storm-kafka-client configuration fails with a ClassCastException if "enable.auto.commit" is present in the consumer config map, and the value is a string

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String
cannot be cast to java.lang.Boolean
at
org.apache.storm.kafka.spout.KafkaSpoutConfig.setAutoCommitMode(KafkaSpoutConfig.java:721)
at
org.apache.storm.kafka.spout.KafkaSpoutConfig.<init>(KafkaSpoutConfig.java:97)
at
org.apache.storm.kafka.spout.KafkaSpoutConfig$Builder.build(KafkaSpoutConfig.java:671)