Fix params type for step ref request.

[BugDiver]

Fix #1857

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Benchmark Results

java_gradle_multithreaded.csv

Commit	CPU	Memory	Time	ExitCode
6e0d83f	180%	376804	0:18.33	0
c532320	182%	355644	0:20.04	0
c93f7af	179%	558492	0:33.83	0
0921ec1	180%	563572	0:29.78	0

java_maven_serial.csv

Commit	CPU	Memory	Time	ExitCode
6e0d83f	181%	318024	0:17.65	0
c532320	181%	338348	0:18.11	0
c93f7af	147%	296200	0:30.25	0
0921ec1	180%	296660	0:27.61	0

java_gradle_parallel.csv

Commit	CPU	Memory	Time	ExitCode
6e0d83f	178%	394976	0:20.54	0
c532320	178%	374068	0:20.26	0
c93f7af	166%	639544	0:30.80	0
0921ec1	182%	574344	0:42.51	0

java_gradle_serial.csv

Commit	CPU	Memory	Time	ExitCode
6e0d83f	179%	388428	0:21.85	0
c532320	177%	349640	0:21.11	0
c93f7af	166%	619168	0:33.39	0
0921ec1	175%	557240	0:43.04	0

java_simple_parallel.csv

Commit	CPU	Memory	Time	ExitCode
6e0d83f	185%	316576	0:20.36	0
c532320	188%	316540	0:20.17	0
c93f7af	182%	324672	0:20.33	0
0921ec1	181%	325640	0:20.03	0

java_maven_multithreaded.csv

Commit	CPU	Memory	Time	ExitCode
6e0d83f	183%	355184	0:23.08	0
c532320	183%	303728	0:22.61	0
c93f7af	153%	362648	0:37.51	0
0921ec1	161%	301948	0:27.06	0

java_simple_serial.csv

Commit	CPU	Memory	Time	ExitCode
6e0d83f	179%	351068	0:13.29	0
c532320	170%	343216	0:14.42	0
c93f7af	163%	341344	0:15.11	0
0921ec1	176%	414552	0:13.43	0

java_maven_parallel.csv

Commit	CPU	Memory	Time	ExitCode
6e0d83f	184%	318832	0:21.98	0
c532320	184%	340820	0:20.92	0
c93f7af	158%	341744	0:31.93	0
0921ec1	150%	302156	0:30.51	0

java_simple_multithreaded.csv

Commit	CPU	Memory	Time	ExitCode
6e0d83f	181%	397856	0:13.15	0
c532320	174%	384524	0:13.73	0
c93f7af	174%	385536	0:14.13	0
0921ec1	172%	407336	0:16.52	0

Notes

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• These results are not persisted, but on merging to master the benchmark will be rerun.
• These benchmark are run in Github Actions' agents, which are virtualized. Results are not to be taken as actual benchmarks.Rather, these are indicative numbers and make sense for comparison.

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[zabil]

@BugDiver can you add some details about why this is a problem only for the typescript plugin while step references on other platforms seem to pass.

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[zabil]

Added a bunch of commits that fixes lint issues from upgrade to a new version of golang-lint