From b350a9664370f37654a406d75f99b1e5b3a2d637 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benoit Blanchon <git@benoitblanchon.fr>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 22:08:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Remove explicit exclusion of `as<char*>()` and `as<char>()`
 (#1860)

If you try to call them, you'll now get the same error message as any unsupported type.
You could also add a custom converter for `char*` and `char`.
---
 CHANGELOG.md                               | 7 +++++++
 src/ArduinoJson/Variant/VariantRefBase.hpp | 8 +++-----
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a0125a95..408828fc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 ArduinoJson: change log
 =======================
 
+HEAD
+----
+
+* Remove explicit exclusion of `as<char*>()` and `as<char>()` (issue #1860)
+  If you try to call them, you'll now get the same error message as any unsupported type.
+  You could also add a custom converter for `char*` and `char`.
+
 v6.20.0 (2022-12-26)
 -------
 
diff --git a/src/ArduinoJson/Variant/VariantRefBase.hpp b/src/ArduinoJson/Variant/VariantRefBase.hpp
index ddfcf0d6..c2df2dc6 100644
--- a/src/ArduinoJson/Variant/VariantRefBase.hpp
+++ b/src/ArduinoJson/Variant/VariantRefBase.hpp
@@ -46,11 +46,9 @@ class VariantRefBase : public VariantTag {
   // Casts the value to the specified type.
   // https://arduinojson.org/v6/api/jsonvariant/as/
   template <typename T>
-  FORCE_INLINE typename enable_if<!is_same<T, char*>::value &&
-                                      !is_same<T, char>::value &&
-                                      !ConverterNeedsWriteableRef<T>::value,
-                                  T>::type
-  as() const {
+  FORCE_INLINE
+      typename enable_if<!ConverterNeedsWriteableRef<T>::value, T>::type
+      as() const {
     return Converter<T>::fromJson(getVariantConst());
   }