logstash/logstash — comment on commit d47c1dc98f67da1696307c6da8c223810a5159b9
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By lusis:

@chuckremes that would be awesome. As I said on IRC, It's a bit of a hack for the logstash side to detect it. There's also the concern if that if a new string sockopt is added, we need to account for it here.

I did several tests using the Float trick and it seems to be pretty reliable. The issue on our side is that Logstash always sends down a string from the config hash type.