Possible issue with how floats are handled in Lifecycle events

Entity has a float field

• Entity is annotated with Lifecycle Listeners (e.g. @PostPersist, @PreLoad)
• In the Lifecycle methods, operations are performed that involve the float field (e.g. base64 encoding/decoding),
• Since it is a numeric type, the PostPersist event converts it to a Base64 encoded String in the Document during persistence.
• During Read, on the decoding side, the PreLoad event converts the Base64 encoded String back to a float.
• It fails
• A workaround is to use Double instead of float.