Sounds like a stupid question but I cant figure out the correct way of getting numeric value from XspInputText component in JAVA. 

 

On the simple xpage I have a Editbox field which is marked as Number. Then I have a button that submits the form and in java code I need to read the number and process it. Simple task ... but.

 

In JAVA code I can find the component (Edit box) by name and can read value using following methods:

 

1.  myComponent.getValue() 

 This method  returns generic typeless Object so I have to cast the value to proper type. The value entered can be decimal or non decimal (so I'm using double type in my JAVA code ), but when user enters non decimal value the type cast to double fails saying the following

 

07.06.2011 11:44:27   HTTP JVM: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.Long incompatible with java.lang.Double

 

When user enters decimal value, the getValue() returns Double type.

 

Seems that Domino converts the value to type based on value itself. Integer value returns Long type, decimal value returns the correct Double type.  Thats crazy ... How to heandle this??

 

2.  myComponent.getValueAsString()  

 This returns value as a text which seems to be fine, I can use Double.parseDouble(xxx) but ... if user enters the value higher that thousand, the text value returns thousand separator as space char e.g. '12 500' so when parsing it fails so I have to remove spaces first. The same is for decimal separator, where EditBox allows both ...  dot and comma but parser allows just one, otherwise it fails. To avoid these I have to fix the value first which is annoying ...

 

I have to be missing something significant here ... :-(  Can someone point me to easy way of safe handling the numeric value?

 

Thanks a lot!!