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Chris Cashwell
Chris Cashwell

Reputation: 22879

Limiting Number of Decimal Places in GWT?

In pure Java, I would normally have a function like the one below for limiting the number of decimal places to decimalCount for a given number value. However, according to the GWT docs, "GWT does not provide full emulation for the date and number formatting classes (such as java.text.DateFormat, java.text.DecimalFormat, java.text.NumberFormat, and java.TimeFormat)." What would one do to the following function in order to make it work in GWT?

public static String getFormatted(double value, int decimalCount) { 
    DecimalFormat decimalFormat = new DecimalFormat();
    decimalFormat.setMaximumFractionDigits(decimalCount);
    return decimalFormat.format(value);
}

Upvotes: 6

Views: 14992

Answers (4)

Jay
Jay

Reputation: 19867

Check out NumberFormat (com.google.gwt.i18n.client.NumberFormat) in the GWT Javadoc.

I've never used it but I see this example in there:

// Custom format
value = 12345.6789;
formatted = NumberFormat.getFormat("000000.000000").format(value);
// prints 012345.678900 in the default locale
GWT.log("Formatted string is" + formatted);

So this should work for you.

Update

This method provides the same functionality as the one in your question. I went ahead and asked for the most efficient way to go about this, see that question here. (Sorry this answer has been edited so much - it was just bugging me)

public static String getFormatted(double value, int decimalCount) {
    StringBuilder numberPattern = new StringBuilder(
            (decimalCount <= 0) ? "" : ".");
    for (int i = 0; i < decimalCount; i++) {
        numberPattern.append('0');
    }
    return NumberFormat.getFormat(numberPattern.toString()).format(value);
}

Alternatives include using a set amount of "0"'s and using substring to pull out the required pattern as @Thomas Broyer mentioned in the comments.

Upvotes: 10

darkhorse21
darkhorse21

Reputation: 29

You can also specify the decimal format within the UiBinder file

<g:HTMLPanel ui:field="grid">
  <table>
    <tr>
      <td>
        <g:Label>
            <ui:msg description="total">Total:</ui:msg>
        </g:Label>
      </td>
      <td>
        <g:NumberLabel customFormat="0.00" ui:field="total"/>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</g:HTMLPanel>

Upvotes: 1

user3561002
user3561002

Reputation: 31

In current GWT (2.5, 2.6), there is now:

private final NumberFormat numberFormat = NumberFormat.getDecimalFormat();

System.out.println(numberFormat.format(myFloat));

Edit: added GWT versions per request

Upvotes: 1

Andrei T
Andrei T

Reputation: 521

You can use 

NumberFormat decimalFormat = NumberFormat.getFormat(".##");

from GWT library which will render for example 1234.789789 to 1234.78

You can find a full working example here: http://gwt.google.com/samples/Showcase/Showcase.html#!CwNumberFormat

Upvotes: 9

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