Converter

All Superinterfaces:

java.beans.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 java.beans.PropertyEditor
```
Version:

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

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`java.lang.Class`	`getType()`	Gets the the type of object supported by this converter.
`java.lang.Object`	`toObject(java.lang.String text)`	Converts the supplied text in to an instance of the editor type.
`java.lang.String`	`toString(java.lang.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
```
java.lang.Class getType()
```
    Gets the the type of object supported by this converter.
    
    Returns:
    
    the type used for that converter.
  - toString
```
java.lang.String toString(java.lang.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
```
java.lang.Object toObject(java.lang.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