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TypeConverter |
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| 1.0;1 |
1 | package org.apache.commons.ognl; | |
2 | ||
3 | /* | |
4 | * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one | |
5 | * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file | |
6 | * distributed with this work for additional information | |
7 | * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file | |
8 | * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the | |
9 | * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance | |
10 | * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at | |
11 | * | |
12 | * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 | |
13 | * | |
14 | * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, | |
15 | * software distributed under the License is distributed on an | |
16 | * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY | |
17 | * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the | |
18 | * specific language governing permissions and limitations | |
19 | * under the License. | |
20 | */ | |
21 | ||
22 | import java.lang.reflect.Member; | |
23 | import java.util.Map; | |
24 | ||
25 | /** | |
26 | * Interface for accessing the type conversion facilities within a context. | |
27 | * | |
28 | * @author Luke Blanshard (blanshlu@netscape.net) | |
29 | * @author Drew Davidson (drew@ognl.org) | |
30 | */ | |
31 | public interface TypeConverter | |
32 | { | |
33 | ||
34 | /** | |
35 | * Converts the given value to a given type. The OGNL context, target, member and name of property being set are | |
36 | * given. This method should be able to handle conversion in general without any context, target, member or property | |
37 | * name specified. | |
38 | * | |
39 | * @param context OGNL context under which the conversion is being done | |
40 | * @param target target object in which the property is being set | |
41 | * @param member member (Constructor, Method or Field) being set | |
42 | * @param propertyName property name being set | |
43 | * @param value value to be converted | |
44 | * @param toType type to which value is converted | |
45 | * @return Converted value of type toType or TypeConverter.NoConversionPossible to indicate that the conversion was | |
46 | * not possible. | |
47 | */ | |
48 | <T> T convertValue( Map<String, Object> context, Object target, Member member, String propertyName, Object value, | |
49 | Class<T> toType ); | |
50 | ||
51 | } |