[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #16101: Numeric term fields are strings

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#16101: Numeric term fields are strings
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 Reporter:  foofy         |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Taxonomy      |    Version:
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:  has-patch
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 The numeric fields (term_id, parent, etc.) on term objects are strings. I
 only noticed this because term_exists() uses is_int() to determine if the
 $term value is an ID or slug.

 Only ticket I could find about this is #5381.

 sanitize_term() should fix this, but it bails early in the "raw" context.
 sanitize_term_field() sanitizes the numeric fields in every context. I
 don't see a reason for sanitize_term() to bail early so I made a patch
 that takes that out. The patch also adds some missing fields to the list
 of those to be sanitized and changes term_exists() to use is_numeric()
 (which will correctly identify strings containing only numbers) instead of
 is_int().

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