+1 Chinmay Patidar, As it will be good for users who want to use Bitcoins as a mode of Payments.
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 6:12 PM, Chinmay Patidar < chinmay.pati...@hotwaxsystems.com> wrote: > Hello Devs, > > Ofbiz places a restriction on saving more than 3 decimal places in price > related entity-fields. But there can be a number of use cases where a user > needs to store more than 2 or 3 decimal places in the currency related > entity-fields. > > I even saw some discussions related to this but didn't found any > conclusions from them. Even one issue > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-494> has been created but for > limited fields. So, I would like to propose support for multiple or more > than 2/3 decimals in price related fields. > > Following are some findings related to the currency fields which would be > helpful to examine the requirement: > Ofbiz uses two field types to store the currency related entity-fields. > These two types are 'currency-amount' and 'currency-precise' with their > respective types being NUMBER(18,2) and NUMBER(18,3). > > Upon initial research, one can conclude that changing the field definitions > of 'currency-amount' and 'currency-precise' would achieve the requirement. > But doing so will raise following questions which need to be answered. Feel > free to add in them. > > - What would be the precise value of precision(number of decimals)? > - Will these changes can make the system inconsistent? > > In addition, I would like to know the significance of having two separate > field types, i.e. 'currency-amount' and 'currency-precise'. > > Also, I have marked one improvement which will be needed to realize the > solution. There are multiple occurrences where hardcoded scaling of 2 has > been set to either display or store a currency field. This needs to be > changed and must be set dynamically. > > I'd like to hear your thoughts. > > Thanks, > *Chinmay Patidar* > -- Thanks and Regards, *Aishwary Shrivastava* | Enterprise Software Engineer HotWax Commerce <http://www.hotwax.co/> by HotWax Systems <http://www.hotwaxsystems.com/>
