How to add a new value for a product attribute with dropdown programatically?

Hi,
I ran into problems when trying to create new values for dropdown product attributes.
I created some product attribute with a select/dropdown input and type varchar. The source should be handled by Magento internally, I don’t need a custom source. So I left source empty. This correctly resulted in a source class of
Magento\Eav\Model\Entity\Attribute\Source\Table
Now how do I add selectable values to the dropdown (I need a proper eav_attribute_option_value with an option_id as it seems)?

I tried this code (which works if the $attributeValue is a string containing alphas as 'brown', but I get the Exceptions mentioned below when I put in strings containing numbers eg. '40')
`

function createNewAttributeValue($attributeCode, $attributeValue)
{

    $optionManagement = $this->objectManager->create('Magento\Catalog\Api\ProductAttributeOptionManagementInterface');

    $option = $this->objectManager->create('Magento\Eav\Api\Data\AttributeOptionInterface');

    $optionLabel = $this->objectManager->create('Magento\Eav\Api\Data\AttributeOptionLabelInterface');

    $option->setLabel($attributeValue);
    $option->setValue($attributeValue);
    $option->setSortOrder(0);
    $option->setIsDefault(0);

    // $optionLabel->setLabel($attributeValue);
    // $optionLabel->setStoreId(1); // TODO storeId dynamically?

    // $option->setStoreLabels([$optionLabel]);

    try {
        if (!$optionManagement->add($attributeCode,$option)) {
            throw new \Exception('Couldn\'t add option for attribute '.$attributeCode.': '.$attributeValue);
        }
    } catch (\Exception $e) {
        throw new \Exception('Couldn\'t create option for attribute '.$attributeCode.': '.$attributeValue.' (['.get_class($e).']) '.$e->getMessage().')');
    }

}

`

What happens when I put in “number strings” is that $optionManagement->add($attributeCode,$option) throws an Cannot save attribute %s from Magento\Eav\Model\Entity\Attribute\OptionManagement, underneath that lies Magento\Eav\Model\ResourceModel\Entity\Attribute extending Magento\Framework\Model\ResourceModel\Db\AbstractDb with the following exception within function save():

[Zend_Db_Statement_Exception]) SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1452 Cannot add or update a child row: a foreign key constraint fails (tablename.eav_attribute_option_value, CONSTRAINT EAV_ATTR_OPT_VAL_OPT_ID_EAV_ATTR_OPT_OPT_ID FOREIGN KEY (option_id) REFERENCES eav_attribute_option (option_id) ON DELETE ), query was: INSERT INTO eav_attribute_option_value (option_id, store_id, value) VALUES (?, ?, ?)))

Thats where I gave up… How do you add it properly?

Found an issue regarding this bug
https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues/5715