Maintaining precision with numbers

[brianreinhold]

This is more of a question than a bug. I am trying to find a way to encode a decimal value with the proper precision. For example, with a precision of 1/1000, I want to encode 2.000 and not 2 or 2.0. The easy way would be to encode it as a string, but the FHIR spec requires that it be encoded as a number.

In Java I had access to a minimal JSON library where I had the option to encode the string sequence that would appear in the value even though the value itself was representing an integer.

In any case, is there a way I could encode a float. double, or Decimal value with the correct precision? What would it take to do it?

[brianreinhold]

Actually I have a hunch I know how to do it looking at the encoder code but I am so new to Swift and Xcode I wouldn't put too much on that. So I am trying to figure out how to import this source into a test XCode project.

[fabianfett]

Is this a duplicate of #64?

[brianreinhold]

Fabian, In some sense yes. Though I am completely new to Swift and iOS, in Java the way that I was able to maintain precision was that I got a Java library that did not rely on your class variable names as providing the keys. IN the end I got the impression that the Encobable/Decoable protocol was forcing that (I may be wrong) which out the door meant it would not be possible to keep precision unless the class/struct itself did. In Java, there is a class 'BigDecimal' which DOES keep precision (though I did not use that). But as I see it having the raw JsonValue and JsonObject and JsonArray classes works around the 'Codable' protocol allowing one to create JSON strings at a very basic level (so you can essentially pick and choose as you want). That solves the precision problem. Brian

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