In financial services space, we almost never use float/double in our domain
- we always use BigDecimal.
In elastic, I would like to be able to index/store BigDecimal in a lossless
manner (ie what I get back from _source has the same precision, etc as what
I put in).
When I have had to preserve the json serialisation of BigDecimal, I have
usually had custom serialiser/deserialisers that printed it out as a json
number - but whose textual value was toPlainString(). When deserialising,
creating the BigDecimal with the string value (e.g. '42.5400') maintained
the precision that was originally serialised
e.g.
{
verySmallNumber : 0.00000000012000,
otherNumber : 42.5400
}
Perhaps elastic could index bigdecimal as a double - but store it in the
source in a lossless fashion.
It would require a user setting, I guess, to treat all floating point
numbers as BigDecimal.
Thoughts?
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