[CAUSEWAY-3689] Make parsing of BigDecimal stricter, to avoid mistypes.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0-RC4
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: Core
• Assignee: Daniel Keir Haywood
• Reporter: Daniel Keir Haywood
• Created: 22/Feb/24 15:04
• Updated: 08/Mar/24 12:40
• Resolved: 08/Mar/24 12:40

Description

for example, with an en_GB locale, I can type "123,99"  (accidentally using a , instead of a . as the decimal point), and this is parsed to "12399" ... 100x more than intended.

Instead, this should throw an exception.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2229