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Support for Decimal (monetary) data

See original GitHub issue

Here is a printout from Open Banking in the UK. “Amount” is the field of interest.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-fapi-interaction-id: 93bac548-d2de-4546-b106-880a5018460d
Content-Type: application/json
 
{
  "Data": {
    "DirectDebit": [
      {
        "AccountId": "22289",
        "DirectDebitId": "DD03",
        "MandateIdentification": "Caravanners",
        "DirectDebitStatusCode": "Active",
        "Name": "Towbar Club 3 - We Love Towbars",
        "PreviousPaymentDateTime": "2017-04-05T10:43:07+00:00",
        "PreviousPaymentAmount": {
          "Amount": "0.57",
          "Currency": "GBP"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "Links": {
    "Self": "https://api.alphabank.com/open-banking/v2.0/accounts/22289/direct-debits/"
  },
  "Meta": {
    "TotalPages": 1
  }
}

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:16 (8 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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darrelmillercommented, Apr 2, 2018

@cyberphone Yes. Here is the ANBF grammar for how to serialize a JSON Number over the wire in UTF-8 text.

And your last comment gets to the heart of the matter. OpenAPI is not in the business of telling people how to serialize data. That is the job of media type specifications. We are in the business of trying to describe in a platform independent manner what people chose to do.

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cyberphonecommented, Apr 2, 2018

Sure, I’m unarguable NOT an expert on OpenAPI and JSON Schema. I did though read the table of data types: https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/blob/master/versions/3.0.1.md#data-types I found dateTime and saw that it is mapped into RFC3339 formatted “strings”.

I would reuse that idea for Decimal unless there is something fundamentally wrong with doing that. The W3C folks’ format specification would probably suffice.

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