Currently the 'App Settings' UI in the PAAS Portal supports only string values.

If I want to set a boolean field, I can't. If I add a value here it will be interpreted as a string.

e.g.

{
"ServiceEnabled": true
}

If I want to 'disable' this from the AppSettings, I can't, because if I set the value to 'false' it effectively does this:

{
"ServiceEnabled" : "false"
}

i.e. it adds the value as a string.

Note, the same issue exists for numeric fields.

The current work-around (hack) is to create all booleans and numeric app settings as string fields and then parse them later on in the application code.

Can you somehow update the UI in the PAAS portal to allow users to select the data-type when adding a value, i.e. string, number, or boolean?