On StackOverflow I have answered for question: How to deserialize from

[ZioberMichal]

JSON to LocalDate, while also using
JsonGenerator.Feature.WRITE_NUMBERS_AS_STRINGS?
(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24432828/how-to-deserialize-from-jso
n-to-localdate-while-also-using-jsongenerator-featur)

I fixed it changing LocalDateDeserializer:

1. I have replaced “jp.getIntValue()” with “new Integer(jp.getText())”
   which allows read integers and string tokens in the same way.
2. I added test for this change.

[cowtowncoder]

Sounds good, thank you for the contribution!

One process thing we need before accepting your first contribution is to get a filled Contributor License Agreement. It is a one-page document:

https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson/blob/master/contributor-agreement.pdf

and is usually filled by individuals (we accept corporate CLAs too, but those are not as common).
The easiest way is to print, fill, scan and email it to info at fasterxml dot com; we just need to retain these to ensure all contributions are attributed properly, and that we can distributed resulting sources and jars.

Looking forward to merging this!