Urgent [9] RFR (S) : JDK-8039915 NumberFormat.format() does not consider required no. of fraction digits properly

[Brian Burkhalter]

Hi Olivier,

On Sep 22, 2014, at 7:56 AM, olivier.lagneau at oracle.com wrote:

>> and 2) use braces around all the statements contained in if/else blocks (see below). Comment #2 is nit-picky.
> I tried to keep the same flavour of writing as in HALF_DOWN and HALF_EVEN cases, i.e. don't use brace for
> terminal/leaf return true/false statements. This is not the standard however, at least in this file.
> Will use braces in all case (i.e. the 3 of HALF_UP,  HALF_DOWN and HALF_EVEN).

I did not look at the other case. If your formatting matches the rest of the file then I think it is OK to leave it as-is.

>> Lastly and this is not really part of your changeset, but I found it curious that the test prints the details of all cases that succeed as opposed to those that fail. I would think that either all results or the failures alone ought to be printed instead of successes only. See for example the partial diff below the DigitList diff.
> Since these are most often corner and tricky test cases I think it interesting to have the details of each result,
> including infos of both why returned result is correct or wrong.
> That can help the reader to understand all these tricky cases.
> The bad side of it being that it prints a lot of text, with failure cases (hoepfully few) lost in the middle of it,
> thus making failures possibly not immediate to detect. 
> 
> Here is an example of what is printed in case of failure:
> "
> ========================================
> ***Error formatting double value from string : 0.6868d
> NumberFormat pattern is  : #,##0.###
> Maximum number of fractional digits : 3
> Fractional rounding digit : 4
> Position of value relative to tie : above
> Rounding Mode : HALF_UP
> BigDecimal output : 0.68679999999999996607158436745521612465381622314453125
> FloatingDecimal output : 0.6868
> Error. Formatted result different from expected.
> Expected output is : "0.687"
> Formated output is : "0.686"
> ========================================

I missed that output: I was looking for the word “failure.”

> There is also a reminder of the number of errors at the end of the report:
> "
> ==> 4 tests failed
> 
> Test failed with 4 formating error(s).
> "
> 
> May be providing a reminder (value + rounding-mode + rounding position)
> of the failure cases at the end of the would be better ?
> Like:
> "
> Test failed with 4 formating error(s) for following cases :
> - 0.3126d, HALF_UP rounding, 3 fractional digits
> - 0.6868d, HALF_UP rounding, 3 fractional digits
> - 1.798876d, HALF_UP rounding, 5 fractional digits
> - 1.796889d, HALF_UP rounding, 5 fractional digits
> "
> 
> Would doing so be ok ?

If the test is already printing out the information you showed above (“Error formatting …”) then I think it is enough but the verbiage should perhaps match the reminder, e.g., “Failure: Error formatting double …”

Thanks,

Brian