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Interface AttributeConverter

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractStringValueOfAttributeConverter, BooleanAttributeConverter, ByteAttributeConverter, CharacterAttributeConverter, DateAttributeConverter, DoubleAttributeConverter, FloatAttributeConverter, IntegerAttributeConverter, LongAttributeConverter, ShortAttributeConverter, StringAttributeConverter

public interface AttributeConverter

Interface for converting to and from objects and strings. Used for loading custom data from XML process definitions into nodes as well as transforming process/token/token set Env attributes to and from database friendly strings.

AttributeConverters should be registered with and used from the AttributeConverters class.

Author:

Paul Lorenz

Method Summary

String	objectToString(Object object) Converts the given object into string format.
Object	stringToObject(String string, Class<?> type) Converts the given string into an object of the given type.

Method Detail

objectToString

String objectToString(Object object)

Converts the given object into string format.

Parameters:

object - The object to converter

Returns:

The object in string format

stringToObject

Object stringToObject(String string,
                      Class<?> type)

Converts the given string into an object of the given type.

Parameters:

string - The string to be converted into an object

type - The type to transform the string into

Returns:

The object produced from the string