{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/emberjs/ember.js/issues/11209","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/emberjs/ember.js/issues/11209/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/emberjs/ember.js/issues/11209/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/emberjs/ember.js/issues/11209/events","html_url":"https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/issues/11209","id":77729850,"number":11209,"title":"Number attributes don't convert values properly when used with input helpers","user":{"login":"vmalloc","id":28710,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/28710?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/vmalloc","html_url":"https://github.com/vmalloc","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vmalloc/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vmalloc/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vmalloc/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vmalloc/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vmalloc/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vmalloc/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vmalloc/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vmalloc/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vmalloc/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-05-18T17:06:22Z","updated_at":"2015-05-18T17:06:22Z","closed_at":null,"body":"In the example here: http://emberjs.jsbin.com/yiqogukoqe/2/edit, a model containing a numeric field has the field change to a string once edited from an input helper. Is this the expected behavior? If it is, I couldn't find any place in the guides discouraging this usage pattern, and in any case it is unintuitive and misleading IMO"}}