ha, agreed
yet databases tend to keep putting that restrictions on fields...
would it be better to ignore that? I've no a strong opinion for the floating 
point case...

Gabriel

On Thursday 22 November 2007 10:49:26 pm Rob Atkinson wrote:
> Surely the problem is that "length" is not a meaningful restriction on
> a floating point number...
>
> no amount of logic can resolve an inconsistency in your starting
> assumptions, maybe you need to validate the validation rules first!
>
> RA
>
> On Nov 23, 2007 2:56 AM, Gabriel Roldán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm getting trapped by validation. Thing being that AttributeImpl
> > constructor calls Types.validate(this, getValue()), which fails to
> > validate, for example, a double value.
> > Example:
> > I've inserted a double attribute in sde with the value 0.7
> > The attribute has a length "restriction" (aka, Filter) of 15.
> > Now, when I fetch the attribute from the database, it's
> > 0.700000000000001, hence the validation fails.
> >
> > Question is:
> > - does anybody got trapped in the same way? how to solve it?
> > - should I check the attribute content is valid before creating the
> > Attribute? - should that kind of validation not occur at all when
> > fetching data, but just when inserting/modifying?
> >
> > hrmmm...
> >
> > Gabriel
> >
> >
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