Converter

All Superinterfaces:: PropertyEditor

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

public interface Converter extends PropertyEditor

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

Method Summary

Modifier and Type

Method

Description

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

Method Details
- getType
  
  Class getType()
  
  Gets the the type of object supported by this converter.
  
  Returns:
  
  the type used for that converter.
- 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