Encoding BigDecimal with JSON-Lib for Java

Question

I am using JSON-Lib library to do JSON encoding. Can't do it with GSON (my preferred library when dealing with JSON in Java) or any other libraries because unfortunately my application needs to be Java 1.4 compliant.

My question is:

What's the best way to encode BigDecimal values (values representing money) in that library? Is it just serializing BigDecimal objects as strings with my desired precision?

If you're just going to display the values, then a string works best. — Jeremy, Aug 10 '11 at 13:22
No, I am also planning to use the values in calculations and other stuff... — Pablo Santa Cruz, Aug 10 '11 at 13:25
See the answer to this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2556338/currency-math-in-javascript — Jeremy, Aug 10 '11 at 13:27
How much money are you dealing with? You can hold an awful lot of cents in a Java `long`. — rossum, Aug 10 '11 at 16:07

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 10 '11 at 13:26

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According to this message, JSON-Lib supports BigDecimal via the JSONUtils class.

answered Aug 10 '11 at 13:26

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Excellent! Thanks a lot for the response. It supports BigDecimal. No problem at all. – Pablo Santa Cruz Aug 10 '11 at 14:15

Encoding BigDecimal with JSON-Lib for Java

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