dataclasses-json: [BUG] Type coercion since 0.5.9

Description

I’ll let you guys explain that this is intended and why, but starting with 0.5.9 there is type coercion going on when using the from_dict() method.

A non-zero int becomes True on a bool field, for instance. An int becomes its stringified version on a string field.

This feels to me like a breaking change, but I don’t see this anywhere in the release notes. Nor in the version number in any case.

Was this intended? If so, why?

Code snippet that reproduces the issue

from dataclasses import dataclass
from dataclasses_json import DataClassJsonMixin

@dataclass
class MyDataclass(DataClassJsonMixin):
    this_must_be_bool: bool
    this_must_be_string: str


d = {"this_must_be_bool": 1234, "this_must_be_string": 1234}
c = MyDataclass.from_dict(d)

assert isinstance(c.this_must_be_bool, bool)
assert isinstance(c.this_must_be_string, str)

Describe the results you expected

So this snippet raises with 0.5.8. Anything after and including 0.5.9 does not raise.

Python version you are using

3.11.4

Environment description

Tested with dataclasses-json 0.5.9, 0.5.12 and 0.5.14