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Numbers converted into scientific notation are not considered valid numbers

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
openapi, python
Domain
api

Research direction

Start by reproducing validation against the linked nodenormalization-sri OpenAPI document, focusing on the pvalue_threshold default value and its 1e-06 representation. Read the related openapi-spec-validator issue #115 for context, then verify that the document validates while preserving the intended numeric value.

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Description

The property pvalue_threshold in https://nodenormalization-sri.renci.org/openapi.json fails validation because the default value (0.000001) is converted into scientific notation in Python (1e-06), which is judged to not be a valid number (Could not validate OpenAPI at https://nodenormalization-sri.renci.org/openapi.json: '1e-06' is not of type 'number'). Is there any way to work around this?

May be related to https://github.com/python-openapi/openapi-spec-validator/issues/115

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