Dear Group, Java BigDecimal serialization to and from the Flash client appears very broken. At best I'd say it's just incomplete. How do those of you who write financial applications with currency or just simple applications which need fixed decimal support deal with this?
For example, a number of 1.92 sent to the server in a Number ends up as 1.9199999999999999289457264239899814128875732421875 in the BigDecimal on the other end. If my BigDecimal had a scale of 2 the result is 1.91. I understand that Number is an IEEE-754 double-precision floating-point number, which is the problem here. If Flex is marketed as a piece of business software without good support for dollars and cents, fixed decimal numbers, accurate currency, in short - financial data which drives the business! (Having BigDecimal mentioned in the serialization documentation is so wrong in my mind with this kind of behavior.) Is there something I am missing? Is there a way to make this work correctly? If not, it looks as though I need to port BigDecimal to Actionscript. Thank you for your consideration. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
