nl.openedge.baritus.converters
Interface LocaleConverter

All Superinterfaces:

Converter

All Known Implementing Classes:

BaseLocaleConverter

public interface LocaleConverter

extends 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, java.lang.String pattern) Convert the specified locale-sensitive input object into an output object of the specified type.

Methods inherited from interface nl.openedge.baritus.converters.Converter

convert

Method Detail

convert

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

Convert the specified locale-sensitive 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

pattern - The user-defined pattern is used for the input object formatting.

Throws:

ConversionException - if conversion cannot be performed successfully