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Closes #148.

Currency.ValueAsNumber answered an out-of-range amount three different ways: a positive one clamped to decimal.MaxValue, a negative one threw FormatException, and a very small one quietly became zero.

XRPL issued currency runs from 1e-81 to roughly 1e96 — a 16-digit mantissa with an exponent in [-96, 80], per rippled's STAmount — while decimal stops near 7.9e28. No amount of parsing changes that. The only thing actually available is how to fail, and this PR picks one answer instead of three.

What changes

input before after
1e29, 9e80 79228162514264337593543950335 AmountOutOfRangeException
-1e29, -9e80 FormatException AmountOutOfRangeException
1e-96 0 0 (unchanged)
abc FormatException FormatException (unchanged)
-100, 1.5e-10 correct correct

The exception carries the value as the node sent it, so the real figure is still reachable — refusing to answer should not also destroy the evidence.

Why the clamp had to go rather than just the parse bug

Answering 1e96 with 7.9e28 is wrong by 67 orders of magnitude, and it did not stay contained. GetBalanceChanges subtracts two balances, so the clamped value went on to throw OverflowException from the arithmetic — one silent lie turning into a second, unrelated exception that a caller had no way to trace back.

Fixing only AllowLeadingSign would have removed the FormatException and left that path exactly as it was.

The parse bug itself

The fallback's NumberStyles expression evaluated to AllowExponent | AllowDecimalPointAllowLeadingSign missing — so no negative value could reach the branch written to handle it.

Worth recording: the primary parse was correct all along. Its six & terms all evaluate to zero and the three standalone flags leave 164 = AllowLeadingSign | AllowDecimalPoint | AllowExponent. Only the fallback was wrong. Both are now one named constant.

Underflow stays zero, deliberately

The ledger reaches down to 1e-81 and decimal stops near 1e-28, so small amounts still round to zero rather than throwing. A balance that size is zero at any scale a caller can act on, and failing over it would cost more than it protects. An amount of 1e96 reported as 7.9e28 is not in that category. The asymmetry is written down where the code makes it, not left to be inferred.

Offer.AmountEach, which #148 did not cover

BookOffers.cs:101 reads the same property on both sides of an order and divides them, on values anyone may place in the book. Before this it could return a plausible-looking exchange rate wrong by 67 orders of magnitude, without throwing — on a property whose only purpose is being compared against other offers. It now fails the same single way, and both it and GetBalanceChanges document what they do on untrusted amounts instead of leaving it to be discovered in production.

Also: Console.WriteLine(exception) is out of the parse path. A library does not write to the console.

Tests

Six new, in TestUCurrency. One of them exists specifically to keep the others honest: a negative amount inside the range must still parse. Without it the overflow tests would pass on an implementation that simply refused every negative value — and negative balances are ordinary, since a RippleState balance is negative from the low account's side.

Restoring the clamp fails three of the six. Full suite: 1362 green.

TestCurrency.cs previously had 12 tests on ValueAsNumber, every one a round trip inside decimal range — no case above it, below it, or negative-and-out-of-range. That is why none of this was visible.

Version

11.0.0.011.1.0.0. Minor rather than patch: code that read an out-of-range amount used to get a number and now gets an exception, which is a contract change even though no signature moved.

Xrpl.BinaryCodec, Xrpl.AddressCodec and Xrpl.Keypairs are untouched and keep their versions.

Not in scope

Representing the full range instead of refusing it — an exact amount type over BigInteger mantissa and exponent, the model rippled and xrpl.js both use — is #150. This PR makes the interim behaviour honest while that is decided.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Currency amounts outside the supported decimal range now throw a clear AmountOutOfRangeException.
    • Very small amounts continue to convert to zero, while negative values and invalid formats are handled correctly.
    • Currency formatting, rounding, offer calculations, and balance changes now preserve precision and surface overflow consistently.
    • Removed unintended console logging.
  • Documentation

    • Updated guidance and changelog details for amount handling and breaking runtime behavior.
  • Release

    • Updated package version to 11.1.0.0 and BinaryCodec version to 11.0.1.0.

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Currency.ValueAsNumber answered an out-of-range amount three different ways: a
positive one clamped to decimal.MaxValue, a negative one threw FormatException,
and a very small one quietly became zero.

