[EhsanAzish80]

Fixes #277. JSON strings that look like data URLs now stay strings, so tool text is preserved when it passes through Value. This is an independently tested alternative to #278.

Tests: 554 Swift tests passed locally. AI was used to write the tests. I ran them locally.

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This fixes the accidental data-URL coercion, but it also makes the public Value.data case non-round-trippable through its own Codable conformance.

Value.data still encodes as a plain data-URL string:

case let .data(mimeType, value):
    try container.encode(value.dataURLEncoded(mimeType: mimeType))

while this PR now decodes every JSON string as .string. So:

let original = Value.data(mimeType: "application/octet-stream", Data([0, 1, 2]))
let decoded = try JSONDecoder().decode(Value.self, from: JSONEncoder().encode(original))

changes type from .data to .string. The new test explicitly codifies that asymmetry.

If generic JSON strings must never be auto-promoted to binary (which makes sense), could Value.data use an explicit tagged representation for encoding/decoding, or otherwise be removed/documented as non-Codable-lossless? As it stands, persistence or forwarding of a Value.data through JSON silently loses the enum case.

AI-assisted review; checked the current PR head and Value Codable paths before posting.

[EhsanAzish80]

I kept JSON strings as strings and documented that Value.data is not lossless through generic JSON decoding. The new test shows how to recover the bytes with Data.parseDataURL. All 554 Swift tests passed locally. AI helped write the test; I ran it. Could a maintainer review this choice and approve CI?

[varun06]

Hi @EhsanAzish80, thanks for this PR! I've reviewed it and it looks good to merge.

Could you please rebase it onto the latest main? CI was broken on macOS runners for every PR (a toolchain/SDK mismatch, fixed in #306), so rebasing will pick up the fix and give us a green run. I'll review and merge once it's updated.

If you're no longer able to work on this, no problem: just let us know. If we don't hear back in about two weeks, we may carry the change forward in a new PR, with credit to you.