The electricity trading API needs to deal with prices that are represented by a Decimal.
Proposed solution
Add a Price class to the quantities module, but Quantity is backed by a float.
Ideally we should have Price inherit from Quantity, and if that's not possible to at least have the same/similar interface.
Also price probably need to have attached a currency as unit, so we don't mix up prices in USD with prices in EUR for example, but this is much trickier because conversion rates are dynamic and should be retrieved by some API or something. So it is pretty different to normal quantities.
Use cases
Electricity trading client
Alternatives and workarounds
Add this class to the electricity trading API client.
llucax
commented
5 months ago
What's needed?
The electricity trading API needs to deal with prices that are represented by a
Decimal.Proposed solution
Add a
Priceclass to the quantities module, butQuantityis backed by afloat.Ideally we should have
Priceinherit fromQuantity, and if that's not possible to at least have the same/similar interface.Also price probably need to have attached a currency as unit, so we don't mix up prices in USD with prices in EUR for example, but this is much trickier because conversion rates are dynamic and should be retrieved by some API or something. So it is pretty different to normal quantities.
Use cases
Electricity trading client
Alternatives and workarounds
Add this class to the electricity trading API client.
Additional context
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