Issue 121192 - service EnumerableMap is too restrictive on data types
Summary: service EnumerableMap is too restrictive on data types
Status: UNCONFIRMED
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Product: App Dev
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Component: api (show other issues)
Version: 3.3.0 or older (OOo)
Hardware: All All
: P3 Normal
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Reported: 2012-10-10 10:20 UTC by bmarcelly
Modified: 2013-02-24 21:06 UTC (History)
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Description bmarcelly 2012-10-10 10:20:47 UTC 
If an enumerable map is declared as using a value of type long, it will not accept in Basic a value like 1234, because it is interpreted as short.
This probably happens with other language bindings.
Example:

Option Explicit

Sub Main
' Needs AOO 3.4.1 that solves Bug 116184
Dim dico As Object, enu As Object, elem As Variant, ville As String

dico = com.sun.star.container.EnumerableMap.create("string", "long")
dico.put("Angers",   49000) ' key "Angers", Item 49000

dico.put("Foix", 9000) ' throws IllegalTypeException ***

dico.put("Foix", CreateUnoValue("long", 9000)) ' works, but cumbersome
End Sub

The same problem can also happen with keys.
Keys and values handling should use the service c.s.s.script.Converter to widen from one type to another when it is possible (e.g. short > long or long > double).