Discussion: Vardocs for PDO values: int or string?

[colinmollenhour]

This is a continuation from a discussion about how to properly vardoc values that in the database are stored as ints, but because of PDO all values when queried from the database are returned as strings.

#693 (comment)

[sreichel]

In a few words ... if the method is named get "someId" I'd expect an int ...

I just can't understand how something like this wouldn't get noticed by anyone: magento/magento2#18079

At the end ... if stored as int, but returned as string, it should be (re-)casted to int.

[tmotyl]

I believe it could be fixed on the db driver level, but I would not do the change in 1.9 branch but rather 20.x branch.