nl.openedge.baritus.converters
Interface Converter

All Known Subinterfaces:

LocaleConverter

All Known Implementing Classes:

BaseLocaleConverter, BooleanConverter, ByteConverter, CharacterConverter, DoubleConverter, FloatConverter, IntegerConverter, LongConverter, NoopConverter, ShortConverter

public interface Converter

General purpose data type converter. For this interface has the same signature of the BeanUtils package, so it's easy to convert/ re-use converters.

Author:

Eelco Hillenius

Method Summary

java.lang.Object

convert(java.lang.Class type, java.lang.Object value) Convert the specified input object into an output object of the specified type.

Method Detail

convert

public java.lang.Object convert(java.lang.Class type,
                                java.lang.Object value)

Convert the specified input object into an output object of the specified type.

Parameters:

type - Data type to which this value should be converted

value - The input value to be converted

Throws:

ConversionException - if conversion cannot be performed successfully