Costs: do not mix them up! Sometimes fiscal,sometimes metric
Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2018 7:48 am
Hi there,
This applies to xRoute1!
today a customer was confused by the output values of his ExtendedRoute's inner cost value. His expectation was "this is a financial value and it is way too high.". Unfortunately the RouteInfo class is used in various contexts and the meaning of it's cost property depends on the context. I hope the attached image helps:
So while this player expected the "cost" value to be a financial value it is used as toll distance or a metric (applied to compare different paths) but not as a price.
Prices are returned in properties such as
Bernd
This applies to xRoute1!
today a customer was confused by the output values of his ExtendedRoute's inner cost value. His expectation was "this is a financial value and it is way too high.". Unfortunately the RouteInfo class is used in various contexts and the meaning of it's cost property depends on the context. I hope the attached image helps:
- Depending on the context of a RouteInfo object the meaning is either a toll distance or a metric but it is never a price
Prices are returned in properties such as
- TollCostInfo.tollPrice: int = toll price of a toll section
- TollTotals.cost: int = The total toll costs within a country.
- TollCost.cost: int = The cost.
Bernd