Properly support int variables of any width

[barbuz]

Overview

Related Issue / discussion

#1828

Additional information

Found this issue while debugging #1825. A quick small fix that I didn't feel fit with my other PR I am going to propose.

Dependency policy (RFC2)

• I have ensured that this PR meets RFC2 requirements

Updates to public demo

• I have ensured that breaking changes to the pygeoapi master demo server have been addressed
  • https://github.com/geopython/demo.pygeoapi.io/blob/master/services/pygeoapi_master/local.config.yml

Contributions and licensing

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• I'd like to contribute [feature X|bugfix Y|docs|something else] to pygeoapi. I confirm that my contributions to pygeoapi will be compatible with the pygeoapi license guidelines at the time of contribution
• I have already previously agreed to the pygeoapi Contributions and Licensing Guidelines