You may be able to patch the DBF code in GeoTools to write our Double as double
etc...
But out of the box it apparently does Numeric :P
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Jody Garnett
On Tuesday, 28 June 2011 at 8:42 PM, LSA wrote:
> Geotools writes Double as Numeric, with parts Width=33 and Decimal=31.
> If one open resulting DBF with notepad, he will be able to see exact
> ASCII characters of stored number. I mean, if we write 33.132 from java
> to dbf, plain text view of dbf will have '33.132' substring among the
> pure binary dbf data.
>
> First of all, if there are any means in Geotools to write Double as
> conventional 8-byte double?
>
> Besides, Numerical(33,31) yields some problems: OLE DB from .NET cannot
> read such a double, saying 'The numerical value is too large to fit into
> a 96 bit decimal.'. If one instead re-save such DBF as with double
> field having Numerical(21,15) OLE DB works quite fine. BTW
> Numerical(21,15) is value that old Excel 97 writes out, when it needs to
> save double column.
>
> Thanks,
> Sergey
>
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