cffi: always return config values as JSON #3969
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Previously, string JSON values were special cased to be provided as bare strings, which means that CFFI modules have to either know what type each value is expected to be, or use a heuristic such as trying to decode and then treating the value as a string on failure. Instead, we can always return JSON, and let the downstream consumer handle deserialising the value into whatever type is expected. The new behaviour is gated on a new ABI version 2: modules built against version 1 will continue to get the old behaviour.
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Dependent on Alexays/Waybar#3969 being merged, obviously.
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Previously, string JSON values were special cased to be provided as bare strings, which means that CFFI modules have to either know what type each value is expected to be, or use a heuristic such as trying to decode and then treating the value as a string on failure.
Instead, we can always return JSON, and let the downstream consumer handle deserialising the value into whatever type is expected.
The new behaviour is gated on a new ABI version 2: modules built against version 1 will continue to get the old behaviour.