univalue: Avoid brittle, narrowing and verbose integral type confusions
Summary:
As UniValue provides several constructors for integral types, the compiler is unable to select one if the passed type does not exactly match. This is unintuitive for developers and forces them to write verbose and brittle code. (Refer to -Wnarrowing compiler warning) For example, there are many places where an unsigned int is cast to a signed int. While the cast is safe in practice, it is still needlessly verbose and confusing as the value can never be negative. In fact it might even be unsafe if the unsigned value is large enough to map to a negative signed one. Fix this issue and other (minor) type issues.
Backport of core#25611.
Depends on D16280.
Test Plan:
ninja all check-all
Reviewers: #bitcoin_abc, PiRK
Reviewed By: #bitcoin_abc, PiRK
Differential Revision: https://reviews.bitcoinabc.org/D16281