Comment 4 for bug 1354269

Ok, so looking over the code, the issue is that the oslo.config options are not used to process the config data passed in from the paste-ini. If the option is set in the nova.conf it should get the correct type.

This should be fixed (if at all possible) by forcing the options to be loaded into the oslo config object and use the type management of oslo.config instead of accepting *whatever* the paste config ends up being.