Using System.Net.IpAddress as complex type in oData model but serializing/deserializing as string in ASP.NET Core Web API

Question

I have a model I'm using in a Microsoft.AspNetCore.OData Web API that has System.Net.IpAddress as a property. I need the OData controller to serialize/deserialize the IP address as a string.

Here is an example of the model:

public class TestModel
{
    public int Id { get; set;}
    public IPAddress Ipaddress { get; set;}
}

And a simple example of generating the Edm Model for it:

public class EdmModel
{
    public IEdmModel GetEdmModel()
    {
        var builder = new ODataConventionModelBuilder();

        var ip = builder.ComplexType<IPAddress>();
        //ip.Ignore(i => i.Address);
        ip.Ignore(i => i.AddressFamily);
        ip.Ignore(i => i.IsIPv4MappedToIPv6);
        ip.Ignore(i => i.IsIPv6LinkLocal);
        ip.Ignore(i => i.IsIPv6Multicast);
        ip.Ignore(i => i.IsIPv6Teredo);
        ip.Ignore(i => i.IsIPv6UniqueLocal);
        ip.Ignore(i => i.ScopeId);

        var model = builder.EntitySet<TestModel>("TestModel").EntityType;
        model.ComplexProperty(p => p.Ipaddress).IsRequired();

        return builder.GetEdmModel();
    }
}

The controller returns a json representation of the IP address structure but I need it as a string.

I've tried to write and inject a json converter but the OData doesn't use it. I also need to figure out how to show the OData XML schema to use a string instead of the IP address complex type.

Here's the json converter (that works on it's own just not through the OData API):

public class IpAddressJsonConverter : JsonConverter<IPAddress>
{
    /// <inheritdoc/>
    public override IPAddress Read(ref Utf8JsonReader reader, Type typeToConvert, JsonSerializerOptions options)
    {
        return IPAddress.Parse(reader.GetString());
    }

    /// <inheritdoc/>
    public override void Write(Utf8JsonWriter writer, IPAddress value, JsonSerializerOptions options)
    {
        writer.WriteStringValue(value.ToString());
    }
}