1 /******************************************************************************* 2 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 3 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 4 * distributed with this work for additional information 5 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 6 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 7 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 8 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 9 * 10 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 11 * 12 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 13 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 14 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 15 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 16 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 17 * under the License. 18 *******************************************************************************/ 19 package org.apache.commons.convert; 20 21 /** 22 * ConverterCreator interface. Classes implement this interface to create 23 * a converter that can convert one Java object type to another. 24 * 25 * <p> 26 * <code>ConverterCreator</code> is used to dynamically create converters 27 * for target classes that implement an interface. 28 * </p> 29 */ 30 public interface ConverterCreator { 31 /** Creates a Converter that can convert the <code>sourceClass</code> to 32 * the <code>targetClass</code>. Returns <code>null</code> if this creator 33 * doesn't support the class pair. 34 * 35 * @param sourceClass The source <code>Class</code> to convert from 36 * @param targetClass The target <code>Class</code> to convert to 37 * @return A <code>Converter</code> that can convert <code>sourceClass</code> 38 * to <code>targetClass</code> 39 */ 40 public <S, T> Converter<S, T> createConverter(Class<S> sourceClass, Class<T> targetClass); 41 }