[XMLRPC-130] Small doubles are serialized in a non-compliant way

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.2, 2.0, 3.0rc1
• Fix Version/s: 3.1.1
• Component/s: Releases
• Assignee: Jochen Wiedmann
• Reporter: Aren Sandersen
• Created: 12/Jan/07 22:49
• Updated: 28/Nov/08 20:53
• Resolved: 05/Aug/08 14:50

Description

The double value of (for example) ".000004" is serialized by XML-RPC as "4.0E-6". Unfortunately, this does not comply with the XML-RPC spec (http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec) which says:

"At this time, only decimal point notation is allowed, a plus or a minus, followed by any number of numeric characters, followed by a period and any number of numeric characters."

So, Java's conversion to the exponential format is not allowed.