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Hudson commented on WICKET-2878:
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Integrated in Apache Wicket 1.5.x #67 (See
[http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Apache%20Wicket%201.5.x/67/])
> BigDecimalConverter improvement
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>
> Key: WICKET-2878
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-2878
> Project: Wicket
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: wicket
> Affects Versions: 1.4.8
> Reporter: Pedro Santos
> Assignee: Juergen Donnerstag
> Fix For: 1.4.10, 1.5-M1
>
>
> I was having problems comparing values returned by the user input into some
> form fields of type BigDecimal. Looking for the problem, I notes that the
> BigDecimalConverter was passing double values as parameter to BigDecimal
> constructor. According with its doc:
> "he results of this constructor can be somewhat unpredictable. One might
> assume that writing new BigDecimal(0.1) in Java creates a BigDecimal which is
> exactly equal to 0.1 (an unscaled value of 1, with a scale of 1), but it is
> actually equal to 0.1000000000000000055511151231257827021181583404541015625.
> This is because 0.1 cannot be represented exactly as a double (or, for that
> matter, as a binary fraction of any finite length). Thus, the value that is
> being passed in to the constructor is not exactly equal to 0.1, appearances
> notwithstanding. "
> "The String constructor, on the other hand, is perfectly predictable: writing
> new BigDecimal("0.1") creates a BigDecimal which is exactly equal to 0.1, as
> one would expect. Therefore, it is generally recommended that the String
> constructor be used in preference to this one. "
> Can BigDecimalConverter use the valueOf method of the BigDecimal API or
> String constructor to create those objects from double values? IMO giving
> preference to those options we are improving the converter, since the value
> will to be predictable
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