XRPL issued currency runs from 1e-81 to roughly 1e96 - a 16-digit mantissa with
an exponent in [-96, 80], per rippled's STAmount - while decimal stops near
7.9e28. No parsing changes that. The only thing available is how to fail.

The clamp is gone. Above the range this now throws AmountOutOfRangeException,
carrying the value as the node sent it. Answering 1e96 with 7.9e28 is wrong by
67 orders of magnitude, and it did not stay contained: GetBalanceChanges
subtracts two balances, so the clamped value went on to throw OverflowException
from the arithmetic instead - one silent lie turning into a second, unrelated
exception a caller could not diagnose.

The negative case was a plain bug. The fallback's NumberStyles expression came
to AllowExponent | AllowDecimalPoint, missing AllowLeadingSign, so no negative
value could reach the branch written to handle it. The primary parse was
correct throughout, despite six & terms that all evaluate to zero.

An amount below 1e-28 still returns zero, and that asymmetry is deliberate: a
balance of 1e-81 rounded to zero is zero at any scale a caller can act on, so
failing over it would cost more than it protects.

Offer.AmountEach reads the same property on both sides of an order and divides
them, on values anyone may place in the book. It used to return a
plausible-looking exchange rate that was wrong by 67 orders of magnitude
without throwing at all. It and GetBalanceChanges now document what they do on
untrusted amounts rather than leaving it to be found.

Console.WriteLine(exception) is out of the parse path.

Six tests, including that a negative amount inside the range still parses -
without it the same tests would pass on an implementation that refused every
negative value, and negative balances are ordinary. Restoring the clamp fails
three of them.

Minor rather than patch: code that read an out-of-range amount used to get a
number and now gets an exception, which is a contract change even though no
signature moved. Representing the full range rather than refusing it is #150.
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Currency amount parsing now reports decimal overflow with AmountOutOfRangeException, preserves underflow-to-zero behavior, and distinguishes malformed values. Offer and balance calculations propagate the new behavior. Tests, documentation, changelog entries, and package versions were updated.

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Currency range handling

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Typed currency parsing
Xrpl/Client/Exceptions/AmountOutOfRangeException.cs, Xrpl/Models/Common/Currency.cs
Adds a typed exception that preserves the ledger value. Currency.ValueAsNumber now distinguishes valid decimals, numeric overflow, underflow, and invalid syntax. Currency.ToString() preserves raw values when parsing fails.
Downstream consumers and validation
Xrpl/Models/Transactions/BookOffers.cs, Xrpl/Utils/GetBalanceChanges.cs, Tests/Xrpl.Tests/Models/TestCurrency.cs, Tests/Xrpl.Tests/Utils/GetBalanceChangesTests.cs
Offer.AmountEach reads both amounts before checking the denominator. Tests cover overflow, negative values, underflow, rounding, dust preservation, offer arithmetic, and balance-change propagation.
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CHANGES.md, Xrpl/Xrpl.csproj, Base/Xrpl.BinaryCodec/Xrpl.BinaryCodec.csproj
The changelog records the updated parsing and signing-path behavior. The project versions are incremented to 11.1.0.0 and 11.0.1.0.

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In `@Xrpl/Models/Common/Currency.cs`:
- Around line 123-129: Update the fallback parsing in Currency.ValueAsNumber so
NaN, Infinity, and -Infinity are reported as FormatException rather than
AmountOutOfRangeException; only finite double values that decimal cannot
represent should remain out-of-range. Add regression tests covering these
floating-point symbols.

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- Around line 102-109: Update the order-book ratio calculation to evaluate both
TakerPays.Value and TakerGets.Value before the zero-denominator early return, so
an out-of-range TakerGets still raises AmountOutOfRangeException. Add a
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Review findings, both accepted.

double.TryParse accepts "NaN", "Infinity" and "-Infinity" whatever NumberStyles
it is handed - those symbols are matched separately from the numeric ones.
Since the test that separates "will not fit" from "is not a number" runs through
double, all three came back as AmountOutOfRangeException: a confident statement
about magnitude for a string that has none. Checked against the runtime rather
than taken on the reviewer's word, then guarded with double.IsFinite.

Offer.AmountEach read its two sides lazily, so the early return for a zero
TakerPays skipped TakerGets entirely - an unrepresentable numerator went
unnoticed whenever the denominator happened to be zero. The exception this
branch documents was therefore not one a caller could rely on: whether it
appeared depended on the value of an unrelated field. Both sides are read
first. It also parsed TakerPays twice, and ValueAsNumber parses on every read.

