Go-ethereum: Problem with BigInt(long l). Too short to create transaction with value more than 9.2ETH (Android)

[overetch]

Hello everyone. Can somebody help with Ethereum Transaction? I am working on Android(java) and using org.ethereum:geth:1.8.2.
My problem with 'BigInt(long l)' . In java long max value = 9223372036854775807. So basically i can't send more than 9.2 eth. Is there another way to create transaction without these limits?

Transaction's constructor:
public Transaction(long var1, Address var3, BigInt var4, long var5, BigInt var7, byte[] var8){
}

[ligi]

Very good point! Thanks for the catch. Solution could be a BigInt(String). A workaround for you now: either use Kethereum or Web3j to construct the TX and then newTransactionFromRLP() to get it into geth

[karalabe]

How about this?

x = new BigInt(0)
x.SetString("99999999999999999999999", 10)

[ligi]

Good point - quite hard to discover for somebody who has not designed the api though ..-)

[overetch]

@karalabe @ligi
Thank you all, it works ! I think the question can be closed.

[karalabe]

It's not your fault. I tried to mimic the go big int library. It might be
unintuitive if you're not used to it. A second constructor would help and
should be added imho.

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 17:41 ligi [e-mail] wrote:

Closed #16337 https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/16337.

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[sempiecampos]

this works also

String wei = Convert.toWei(ammount, Convert.Unit.ETHER).toString();
BigInt tt = new BigInt(0);
tt.setString(wei,10);