Question

Hi guys i am trying to do this

    ContentValues initialValues = new ContentValues();

  initialValues.put("monthlyBudget",account.monthlyBudge

where MonthlyBudget is BigDecimal variable.

Now it gives an error that change the type of monthlyBudget to String.

How can i resolve this issue.

Answer 1

The ContentValues documentation lists all the overloads of put – and none of them takes a BigDecimal, so I’m not surprised it’s failing.

Two options you could take:

• If this is a currency value (which it sounds like) you may be able to deal with it to a fixed precision, e.g. 2 decimal places, and with relatively limited range. Just multiply your BigDecimal by 100, take the integer result as a long and then put the long into your ContentValues. When you extract it later, create a BigDecimal from the long and divide it by 100. (Or change all your code to treat the budget as an integer number of cents everywhere, potentially.)

• You could store the string representation, and pass that string to the BigDecimal constructor when you fetch it.