stevedlawrence commented on a change in pull request #86: Adding value of 'bcd' 
to binaryCalendarRep
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-daffodil/pull/86#discussion_r205433137
 
 

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 File path: 
daffodil-runtime1-unparser/src/main/scala/org/apache/daffodil/processors/unparsers/PackedBinaryUnparserTraits.scala
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 @@ -45,7 +46,16 @@ abstract class PackedBinaryBaseUnparser(
   override def unparse(state: UState): Unit = {
     val nBits = getBitLength(state)
     val node = state.currentInfosetNode.asSimple
-    val value = node.dataValue.asInstanceOf[JNumber]
+
+    // If this is unparsing a binary calendar use node.dataValueAsString and 
create a JBigDecimal
+    //   so it can be cast to a JNumber below.
 
 Review comment:
   It would be good to explain *why* we need to use dataValueAsString rather 
than dataValue (e.g. packed date time uses the convert combinator which sets 
the string value of the calendar--if we used dataValue we would get the 
Calendar value rather than that string. On the otherhand, with packed numbers, 
dataValue is already a number so we just want to use that, etc.).
   
   Based on the code, it's clear that unparsing a packed binary calendar uses 
dataValueAsString, but it's not immediately clear why that's necessary.

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