Handling duplicate params

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I’m using Strapi v3, but perhaps this applies to v4.

I noticed duplicate query params are automatically merged into an array. Is this intentional? What’s the benefit?

Is it upon a dev to manually check for this when digesting params in a custom controller?

Any suggestions on how to control this at a high-level… ie to NOT merge duplicate query params, instead only take the first instance and ignore the rest.

Duplicate query params:

/myposts?_limit=50&_limit=30

ctx.query {
  _limit: [ '50', '30' ]
}

vs

Single query param:

/myposts?_limit=50

ctx.query {
  _limit: '50'
}