In the docs for Phoenix Routing we can see several examples such as below, where a parameter is a boolean.

Routes.user_path(Endpoint, :show, 17, admin: true, active: false)
"/users/17?admin=true&active=false"

Do we ever want to pass a boolean though? Because that will result in a string “true” and “false” in the URL, and in the controller action, we’ll have to convert “true” and “false” string respectively to true and false.

I was thinking to pass 1 or 0 like I used to do in PHP, to easily convert the parameter into a boolean, but converting 0 to a boolean gives true.

iex> !!0
true

Actually, while I’m writing this, I have the idea to use String.to_existing_atom/1

String.to_existing_atom("false")
String.to_existing_atom("true")

Do you do the same? Would maybe be interesting to have a plug that detects true and false strings for any route param (and query string param) and convert them automatically to the atoms? Systematically for all incoming requests.