Preconditions and environment

Tested on

• 2.4.8
• 2.4.7
• PHP 8.2
• PHP 8.3

Steps to reproduce

• Deploy vanilla magento and install sample data.
• Run the following test code in the root which demonstrates the problem by getting the status of the product (enabled/disabled) and printing the return type of the getStatus() call.

use Magento\Framework\App\Bootstrap;
use Magento\Catalog\Api\ProductRepositoryInterface;

require __DIR__ . '/app/bootstrap.php';

$productRepository = Bootstrap::create(BP, $_SERVER)
    ->getObjectManager()
    ->create(ProductRepositoryInterface::class);

$product = $productRepository->get("24-MB01");
$status = $product->getStatus();
echo "Return type of getStatus() is : " . gettype($status) . PHP_EOL;

return;

Expected result

Return type of getStatus() is : int

Actual result

Return type of getStatus() is : string

Additional information

The Status Product Attribute is defined in core Magento as an integer.

When products are created, the Attribute "status" is stored in the catalog_product_entity_int table confirming it is typed as integer.

The Magento ProductInterface defines the call getStatus() as returning an int or null.

Yet calls to $product->getStatus() return a string.

The same thing happens when retrieving float values, for example $product->getPrice() returns a string despite the Interface mandating float or null.

EDIT : I'm willing to concede on getPrice as Price is stored as a DECIMAL type in MySQL which is a fixed precision string representation of a floating point number, and not a float.

Release note

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Triage and priority

• Severity: S0 - Affects critical data or functionality and leaves users without workaround.
• Severity: S1 - Affects critical data or functionality and forces users to employ a workaround.
• Severity: S2 - Affects non-critical data or functionality and forces users to employ a workaround.
• Severity: S3 - Affects non-critical data or functionality and does not force users to employ a workaround.
• Severity: S4 - Affects aesthetics, professional look and feel, “quality” or “usability”.