Kitura / Kitura/Configuration

Maintain type when overriding values via env var and argv

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Since May 19, 2026.

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Description

Env var and argv will assign non-JSON, non-PLIST to String type, always. This makes overriding numeric values with numeric values impossible. We should figure out a way to coerce the string values from env var and argv into the correct types.

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