public interface Converter
General purpose data type converter that can be registered and used within the BeanUtils package to manage the conversion of objects from one type to another.
Converter subclasses bundled with the BeanUtils library are required to be thread-safe, as users of the library may call conversion methods from more than one thread simultaneously.
Custom converter subclasses created by users of the library can be non-thread-safe if the application using them is single-threaded. However it is recommended that they be written in a thread-safe manner anyway.
Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
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<T> T |
convert(Class<T> type,
Object value)
Convert the specified input object into an output object of the
specified type.
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<T> T convert(Class<T> type, Object value)
T
- the desired result typetype
- Data type to which this value should be convertedvalue
- The input value to be convertedConversionException
- if conversion cannot be performed
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