org.apache.jackrabbit.ocm.manager.atomictypeconverter
Interface AtomicTypeConverter

All Known Implementing Classes:

BinaryTypeConverterImpl, BooleanTypeConverterImpl, ByteArrayTypeConverterImpl, CalendarTypeConverterImpl, Date2LongTypeConverterImpl, DoubleTypeConverterImpl, EnumTypeConverter, IntTypeConverterImpl, LongTypeConverterImpl, NameTypeConverterImpl, NullTypeConverterImpl, PathTypeConverterImpl, ReferenceTypeConverterImpl, StringTypeConverterImpl, TimestampTypeConverterImpl, UndefinedTypeConverterImpl, UtilDateTypeConverterImpl

public interface AtomicTypeConverter

AtomicTypeConverter interface. The Object converter used atomic type converters to map atomic fields to JCR Value objects. Amotic fields are primitive java types and their wrapper classes.

Author:

Christophe Lombart, Alexandru Popescu

Method Summary

Object	getObject(javax.jcr.Value value) Convert a jcr property value into an object
javax.jcr.Value	getValue(javax.jcr.ValueFactory valueFactory, Object object) Convert an object into a JCR value.
String	getXPathQueryValue(javax.jcr.ValueFactory valueFactory, Object object) Get the string converted value.

Method Detail

getValue

javax.jcr.Value getValue(javax.jcr.ValueFactory valueFactory,
                         Object object)

Convert an object into a JCR value.

Parameters:

valueFactory - The JCR ValueFactory

object - The object to convert

Returns:

the corresponding JCR value

getObject

Object getObject(javax.jcr.Value value)

Convert a jcr property value into an object

Parameters:

value - The JCR property value

Returns:

the corresponding object

getXPathQueryValue

String getXPathQueryValue(javax.jcr.ValueFactory valueFactory,
                          Object object)

Get the string converted value. This is mainly used to build xpath expressions

Parameters:

valueFactory - The JCR ValueFactory

object - The object value

Returns:

The string converted value