Fire CLI does not convert types

[j08lue]

I stumbled over passing a boolean flag to the fire-generated CLI and it getting passed to the Python API as a string.

e.g. when you do

os_climate_hazard degree_days_indicator --store /input-data --source_dataset UKCP18 --source_dataset_kwargs "{'resolution':'60km','domain':'uk'}" --gcm_list "[ukcp18]" --scenario_list "[rcp85]" --threshold_list "[]" --threshold_temperature 28 --central_year_list "[2030,2040,2050,2060,2070,2080,2090]" --central_year_historical 2005 --window_years 20 --dask_cluster_kwargs "{'n_workers': 1, 'threads_per_worker': 1}" --write_xarray_compatible_zarr false

the flag --write_xarray_compatible_zarr false internally gets passed on as the string "false", which evaluates to True... 🤦

I read there is a drop-in replacement for fire called afire https://github.com/zqqqqz2000/afire

• Parse arguments based on type hints in the corresponding function signature google/python-fire#327

Perhaps worth considering to change to that?