Name: dfC67450 Date: 04/07/2000



  The accessor methods in the public API set and get the grouping
  size as an 'int'. However internal representation is a 'byte'.
  This means that values outside of the byte range are narrowed.

  Source for DecimalFormat.setGroupingSize:

    public void setGroupingSize (int newValue) {
        groupingSize = (byte)newValue;
    }


Here is the test demonstrating the bug:

-----------------Text.java------------------------
import java.text.*;

public class Text {

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat();
        int value = 200;
        df.setGroupingSize(value);
        int newValue = df.getGroupingSize();
        if (value != newValue) {
            System.out.println("setGroupingSize(" + value + ")");
            System.out.println("getGroupingSize() returns " + newValue);
            System.out.println("Test failed");
        } else
            System.out.println("Test passed");
    }
}
--------- Output from the test ---------------------
setGroupingSize(200)
getGroupingSize() returns -56
Test failed
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