change search value type to object

Author: ddidgdimitrov-infragistics

Model/QueryFilter.cs

@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-using System.Text.Json.Nodes;
-
-namespace Infragistics.QueryBuilder.Executor
+namespace Infragistics.QueryBuilder.Executor
 {
     public class QueryFilter
     {
@@ -11,7 +9,7 @@ public class QueryFilter
 
         public QueryFilterCondition? Condition { get; set; }
 
-        public JsonValue? SearchVal { get; set; }
+        public object? SearchVal { get; set; }
 
         public Query? SearchTree { get; set; }
 

QueryExecutor.cs

@@ -257,8 +257,14 @@ private static IEnumerable<dynamic> RunSubquery(DbContext db, Query? query)
             return property.GetMemberValue(obj);
         }
 
-        private static Expression GetSearchValue(JsonValue? jsonVal, Type targetType)
+        private static Expression GetSearchValue(object? searchValue, Type targetType)
         {
+            if (searchValue == null)
+            {
+                return GetEmptyValue(targetType);
+            }
+
+            var jsonVal = JsonValue.Create(searchValue);
             var valueKind = jsonVal?.GetValueKind();
             if (valueKind == null || valueKind == JsonValueKind.Null || valueKind == JsonValueKind.Undefined)
             {