From 3775a326598f61c4b24767b4303397d80cb08922 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: darosior <darosior@protonmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 May 2019 18:13:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Pylightning: allow to specify the option type at its creation

---
 contrib/pylightning/lightning/plugin.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/contrib/pylightning/lightning/plugin.py b/contrib/pylightning/lightning/plugin.py
index 402f3cccf..c4eaa4641 100644
--- a/contrib/pylightning/lightning/plugin.py
+++ b/contrib/pylightning/lightning/plugin.py
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ class Plugin(object):
             return f
         return decorator
 
-    def add_option(self, name, default, description):
+    def add_option(self, name, default, description, opt_type="string"):
         """Add an option that we'd like to register with lightningd.
 
         Needs to be called before `Plugin.run`, otherwise we might not
@@ -198,11 +198,12 @@ class Plugin(object):
             raise ValueError(
                 "Name {} is already used by another option".format(name)
             )
+
         self.options[name] = {
             'name': name,
             'default': default,
             'description': description,
-            'type': 'string',
+            'type': opt_type,
             'value': None,
         }