ion-select always returns string even when value is a number..

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Current behavior:

I have a select with an object containing an id and a name. The id is a number and the name is a string. The option value is the id and the display value the name. Setting the select model to an existing id which is a number works and the correct preselected name is displayed. However, chosing a different option rwill return the id of the newly select object but not as a number. Instead it will be a string. I manually need to convert it back…

Expected behavior:

The selected value (id) should be returned as a number when it is a number.

Steps to reproduce:

Create select with multiple options being a number. Select a different option will return it as a string…

Related code:

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Other information:

Ionic info: (run ionic info from a terminal/cmd prompt and paste output below):

global packages:

    @ionic/cli-plugin-proxy : 1.3.1
    @ionic/cli-utils        : 1.4.0
    Cordova CLI             : 6.5.0
    Ionic CLI               : 3.4.0

local packages:

    @ionic/app-scripts              : 1.3.7
    @ionic/cli-plugin-cordova       : 1.4.0
    @ionic/cli-plugin-ionic-angular : 1.3.1
    Cordova Platforms               : android 5.2.1 browser 4.1.0 ios 4.2.0 windows 4.4.3
    Ionic Framework                 : ionic-angular 3.2.1

System:

    Node       : v6.10.0
    OS         : Windows 10
    Xcode      : not installed
    ios-deploy : not installed
    ios-sim    : not installed
    npm        : 4.6.1

[AmitMY]

You probably should bind as [value] and not value if that is what you are doing.

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