Hi all, I just wanted to tell you that I have successfully integrated some BigDecimal fields in my Project using rife-1.6-snapshot-jdk15-20060818.jar
Eveything work sfine now. THANKS! Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With kind regards Huibert Gill > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Geert Bevin > Gesendet: Freitag, 4. August 2006 22:16 > An: RIFE users list : questions,bug reports and suggestions. > Betreff: Re: [Rife-users] Datatype BigDecimal > > > I can clarify that a little bit: it's not that you want to get > > arbitrarily *large* values in your form (though maybe Gill's app > > requires that), but rather that float and double are not precise, > > and when you do a bunch of consecutive operations on them, you can > > get rounding errors that add up to real money. > > Yeah, I knew that, by "an arbitrary amount of money" I meant that > users could enter an arbitrary amount of money. The > applications I've > written mostly just let people select items and the price is kept on > the server-side. > > > The basic problem is that "1300.5" may, if you look at the > > underlying representation, *really* be "1300.50000000001", or > > worse, "1300.499999999999". BigDecimal is a precise > representation. > > And it allows you to explicitly specify how you want > rounding to be > > handled, which is important in financial applications. > > > > My approach so far has been to use "long" as the database > > representation (representing a whole number of the smallest > unit of > > currency) and provide accessors to automatically convert to/from > > BigDecimal. But that is far from an ideal solution and direct > > BigDecimal support would be great. > > Hereby is your wish and Gill's wish granted. I just committed > BigDecimal support and it should thus show up in the next nighty > build. If you rely on RIFE to create your database tables, make sure > that you set the proper precision and scale constraint on the > BigDecimal property. > > Take care, > > Geert > > > -- > Geert Bevin > Uwyn "Use what you need" - http://uwyn.com > RIFE Java application framework - http://rifers.org > Music and words - http://gbevin.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Rife-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.uwyn.com/mailman/listinfo/rife-users > _______________________________________________ Rife-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.uwyn.com/mailman/listinfo/rife-users
