3083660 - OData API: Decimal point ignored during upsert

You have encountered a behaviour where the numeric decimal value contained in your upsert is being ignored:

• You Upsert: 1234.50
•   UI Result: 12,345 (or 12,345.00)

• SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite
• OData API

You perform an upsert similar to below (but this can technically occur on any field of type double or float)

• {
    "__metadata": {
     "type": "SFOData.EmpPayCompRecurring",
     "uri": "EmpPayCompRecurring"
    },
        "userId": "TEST_USER",
        "startDate": "/Date(123456789000)/",
        "payComponent": "PAY_COMP",
        "paycompvalue": "1234.50",
        "currencyCode": "EUR",
        "frequency": "ANM"
   }

The Technical / API user user is configured to use a language which does not use decimal as a separator (e.g. Italian)

In such languages, decimal place serves the same numeric purpose as the comma in English hence it is is ignored 

To resolve such issues there is two options:

1.  Change the Technical / API user to one which uses English (or change the language of current user)
   
        Result: "paycompvalue": "1234.50" will achieve the desired result
     
     
2.  Change the format of the upsert payload:
      
        Result: "paycompvalue": "1234,50" will achieve the desired result

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