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krinninger

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Hello,

i have defined an FORMATTEDFIELD with format=bigdecimal and value=994030962011903775.
But on client side something strange happens.

The value defined in Server-side JSP is displayed as a different value on client side (994030962011903775 -> 994.030.962.011.903.740).
This issue seems to affect almost all values where amount of digits are > 16.

kind regards,
Michael
CaptainCasa

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HI,

I at least can provide a technical response: the Java-Formatter internally works with Double...

Is this a realistic or a theoretical use case...? ;-)

Regards, Björn

Björn Müller, CaptainCasa GmbH
krinninger

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Unfortunately its a realistic use case for a very limited set of scenarios.
Would it be possible to do no Java-Formatter logic when value is to big?
Or even better, let FORMATTEDFIELD decide by attribute if formatting should be applied or not.

kind regards,
Michael
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...will check + agree, that the current behavior is not 100% optimal. Give me one two days...

Regards, Björn

Björn Müller, CaptainCasa GmbH
krinninger

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no problem just keep in mind, for some other cases, we would like also to disable formatting. e.g. for technical fields defining port numbers etc.
(by now we have to go through string fields which is also not perfect).

kind regards,
Michael
 
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