[Bug]: toDecimal() returns `.0` for exponent 0 currencies and should return an integer

[jasongitmail]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Current behavior

// Currencies object
"JPY": {
    "code": "JPY",
    "base": 10,
    "exponent": 0
  },

const dineroObj = {
    "amount": 300,
    "currency": {
      "code": "JPY",
      "base": 10,
      "exponent": 0
    },
    "scale": 0
}

console.log(toDecimal(dineroObj))
// result is 300.0, expected 300

This same behavior occurs for other exponent 0 currencies.

Expected behavior

I would expect an integer value to be returned for "exponent 0" currencies, such as 300 for the above example.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a dinero object for a base 10, exponent 0 currency (e.g. JPY or VND)
2. Pass it to toDecimal(dineroObj)) and view the result.

Version

2.0.0-alpha
Note: I'm using Dinero's default JS numbers, not BigInt or other.

Environment

Node v20

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[ng-hai]

I also get the same behavior

[ElChapitan]

It looked like the fractional part of the string is getting appended even if the scale is zero. Upon further reflection, might want to limit based on the currency exponent rather than the scale, but I'll hope for some input from the maintainers on that.

[ng-hai]

Agree with @ElChapitan, I had removed the scale option and had let the exponent do the thing. JPY looks normal now

[ElChapitan]

Agree with @ElChapitan, I had removed the scale option and had let the exponent do the thing. JPY looks normal now

The part that I'm not familiar with, but am curious. Is there a point where you'd want to pay attention to exponent instead? For instance, you could create a dinero object for the dollar that is scale 0 (but the currency is exponent 2). In that case, should toDecimal return 1 or 1.00.

[ng-hai]

At first I used @dinero/currency to check for specific currency to apply format. Our backend also returned a decimals config, I thought it would be the scale value, but it was not. The backend data follow ISO 4217 standard so it would be the same config for Currency object, no need that scale anymore.