# Did something change with casting of web request data? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask the community\ **Created:** [May 6, 2026, 2:19pm UTC](https://community.appfarm.io/t/did-something-change-with-casting-of-web-request-data/2337 "2026-05-06T14:19:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![torstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@torstro](https://community.appfarm.io/u/torstro)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2026, 2:19pm UTC](https://community.appfarm.io/t/did-something-change-with-casting-of-web-request-data/2337/1 "2026-05-06T14:19:09Z")
Hello! This is a fixable user error from us when building the app, but I still found it interesting enough to ask here if something changed. We have a couple of Action Nodes and comparisons that started failing recently that we were quite sure we hadn’t touched in a while. The data in the objects being updated came from web requests with the wrong data type as in this example: { “someNumberAsString”: “123456” } This was mapped to an integer value in Appfarm, but when the object was being persisted we got an error like “got string, expected int”. It also evaluated a comparison with another integer as false even though they appeared to have the same value in the debug panel. We also had a similar issue where we had mapped 1s and 0s to a boolean Appfarm value. Did Appfarm try to cast incoming values from web requests to the correct type before? ---
**Author:** ![kristian](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.appfarm.io/kristian/32/58_2.png) [@kristian](https://community.appfarm.io/u/kristian)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2026, 8:24am UTC](https://community.appfarm.io/t/did-something-change-with-casting-of-web-request-data/2337/2 "2026-05-07T08:24:13Z")
Hi, This is being looked at now! -kristian ---
**Author:** ![torstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@torstro](https://community.appfarm.io/u/torstro)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2026, 8:43am UTC](https://community.appfarm.io/t/did-something-change-with-casting-of-web-request-data/2337/3 "2026-05-07T08:43:46Z")
Thanks! Do you think that the old behaviour will come back? ---
**Author:** ![kristian](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.appfarm.io/kristian/32/58_2.png) [@kristian](https://community.appfarm.io/u/kristian)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2026, 8:56am UTC](https://community.appfarm.io/t/did-something-change-with-casting-of-web-request-data/2337/4 "2026-05-07T08:56:20Z")
Hi! It seems to be related to Flows, so we have temporarily disabled Flows on the Standard / Stable release track while finding a permanent fix. Can you try again now? If the error is in non-dev environment, a new deploy is needed! ---
**Author:** ![torstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@torstro](https://community.appfarm.io/u/torstro)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2026, 9:03am UTC](https://community.appfarm.io/t/did-something-change-with-casting-of-web-request-data/2337/5 "2026-05-07T09:03:07Z")
I tried in Dev now and I still get the error when persisting, value looks okay in the debug panel but seems to be a string under the hood. I did not do anything special to try to get a new Appfarm version in dev. ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/appfarm/original/2X/4/4558d5996653f6beaf82c9bbb19e67073bd4c321.png) ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/appfarm/original/2X/4/4ccf1f011e907f18403412b3c38fc2f3512b59ea.png) ---
**Author:** ![kristian](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.appfarm.io/kristian/32/58_2.png) [@kristian](https://community.appfarm.io/u/kristian)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2026, 9:15am UTC](https://community.appfarm.io/t/did-something-change-with-casting-of-web-request-data/2337/6 "2026-05-07T09:15:25Z")
Can you try doing a minor change in Create to force a Dev deploy, and then test again? And, please also let me know the Appfarm version (as seen from the Create settings) ---
**Author:** ![torstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@torstro](https://community.appfarm.io/u/torstro)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2026, 9:41am UTC](https://community.appfarm.io/t/did-something-change-with-casting-of-web-request-data/2337/7 "2026-05-07T09:41:17Z")
I tried to force a small change but still the same error. ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/appfarm/original/2X/f/fe25113353eca9df7574a63e83d8aeef3630e9e2.png) ---
**Author:** ![kristian](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.appfarm.io/kristian/32/58_2.png) [@kristian](https://community.appfarm.io/u/kristian)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2026, 9:51am UTC](https://community.appfarm.io/t/did-something-change-with-casting-of-web-request-data/2337/8 "2026-05-07T09:51:53Z")
I just sent you a DM!