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

@@ -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)
 -------
 

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 &&
+  FORCE_INLINE
-                                      !is_same<T, char>::value &&
+      typename enable_if<!ConverterNeedsWriteableRef<T>::value, T>::type
-                                      !ConverterNeedsWriteableRef<T>::value,
+      as() const {
-                                  T>::type
-  as() const {
     return Converter<T>::fromJson(getVariantConst());
   }