org.apache.xbean.propertyeditor
Interface Converter

All Superinterfaces:

PropertyEditor

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractCollectionConverter, AbstractConverter, AbstractMapConverter, ArrayConverter, ArrayListEditor, BigDecimalEditor, BigIntegerEditor, BooleanEditor, ByteEditor, CharacterEditor, ClassEditor, CommonsLoggingConverter, DateEditor, DoubleEditor, EnumConverter, FileEditor, FloatEditor, GenericCollectionConverter, GenericMapConverter, HashMapEditor, HashtableEditor, IdentityHashMapEditor, Inet4AddressEditor, Inet6AddressEditor, InetAddressEditor, IntegerEditor, JndiConverter, LinkedHashMapEditor, LinkedHashSetEditor, LinkedListEditor, ListEditor, Log4jConverter, LoggerConverter, LongEditor, MapEditor, ObjectNameEditor, PatternConverter, PropertiesEditor, SetEditor, ShortEditor, SortedMapEditor, SortedSetEditor, StringEditor, TreeMapEditor, TreeSetEditor, URIEditor, URLEditor, VectorEditor, WeakHashMapEditor

public interface Converter
extends PropertyEditor

Version:

$Rev: 6680 $ $Date: 2005-12-24T04:38:27.427468Z $

Method Summary

Class	getType() Gets the the type of object supported by this converter.
Object	toObject(String text) Converts the supplied text in to an instance of the editor type.
String	toString(Object value) Converts the supplied object to text.

Methods inherited from interface java.beans.PropertyEditor

addPropertyChangeListener, getAsText, getCustomEditor, getJavaInitializationString, getTags, getValue, isPaintable, paintValue, removePropertyChangeListener, setAsText, setValue, supportsCustomEditor

Method Detail

getType

Class getType()

Gets the the type of object supported by this converter.

Returns:

toString

String toString(Object value)
                throws PropertyEditorException

Converts the supplied object to text. If value is null, null will be returned. If value is not an instance of the this converter's type, a PropertyEditorException will be thrown.

Parameters:

value - an instance of the editor type

Returns:

the text equivalent of the value

Throws:

PropertyEditorException - if an error occurs while converting the value to a String (this is very rare)

toObject

Object toObject(String text)
                throws PropertyEditorException

Converts the supplied text in to an instance of the editor type. If text is null, null will be returned.

Parameters:

text - the text to convert

Returns:

an instance of the editor type

Throws:

PropertyEditorException - if an error occurs while converting the text to an object