Saving an integer with $cookies doesn't work, and doesn't throw an error.

[MattijsKneppers]

Saving an integer as a cookie like so:

$cookies.step = 2; 

doesn't result in a cookie being written.

Currently, for someone who is not familiar with cookies, it takes quite some head-scratching before it becomes clear what the problem is when one cookie is written correctly but the other is not.

It would be great if trying to do this would throw an error.

[caitp]

If I can write a failing test and fix this tonight, I think we can ship this for 1.2.13

[MattijsKneppers]

I'm not sure this is the best approach. With this solution, people will see their integer value coming back as a string. Except that it will take some frantic debugging before they actually find out where that weird problem originated.

I would vote for simply throwing a warning when someone tries to store an integer. 'Warning: integers can not be stored as cookies. Please convert your integer to a string'.

[caitp]

Hm, I see your point. I'm not sure. What about warning and calling toString() if it's available?