getZonedDecimalField and getPackedDecimalField documentation

JohnMcKown · Post by **JohnMcKown** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 2:15 pm

I'm looking at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/ ... index.html. The documentation for both getZonedDecimalField and getPackedDecimalField both seem truncated.

getPackedDecimalField(int length, int scale, boolean signed)
Construct and return either a packed decimal Field, depending on the length and scale requested.

getZonedDecimalField(int length, int scale, boolean signed)
Construct and return either a zoned decimal Field, depending on the length and scale requested.

What else is returned? More curious than anything else.

Post by **dovetail** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 5:21 pm

Thanks for pointing this out - the Javadoc for these is bad and we'll fix it.

This methods return the most appropriate field type ( for Packed: PackedDecimalAsIntField, PackedDecimalAsLongField, PackedDecimalAsBigIntegerField, PackedDecimalAsBigDecimalField),

depending on the scale and length that you give it.

The javadoc @see link lists the possible return types.