Defined types of monitoring status variables does not match event string conversions

[bjhargrave]

Original bug ID: BZ#72
From: Henrik Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Reported version: R4 V4.2

[bjhargrave]

Comment author: Henrik Gustafsson <[email protected]>

According to section 119.3 of the Compendium spec a status variable can have the following types:
• TYPE_BOOLEAN – A boolean value.
• TYPE_INTEGER – A signed numeric value that fits in a Java int type.
• TYPE_FLOAT – A floating point value that fits in a Java float type.
• TYPE_STRING – A String object.

However, in 119.5 where it states the conversions from the StatusVariable to the "mon.statusvariable.value" event property the following type conversions are listed:

• long – Long.toString(long).
• double – Double.toString(double).
• boolean – Boolean.toString(boolean).
• String – No conversion

I assume the first two should be

• int – Integer.toString(int).
• float – Float.toString(float).

but it does seem a bit odd that there is no long type as a CM_CC counting bytes wouldn't be a too strange use-case and two gigs really isn't enough for everyone :)