[appengine-java] Re: when will BigDecimal be supported in datastore?

2009-09-22 Thread Jason (Google)
Hi ted. If you want to package this up in an open source project, I'll be happy to add it to the open source projects page: http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/web/google-app-engine-open-source-projects

[appengine-java] Re: when will BigDecimal be supported in datastore?

2009-09-21 Thread ted stockwell
On Sep 21, 3:05 am, Philippe Marschall philippe.marsch...@gmail.com wrote: But long is crappy abstraction. Sometimes you need two decimal places, sometimes three, sometimes six, sometimes as many as there are. That's all quite cumbersome to do with a long alone. String seems like the

[appengine-java] Re: when will BigDecimal be supported in datastore?

2009-09-19 Thread king
thanks Clay, that's exactly what I am doing now, but that approach takes extra processing cycle, it would be great if GAE can support bigdecimal intrinsically. On Sep 19, 9:20 am, Clay Lenhart c...@lenharts.net wrote: One option is to store the values as a Long in the datastore and have the

[appengine-java] Re: when will BigDecimal be supported in datastore?

2009-09-19 Thread Max Ross
The datastore supports a Double type and we have no plans to support anything more precise. If you need more precision then I'm afraid you'll need to manage it yourself. Max On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:59 PM, king kingalpha...@gmail.com wrote: thanks Clay, that's exactly what I am doing now,