The second is the one worth noting. The documentation added in the previous
commit claimed something the code did not do, in a change whose whole subject
is not saying false things about values.

Four tests. Removing IsFinite fails one, restoring the lazy read fails another.
… on it

Review findings.

ToString interpolates ValueAsNumber, so making the getter throw made ToString
throw with it - for positives, which used to print a clamped number, as well as
for negatives, which already threw. By convention ToString does not throw, and
the places it is reached from are logging, string interpolation and a debugger's
watch window: exactly where someone would be while working out why an amount is
unusual. Failing there hides the value at the moment it is most wanted. It now
falls back to the raw string, which is what the node sent.

Two tests were missing behind claims already made.

GetBalanceChanges documents that it throws on an out-of-range amount, and
nothing exercised that through GetBalanceChanges - only a hand-written
subtraction imitating what it does. Imitating the arithmetic proves the
arithmetic; it does not prove the method reaches it, which is what the
documentation promises. Now driven through the method, on a negative balance in
a RippleState node - the ordinary shape from the low account's side, and the
case that used to fail as FormatException.

And one edge is documented rather than fixed: writing decimal.MaxValue through
the setter formats with G16, which rounds the mantissa up past what decimal
holds, so the SDK can write a string the ledger would accept and then refuse to
read it. The window is the last ~7e12 below decimal.MaxValue, reachable only by
assigning a number no token amount would be, and changing how the setter rounds
would touch every round trip in the type to rescue a value nobody writes. The
test states the decision so the next person meets one rather than a surprise.

Restoring the clamp now fails seven tests.
Checked against rippled first, which changed what this should be.

I had proposed replacing G16 with truncation, on the belief that rippled
truncates a mantissa when normalising. It does not: Number.cpp sets
RoundingMode::ToNearest as the default, which is what G16 already does. Making
the SDK truncate would have moved it away from the protocol, not toward it. The
rounding stays.

What is left is narrow. At the top of decimal's own range, rounding to nearest
rounds up past what the type holds, so the setter wrote a string it then refused
to read - a valid ledger amount the SDK produced and could not consume. There,
and only there, the sixteenth digit is truncated instead; truncating cannot
overflow, because dropping digits only moves a number toward zero.

Dust is pinned by a test. Balances like 0.000000000000000001 arrive from the
network and must go back out, and they are safe because the ledger's limit is
sixteen significant digits while dust carries one. The test exists because the
obvious way to bound precision - truncating to sixteen decimal places rather
than significant digits - turns 1e-18 into zero, and a remainder would vanish in
silence. That mutation fails it.

ValueAsNumber_16Digits_NeverRoundsUp asserted that a round trip must not
increase a value. The protocol makes no such promise, and the test could not
have caught a violation anyway: its input has exactly sixteen significant
digits, so there was nothing to round. Replaced by the property that does hold,
and by one stating the rounding outright so the next reader does not repeat the
mistake I nearly shipped.

Also written down: why the setter rounds while the codec refuses more than
sixteen digits. They see different inputs. Seventeen digits cannot arrive from
the network - rippled normalises the mantissa into [1e15, 1e16) before
serialising - so the codec only ever meets a hand-written string, while the
setter meets computed decimals that routinely carry 28. AmmMath returns them.
…ed it

Release preparation for 27/08, found by checking what actually changed since
11.0.0.0 rather than by looking at this branch alone.

Xrpl.BinaryCodec/XrplBinaryCodec.cs changed in #147 and the package version did
not. Promoting that way publishes nothing: dotnet nuget push runs with
--skip-duplicate, so a package whose version already exists on the feed is
passed over in silence, and the fix reaches no consumer while the run stays
green. Moved to 11.0.1.0 - a performance fix with no contract change, so patch.

The same PR left no CHANGES.md entry. A 1.73x change on the path every signing
operation takes is not a silent one, so it has one now, with the measurement and
with why the usual telling of that bug oversells it.

Xrpl stays at 11.1.0.0: this release carries a contract change, since code that
read an out-of-range amount used to get a number and now gets an exception.
AddressCodec, Keypairs and both X402 packages are untouched and keep their
versions - they are consumed by ProjectReference, so a package built at a newer
version keeps depending on the published ones.

CHANGES.md still opens with "## Unreleased". Stamping it belongs to the
promotion, when the date is known.
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