How to send a bigdecimal by DataOutputStream

Question

Hi Folks!
Can anybody tell me how i can send a bigDecimal to my client through DataOutputStream object. There are methods in DataOutputStream class for sending long,int,string,double,short and so on BUT there is nothing for bigDecimal.
Here is my code.
  Socket cs;
  DataInputStream br;
  DataOutputStream dos;
public void run(){
try{
     BigDecimal bd = new BigDecimal ( 12342342.234234 ) ;
     bd = bd.setScale ( 1, BigDecimal.ROUND_DOWN ) ;
     System.out.println ( bd ) ;
   //here how i cant send my BigDecimal those dos object?
   dos.
}catch(Exception e){}
}Thanks in Advance

Answer 1

you are correct there is a method bytevalue() in bigDecimal class. which conver my bigDecimal value into bytevalue. WORKS FINE. but on the client side when i receive "BYTEVALUE()" how can i bring it back to the original. Because ofcurse i am gettin my coverted byte value not the original value of bigDecimal..
Here's how i convert Bigdecimal into bytevalue
     System.out.println("Original "+bd);
     dos.writeByte(bd.byteValue());
     System.out.println("BigInt byte values. "+bd.byteValue());
     dos.flush();now on client side thats how i read it,, BUT bytevalue not the original
    byte b = br.readByte();   
    System.out.println("I got byte value of bigint " + b);   
Thanks in advance