Creating a product Error

Question

Im getting this error while trying to create a product in magento

"Error occurred during "custom_attributes" processing. Attribute "color" has invalid value. The "black" value's type is invalid. The "int" type was expected. Verify and try again."

This is the payload i am passing

{
  "product": {
    "sku": "Snee1",
    "name": "Snee Tee Large",
    "attribute_set_id": 11,
    "price": 25,
    "status": 1,
    "visibility": 1,
    "type_id": "simple",
    "weight": "0.5",
    
    "extension_attributes": {
        "category_links": [
            {
                "position": 0,
                "category_id": "11"
            },
            {
                "position": 1,
                "category_id": "12"
            },
            {
                "position": 2,
                "category_id": "16"
            }
        ],
        "stock_item": {
            "qty": "10",
            "is_in_stock": true
        }
    },
    "custom_attributes": [
        {
            "attribute_code": "spc",
            "value":"snee1"
        },
        {
            "attribute_code": "description",
            "value": "The Champ Tee keeps you cool and dry while you do your thing. Let everyone know who you are by adding your name on the back for only $10."
        },
        {
            "attribute_code": "tax_class_id",
            "value": "2"
        },
        {
            "attribute_code": "material",
            "value": "148"
        },
        {
            "attribute_code": "pattern",
            "value": "196"
        },
        {
            "attribute_code": "color",
            "value": "black"
        },
        {
            "attribute_code": "size",
            "value": "170"
        }    ]
  }
}

I understand i am creating a product with a custom attribute of color and the value should be an int but i have tried to pass "black".

My question is , is there a way to configure magento to receive the value instead of the int value?

I am asking as we are integrating with an epos provider and they seem to only be able to pass the actual value instead of the id

Thanks