question Nifi AttributesToJSON makes everything strings in Support Questions

question Nifi AttributesToJSON makes everything strings in Support Questions https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Nifi-AttributesToJSON-makes-everything-strings/m-p/283555#M210739 I have JSON messages in the flowfiles, and I'm putting a subset of the JSON elements into attributes using EvaluateJSONPath.   The issue is that when I use AttributesToJSON, all the elements get wrapped in quotes, so the JSON fields that are/were arrays now are just strings that happen to have square brackets in them, and quotes around the strings in the array are escaped.   How do I preserve the "non-stringiness" of my JSON through these operations?   Input JSON:   <LI-CODE lang="python">{"customer_id": 1234567, "vckey_list": ["test value"]}</LI-CODE>     I pull both of those fields into attributes using EvaluateJSONPath, and then user AttributesToJSON with content-flowfile and this is the output.   Obviously the strings within the array are escaped because the array itself is quoted, as is the thing that was a number.   Output JSON after 2 operations:   <LI-CODE lang="python">{"customer_id": "1234567", "vckey_list": "[\"test value\"]"}</LI-CODE>     My desired output would be identical to the original.     <LI-CODE lang="python">{"customer_id": 1234567, "vckey_list": ["test value"]}</LI-CODE>     I'm sure I've missed something simple to make these operations commute. Thu, 21 Nov 2019 06:36:29 GMT craignelson7007 2019-11-21T06:36:29Z