bug: CapacitorHTTP crashes when a header value is given as number on iOS

[nip3o]

Bug Report

Capacitor Version

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Latest Dependencies:

@capacitor/cli: 4.6.1
@capacitor/core: 4.6.1
@capacitor/android: 4.6.1
@capacitor/ios: 4.6.1

Installed Dependencies:

@capacitor/android: not installed
@capacitor/cli: 4.6.1
@capacitor/ios: 4.6.1
@capacitor/core: 4.6.1

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Platform(s)

Only iOS

Current Behavior

Giving the value of a HTTP header as a number rather than as string causes the exception Could not cast value of type '__NSCFNumber' (0x122864c30) to 'NSString' (0x1b7cc7fc8). to be thrown when the value is unpacked in HttpRequestHandler.

fetch("https://www.google.com/", {
    headers: {
      thisIsFine: "1337",
      thisThrowsError: 1337,
    },
  })

Expected Behavior

The numeric value should be converted to a string. This is what the Android version of the plugin does, and what the Safari browser implementation of fetch() does. One could definitely argue that header values should always be passed in as strings, but I don't think it's helpful to crash on it. Either way, plugin code should not crash internally due to user errors.

Code Reproduction

https://github.com/nip3o/capacitor-http-headers-crash

Other Technical Details

npm --version output: 6.14.17

node --version output: v14.20.0

pod --version output (iOS issues only): 1.11.3

Additional Context

I did not get a stacktrace, but the crash happens in ios/Capacitor/Capacitor/Plugins/HttpRequestHandler.swift:148: let headers = (call.getObject("headers") ?? [:]) as! [String: String]

Could not cast value of type '__NSCFNumber' (0x122864c30) to 'NSString' (0x1b7cc7fc8).

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