LanguageValues and typesStandard typesPhysical quantities
Concentration
On this page
A mass in a volume: 5mgL or 1gL.
Use it for how much of something is dissolved, such as in lab results. A Mass over a Volume gives one. For blood sugar, use BloodGlucose.
Shape
One value, with no fields to fill in. As text it reads 35 gL.
Example
Concentration(5mgL)text.parse(raw, as: Concentration) reads one from text that comes from outside. Text that isn't one at all fails malformed, such as 5, 1.2.3 or five.
These operations give one: units.of and units.sum.
Good to know
- It is held in kilograms per cubic metre to 9 places.
==tells you whether two are the same, and<andlist.sort_bycompare and sort them.
In JSON
An object of its parts, in a request, a response or json.write:
{"value":"0.005","unit":"gL"}{"value":"1","unit":"gL"}{"value":"35","unit":"gL"}
Details
Text form, storage, how it is shown, and operations
Concentration is in the group Physical quantities, and has been in Jadpo since 0.1.0.
Text form
text.from writes one standard text form, the same form text.parse reads back: 0.005 gL, 1 gL and 35 gL.
How it is stored
It is stored in one column named for the field, of type numeric(38, 9), holding the concentration in grams per litre (g/L). 1 gL is stored as 1.
How it is shown to people
text.format(value, locale:) shows it to people in their locale. A call may also give unit:.
With locale: Locale.en_gb:
| Value | Shown |
|---|---|
0.005 gL |
0.005 g/L |
1 gL |
1 g/L |
35 gL |
35 g/L |
Operations
units.in(value: Quantity, unit: QuantityUnit, scale: Int, rounding: Rounding) -> Decimal:valueinunit, a unit of its kind, as aDecimalofscaleplaces rounded byrounding:units.in(5km, LengthUnit.mile, scale: 2, rounding: Rounding.half_even)is3.11.units.of(value: Number, unit: QuantityUnit) -> Quantity:valueofunit, anIntor aDecimal, as the quantity ofunit's kind, converted exactly to the base unit and rounded half to even to the kind's scale:units.of(5, LengthUnit.mile).units.sum(items: List<Quantity>) -> Quantity: The items added up, all of one kind; nothing for no items. ATemperatureor aSoundLeveldoesn't add to itself, so neither is summed.
It also takes text.parse, text.from, text.format, json.read, json.write and ==. How every standard type behaves says how they work.
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