Store metadata as pure Python data types in git

Pure Python data types can be safely parsed using ast.literal_eval(), removing
the need for unsafe evaluation.

Previously, numeric data was stored as dbus types (e.g.  "dbus.Int32(0,
variant_level=1)").

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/gdatastore/datastore.py b/gdatastore/datastore.py
index ae9a657..d74ebc3 100644
--- a/gdatastore/datastore.py
+++ b/gdatastore/datastore.py
@@ -656,7 +656,12 @@ def to_native(value):
         return unicode(value)
     elif isinstance(value, str):
         return str(value)
-    return value
+    elif isinstance(value, int):
+        return int(value)
+    elif isinstance(value, float):
+        return float(value)
+    else:
+        raise TypeError('Unknown type: %s' % (type(value), ))
 
 
 def _format_ref(tree_id, version_id):