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Change subject: esim.es2p: Permit ApiParamInteger to be an actual integer ......................................................................
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Maybe this is already done somewhere, but if not: it would probably be a good idea to explicitly tur […]
The function is typically used for input validation. ApiParamBase.decode() method first calls verify_encoded(), then _decode(), then verify_decoded(). So verify_decoded is just made a bit more input tolerant. The output type of the overall ApiParamBase.decode() is always an int.
For encoding: the encode() method returns str(data) and hence always a string, as you request
