Hi Daniel,
Thanks for responding.
Of course! I don't have much time to spend on this project these days, so generally lag quite a bit behind the list.
Daniel L. Rall wrote:
Matt, I'm very interested in integrating your changes. Please send a patch and associated change log which includes information from your message below, but is tied to specific class and member names.
I'm not clear on how I would produce such a patch. Is there a page somewhere than can enlighten me?
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/source.html#Patches
A patch against either the tip of HEAD and/or the XMLRPC_1_2_BRANCH would be preferred. Let me know if I can help clarify things any further.
How were you thinking to make it configurable?
If the default format is well chosen so that only people exchanging precise scientific data need to bother changing it then probably a system property.
Hmm. On June 16th, you mentioned:
a problem with Apache XML-RPC encoding Doubles using scientific notation,
> which does not conform to the spec
That makes it sound like we shouldn't support scientific notation at all. Unfortunately, that means breaking backwards compatibility with our own bugs. Ideally, we'd output in the spec-complient format, and support input of doubles in scientific notation in a deprecated fashion for a few releases.
