diff --git a/lib/rapi/baserlib.py b/lib/rapi/baserlib.py
index ce42166ba6c7bc8af8508aad37708ff94ea4fd5d..9534e3b765f18db515907b674f5eca1696b83034 100644
--- a/lib/rapi/baserlib.py
+++ b/lib/rapi/baserlib.py
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ class ResourceBase(object):
     return val
 
   def _checkStringVariable(self, name, default=None):
-    """Return the parsed value of an int argument.
+    """Return the parsed value of a string argument.
 
     """
     val = self.queryargs.get(name, default)