# Typecast variables are not preserved which is breaking some cloud providers **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [August 22, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/typecast-variables-are-not-preserved-which-is-breaking-some-cloud-providers/19088 "2015-08-22T23:56:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Patrick\_Heeney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f475e1/32.png) [@Patrick\_Heeney](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Patrick_Heeney)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/typecast-variables-are-not-preserved-which-is-breaking-some-cloud-providers/19088/1 "2015-08-22T23:56:16Z")
I have a role like below, that typecasts item.payment to an int. However this appears to be converted back to a string. Ansible throws this error “msg: value of payment\_term must be one of: 1,12,24, got: 1” because it was not a valid int. At the moment this is breaking the linode module or any module that relies on an int with choices. - name: setup linode linode: name: ‘{{ item.name }}’ state: ‘{{ item.state | default(“present”) }}’ payment\_term: ‘{{ item.payment | int | default(1) }}’ api\_key: ‘{{ linode\_api\_key }}’ with\_items: linode\_servers register: linode\_response I think this may be related to [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/5463](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/5463) It seems others are having the same issue with bools, but the ticket has not received any official response. ---
**Author:** ![Patrick\_Heeney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f475e1/32.png) [@Patrick\_Heeney](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Patrick_Heeney)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/typecast-variables-are-not-preserved-which-is-breaking-some-cloud-providers/19088/2 "2015-08-24T18:34:15Z")
I moved this to [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/12071](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/12071)