Api4 - Convert field values to correct data type

[colemanw]

Overview

The api historically returns everything as a raw string from the query instead of converting it to the correct variable type (bool, int, float). In php that doesn't matter much, but other languages like javascript are less forgiving. This fixes the types so that e.g. a boolean value will be false instead of "0" (which evaluates to true in javascript!).

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Comments

Technically this is a breaking change but api4 is still new and 99% of php code isn't going to care about variable types anyway, so I'm in favor of putting this in and documenting it in the changelog.

[civibot]

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[colemanw]

Kind of amazing that this doesn't break a single unit test in (including all the v3 tests running on v4). That's how little php cares about variable types.

[eileenmcnaughton]

Yes yes yes yes yes