Feature #4593: xmlrpc does not support bigdecimal

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -

[atambo (Alex Tambellini)]

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XMLRPC does not support bigdecimal.

See my pull request here to add support for bigdecimal type to xmlrpc library:

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/13
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[atambo (Alex Tambellini)]

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This would apply to 1.8 and 1.9.
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[sorah (Sorah Fukumori)]

• Project changed from Ruby 1.8 to Ruby master
• Category changed from lib to lib

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[mrkn (Kenta Murata)]

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Hi,

On 2011年4月22日金曜日 at 1:47, Alex Tambellini wrote:

XMLRPC does not support bigdecimal.

See my pull request here to add support for bigdecimal type to xmlrpc library:

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/13

A BigDecimal isn't generally a double precision number.
I'm worrying about that there isn't common consensus for treating a BigDecimal as double.

If you want to deal with a BigDecimal as a double in XMLRPC,
you can convert the BigDecimal to a Float using BigDecimal#to_f.

--
Kenta Murata
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[mrkn (Kenta Murata)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

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