Search product fails for category filter when categoryId is string

[adityasharma7]

Current behavior

Note: To generate the issue your backend system should have categoryId as a string
When we use the category filter for search product, the search fails when the categoryId is a string rather than an int value.

Expected behavior

Category filter in search product should work for int as well as a string categoryIds

Steps to reproduce the issue

Steps to regenerate:

1. Search for any product
2. Click on on any category tag
   No products in the search result

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• This is a bug report for test version on https://test.storefrontcloud.io - In this case Developer should create branch from develop branch and create Pull Request 2. Feature / Improvement back to develop.
• This is a bug report for current Release Candidate version on https://next.storefrontcloud.io - In this case Developer should create branch from release branch and create Pull Request 3. Stabilisation fix back to release.
• This is a bug report for current Stable version on https://demo.storefrontcloud.io and should be placed in next stable version hotfix - In this case Developer should create branch from hotfix or master branch and create Pull Request 4. Hotfix back to hotfix.

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