Design issue Integer option values return as string

[Jake B.]

Affected version

2.0.5

For example, if I try to dump out the reportIntoForumId value with this:

\XF::dump([
    \XF::options()->reportIntoForumId,
]);die;

the selected forum ID will return as a string rather than an integer



which is a bit annoying in certain circumstances

 

[Chris D]

Unfortunately, this is unavoidable for the most part because the entity column type has to support multiple value types. It's a BINARY field so scalar values are typically converted to a string when they're saved into the option cache.

It's just something you'll have to account for in your code, unfortunately.

 

[Jon W]

I've just come across this issue. Could this not be easily fixed in the getOptionCacheData() method?