It seems newer voluptuous passes the specified default value into the
verification method. Previously if data wasn't supplied it seems to have
not validated anything and returend the default. Anyway this means we
need to use a default value that matches our input type and manipulate
it on the output end the same way we would normal input.
We make this update in order to use newer voluptuous which will be
required when we switch to python3.10.
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