From 1960191d688392c4b3aeec29e6d3e64e33f684a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: fjtirado <ftirados@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:26:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Supporting stringified json

Signed-off-by: fjtirado <ftirados@redhat.com>
---
 .../impl/model/jackson/JacksonModel.java                   | 2 +-
 .../impl/model/jackson/JacksonModelFactory.java            | 7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/impl/model/src/main/java/io/serverlessworkflow/impl/model/jackson/JacksonModel.java b/impl/model/src/main/java/io/serverlessworkflow/impl/model/jackson/JacksonModel.java
index 5a91c5db2..91e591163 100644
--- a/impl/model/src/main/java/io/serverlessworkflow/impl/model/jackson/JacksonModel.java
+++ b/impl/model/src/main/java/io/serverlessworkflow/impl/model/jackson/JacksonModel.java
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ public Collection<WorkflowModel> asCollection() {
 
   @Override
   public Optional<String> asText() {
-    return node.isTextual() ? Optional.of(node.asText()) : Optional.empty();
+    return node.isTextual() ? Optional.of(node.asText()) : Optional.of(node.toString());
   }
 
   @Override
diff --git a/impl/model/src/main/java/io/serverlessworkflow/impl/model/jackson/JacksonModelFactory.java b/impl/model/src/main/java/io/serverlessworkflow/impl/model/jackson/JacksonModelFactory.java
index 810207618..8b01935e5 100644
--- a/impl/model/src/main/java/io/serverlessworkflow/impl/model/jackson/JacksonModelFactory.java
+++ b/impl/model/src/main/java/io/serverlessworkflow/impl/model/jackson/JacksonModelFactory.java
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
  */
 package io.serverlessworkflow.impl.model.jackson;
 
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.DoubleNode;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.FloatNode;
@@ -86,7 +87,11 @@ public WorkflowModel from(Number number) {
 
   @Override
   public WorkflowModel from(String value) {
-    return new JacksonModel(new TextNode(value));
+    try {
+      return new JacksonModel(JsonUtils.mapper().readTree(value));
+    } catch (JsonProcessingException ex) {
+      return new JacksonModel(new TextNode(value));
+    }
   }
 
   @Override