionExtractor()));
+        $normalizer = new ObjectNormalizer(null, null, null, $extractor);
+        $serializer = new Serializer(array(new ArrayDenormalizer(), new DateTimeNormalizer(), $normalizer));
+
+        $this->assertSame(10.0, $serializer->denormalize(array('number' => 10), JsonNumber::class, 'json')->number);
+        $this->assertSame(10.0, $serializer->denormalize(array('number' => 10), JsonNumber::class, 'jsonld')->number);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -820,3 +830,11 @@ protected function isAllowedAttribute($classOrObject, $attribute, $format = null
         return false;
     }
 }
+
+class JsonNumber
+{
+    /**
+     * @var float
+     */
+    public $number;
+}