Global StringEnumConverter no longer respected

When applying the Newtonsoft.Json StringEnumConverter globally in an ASP.NET Core 3.1 application by doing the following:

services.AddControllers().AddNewtonsoftJson(options => options.SerializerSettings.Converters.Add(new StringEnumConverter()));

NSwag no longer generates the enum members as strings as it used to. If, however, the StringEnumConverter is specified directly on an enum like this:

[JsonConverter(typeof(StringEnumConverter))]
public enum MyEnum
...

It works as expected.

This issue was introduced at some point after version 13.1.5 (currently tested on 13.2.1).

I’ve created a small test application to reproduce the issue here: https://github.com/Sharparam/nswag-stringenum-test

Simply clone down the repo, build it in Release configuration, and run NSwag with the included nswag.json configuration.

[RicoSuter]

[ThomasBaechlerConti]

After integrating nswag generation into the build process, I suffer from the same problem. I use aspNetCoreToOpenApi with assemblyPaths.

The only workaround I found so far is annotating every enum with

[JsonConverter(typeof(StringEnumConverter))]