FEP-0837: Federated Marketplace

Standards Fediverse Enhancement Proposals
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I’d like to update the recommendations related to representation of amounts. Currently we have this:

  • hasUnit (REQUIRED): name of the unit, according to Ontology of units of Measure classification. The RECOMMENDED unit for countable items is one.
  • hasNumericalValue (OPTIONAL): the amount of the resource. If not specified, arbitrary amounts can be used when responding to the proposal.

  1. The one unit is not a good fit for currency amounts. @lynnfoster, what are the alternatives? I found “amount of money”, is it supposed to be a unit label, e.g. "hasUnit": "amount of money"?

  2. hasNumericalValue is a string in all FEP-0837 examples, but this is not a requirement. I want to make serialization into decimal string mandatory, because JSON numbers should not be used for currency amounts.

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