${aspnet-session} - added ValueType to handle integer session values

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see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62054400/can-the-nlog-aspnet-sessionvariable-intid-renderer-extract-display-integers-f/62054553#62054553

I think the only solution here is to add a type option to the renderer. What do you think @snakefoot ?

(If it's 4 bytes long, we only know it could be an int)

PS: these are the extensions in ASP.NET Core:

namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http
{
    public static class SessionExtensions
    {
        public static void SetInt32(this ISession session, string key, int value)
        {
            var bytes = new byte[]
            {
                (byte)(value >> 24),
                (byte)(0xFF & (value >> 16)),
                (byte)(0xFF & (value >> 8)),
                (byte)(0xFF & value)
            };
            session.Set(key, bytes);
        }

        public static int? GetInt32(this ISession session, string key)
        {
            var data = session.Get(key);
            if (data == null || data.Length < 4)
            {
                return null;
            }
            return data[0] << 24 | data[1] << 16 | data[2] << 8 | data[3];
        }

        public static void SetString(this ISession session, string key, string value)
        {
            session.Set(key, Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(value));
        }

        public static string GetString(this ISession session, string key)
        {
            var data = session.Get(key);
            if (data == null)
            {
                return null;
            }
            return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(data);
        }

        public static byte[] Get(this ISession session, string key)
        {
            byte[] value = null;
            session.TryGetValue(key, out value);
            return value;
        }
    }
}

[snakefoot]

Instead of having a generic property-type, Then just have Int32 / string as enum-values. But yes a ValueType-property sounds fine.

[snakefoot]

Strange that Microsoft have not added some kind of byte-order-mark to signal whether byte-array is an integer or string.

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Or just an int which would be utf8 compatible. Yes, less efficient. This int "encoding" is just unsafe stuff

[snakefoot]

Yes also think it would be nicer that the SetInt32-extension-method, just converted integer into utf8-byte-array without doing string-allocation first. Not sure people using session-state-objects care much about 4 or 10 bytes.

[snakefoot]

Looks great

[snakefoot]

Like the name

[snakefoot]

Good idea since ASP_NET_CORE3 includes entire framework

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updated docs: https://github.com/NLog/NLog/wiki/AspNetSession-layout-renderer