[phpxmlrpc-devel] double/float number encoding

[lukasz m. <lu...@ma...>]

there is a problem with very big(or very small) float 
numbers. php automagically converts it to scientific number
for example
	1300000000000000000000 to 1.3e21

xmlrpc server accepts it as valid double value, but xmlrpc 
client "converts" it to ERROR_NON_NUMERIC_FOUND, because it 
doesn't match to "^[0-9\+\-\.]+$" regexp.
	i see 2 solutions:
1) let php server accept scientific format, and replace 
regexp based check by is_float(). but xmlrpc specification 
is unclear for me, and i'm not sure if it allow scientific 
format of double number.

2) convert every big or small double to normal format using 
sprintf and proper precision modifier. but it can generate 
amount of unneeded data (1.3e55 takes 6 bytes, 13000....0000 
takes 56 bytes).


what do you think about it?


pozdrav

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