[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #52298: Using ID as type string instead of int

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#52298: Using ID as type string instead of int
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 Reporter:  malthert      |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General       |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:
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 Currently all params/return treat IDs (e.g. post id) as type int.

 However, this causes loads of typecasts, since by default all WP functions
 retrieve things as strings. (get option, wpdb, get transient, cache get,
 ...), which means we always need to typecast when retrieving ids. There is
 currently no way to retrieve a post ID as int in WP, which means we ALWAYS
 have to typecast it.

 Secondly, we dont do any numeric operations using IDs anyway (thus there
 is no advantage of it being an int)

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/52298>
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