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[Jersey] Re: Encoding longs ...

From: Brian Mason <brian_at_gabey.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 14:56:28 -0700

Actually I did a quick test and the BigDecimal is renders as a long as well
and truncated.



On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Brian Mason <brian_at_gabey.com> wrote:

> Thanks,
> Is there a way to automate a runtime conversion of longs to Big Decimals
> or is that just something I should have coded up when I did the coding???
>
> Brian
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Tatu Saloranta <tsaloranta_at_gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Usually lossless handling is achieved best by using `BigDecimal` for
>> values.
>> Jackson-based "POJO" mapping will handle this fine; although best
>> practices suggest you should send this as part of an Object, as root-level
>> values are not officially legal JSON.
>>
>> -+ Tatu +-
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Brian Mason <brian_at_gabey.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am still on 1.17
>>> I am using "Natural" encoding but I want to override the long encoding
>>> to make it a string so we dont loose digits when its encoded to JSON.
>>> Any suggestions on how to do this (Or a better idea of how to do this?)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Brian Mason
>>>
>>
>>
>