Re: [hibernate-dev] [Bean Validation] @Max / @Min as double instead of long

Unfortunately, you can't support Big* as they are not expressible in annotations @interface Max { BigDecimal value(); } does not compile. On Mar 4, 2009, at 19:14, Elias Ross wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel(a)hibernate.org > > wrote: >> [Follow up with Sebastian] >> >> Well good point and frankly I do not know :) >> 1. do we support float and double for @Min / @Max? >> 2. if 1 is yes, I'd be inclined to say the value should be double >> but that's >> not fully automatic. > > How would you go about supporting @Max / @Min for > java.math.BigDecimal > ? These would be more useful, since think a lot of this sort of > validation is intended to fulfill business rules and business math > requires exact (not floating point) math. > > And even in situations you use floating point math, the input and > state should be probably a BigDecimal value but internally > calculations could be done (for sake of expedience) using a double > conversion. > > I would probably create a separate @MaxDouble and @MinDouble > annotation, if at all, but I wouldn't feel easy suggesting users > build > constraints using floating point comparisons.