excpetion after rpc return: "Value of BigDecimal isn't a right value."

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Send a serializable class through RPC with a BigDecimal field in it.
2.
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Exception thrown on client side in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.8 or IE,
"Value of BigDecimal isn't a right value."

Works only in hosted browser.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Windows XP SP3, GWT 1.5.2, gwt-math 2.0.3_java5

Please provide any additional information below.

It works only in the hosted browser.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by gem.kapc...@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2009 at 7:48

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By modifying the source of gwt-math, I see, that the problem is here:

public BigDecimal(String val) {
  try {
    Double.parseDouble(val);
    internalBigDecimal = new InternalBigDecimal(val);
  }
  catch (Exception e) {
    throw new IllegalArgumentException("Value of BigDecimal isn't a right value. [" 
+ val + "]");
}

The browser shows the error message I see: [5315]
I think the Double.parseDouble(val) needs a .0 suffix or something..

Original comment by jant...@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2009 at 12:20

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No, the exception comes from a deeper source:

(TypeError): $wnd.BigDecimal is undefined fileName:
http://localhost:8080/....../F257F8BF51ED91CB36949C844ED12F2A.cache.html

I must be doing domething wrong.. any ideas?

Original comment by jant...@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2009 at 12:33

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All problem solved: I simply did not copy the bigdecimal.js and amathcontext.js 
files
into [webapp]/js/ directory.

I'll leave this thread here: it might be useful for someone..

Original comment by jant...@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2009 at 1:53

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Seems to me this is still a problem ...and I DO have the bigdecimal.js and
amathcontext.js in my [webapp]/js/ directory.  Of course, I didn't put these 
files in
there myself, but the compiler did (pulled from gwt-math-2.1.jar).

I've also tried placing these files in various other location, but with no luck!

Please help!!

Original comment by petercle...@gmail.com on 14 Oct 2009 at 9:04

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This is an issue for me using BigInteger's as well. The BigInteger constructor 
taking
a String argument seems to be calling Integer.parseInt(..) on the value. 
Believe it
or not the number I'm attempting to put in my BigInteger is bigger than
Integer.MAX_VALUE.

Original comment by tehdan...@gmail.com on 18 Feb 2010 at 1:19

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For science I build my own copy of gwt-math, commenting out the 
Integer.parseInt(..)
line. Worked perfectly. Which makes me sad, I was hoping the devs knew 
something I
didn't know and Integer.parseInt(..) in the context of GWT was different (i.e. 
called
a JS parseInt function which supported BigInteger length values).

Original comment by tehdan...@gmail.com on 18 Feb 2010 at 1:41

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Yes, we also "fixed" it the same way.  We simply removed the Integer.parseInt() 
call
...and made similar changes to the BigDecimal class.

Original comment by petercle...@gmail.com on 19 Feb 2010 at 1:28

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I am having the same issue, I suspect.  Can some one please tell which file to 
edit and comment 
Every thing works fine in the Dev Mode but within the Tomcat, I suspect 
Serialization Exception

Thanks

Original comment by rajesh.k...@gmail.com on 18 Sep 2010 at 12:39

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gwt-java-math is a complete implementation of java.math for GWT and handles 
this correctly.

http://code.google.com/p/gwt-java-math 

Original comment by rich...@zschech.net on 26 Sep 2010 at 5:09