Trying to submit a pull request. Getting a 403 .... 
-Nick

On Monday, 10 March 2014 17:28:24 UTC, mooky wrote:
>
> Righto - I will try add some.
> -Nick
>
> On Wednesday, 5 March 2014 13:48:58 UTC, Jörg Prante wrote:
>>
>> Yes, there are no tests yet.
>>
>> Jörg
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:24 PM, mooky <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I am ready to create a pull request - its actually quite a simple change.
>>> However, I cant find *any *tests for the existing BigDecimal support 
>>> ... does that sound right?
>>>
>>> -Nick
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday, 28 February 2014 12:09:00 UTC, mooky wrote:
>>>>
>>>> XContentBuilder has support for BigDecimal, but:
>>>>
>>>>    1. If you pass the source as a Map when indexing, the BigDecimal 
>>>>    handling doesn't get invoked (https://github.com/
>>>>    
>>>> elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/5260<https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/5260>
>>>>    ).
>>>>    2. The existing handling should delegate through to Jackson's 
>>>>    handling of BigDecimal (which can be configured to serialise BigDecimal 
>>>> in 
>>>>    a lossless fashion - I dont think that feature existed when I had to 
>>>> worry 
>>>>    about it last) 
>>>>
>>>> Looking at the code now, I think its actually an easy change - I will 
>>>> see if I can create a pull request.
>>>>
>>>> -Nick
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, 26 February 2014 17:28:29 UTC, Jörg Prante wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> ES accepts BigDecimal input. You can specify scale and rounding mode 
>>>>> to format the BigDecimal. 
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/jprante/elasticsearch/commit/
>>>>> 8ef8cd149b867e3e45bc3055dfd6da80e4e9c7ec
>>>>>
>>>>> Internally, BigDecimal is automatically converted to a JSON string if 
>>>>> the number does not fit into double format. Because numbers are useful in 
>>>>> Lucene for range searches, they have an advantage.
>>>>>
>>>>> But I agree, another option could be to enforce string conversion in 
>>>>> any case, for example storing currency values as strings for financial 
>>>>> services, without arithmetic operations in the index.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe the toEngineeringString() was not a smart decision and 
>>>>> toPlainString() works better.
>>>>>
>>>>> So I would welcome improvements, or should I suggest one in a pull 
>>>>> request?
>>>>>
>>>>> Jörg
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:05 PM, mooky <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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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