cf env *appname* shows number in scientific format

[vmovva]

User provided service with number longer than 10 digits as value gets converted into scientific format when cf env *appname* is issued.

• Reproduction steps :

1. Create a CUPS : cf cups longnumbertest -p '{"longNumber":1234567890}'
2. Bind it to an application
3. Perform cf env appname
4. Notice that output shows something similar to :

"user-provided": [
{
"credentials": {
"longNumber": 1.23456789e+09
},
"label": "user-provided",
"name": "longnumbertest",
"syslog_drain_url": "",
"tags": []
}
]

Expectation is that cf env would show number in human readable format , 1234567890
Note: cf curl /v2/apps/appGUID/env shows human readable number format.

• CLI Version
  cf version 6.21.1+cd086c8-2016-08-18
• CC API Endpoint Version
  235

[cf-gitbot]

We have created an issue in Pivotal Tracker to manage this:

https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/130489629

The labels on this github issue will be updated when the story is started.

[dkoper]

There seems to be a related limitation in Golang.

My team tried fixing it but it required changes in code that is used by a lot of commands, and tests started failing after the change.
If it were a simple fix, we'd do it, but as it seems complicated with high risk of introducing regressions, we won't fix it at this time.
We may revisit this at a major version upgrade when the functionality of related commands can be changed.

Cheers,
Dies Koper
CF CLI PM