org.jdesktop.application

Class ResourceConverter

java.lang.Object

org.jdesktop.application.ResourceConverter

public abstract class ResourceConverter
extends Object

A base class for converting arbitrary types to and from Strings, as well as a registry of ResourceConverter implementations.

The supportsType method defines what types a ResourceConverter supports. By default it returns true for classes that are equal to the constructor's type argument. The parseType methods converts a string the ResourceConverter's supported type, and the toString does the inverse, it converts a supported type to a String. Concrete ResourceConverter subclasses must override parseType() and, in most cases, the toString method as well.

This class maintains a registry of ResourceConverters. The forType method returns the first ResourceConverter that supports a particular type, new ResourceConverters can be added with register(). A small set of generic ResourceConverters are registered by default. They support the following types:

• Boolean
• Integer
• Float
• Double
• Long
• Short
• Byte
• MessageFormat
• URL
• URI

The Boolean ResourceConverter returns true for "true", "on", "yes", false otherwise. The other primitive type ResourceConverters rely on the corresponding static parseType method, e.g. Integer.parseInt(). The MessageFormat ResourceConverter just creates MessageFormat object with the string as its constructor argument. The URL/URI converters just apply the corresponding constructor to the resource string.

Author:

Hans Muller (Hans.Muller@Sun.COM)

See Also:

ResourceMap

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class and Description
static class	ResourceConverter.ResourceConverterException

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
protected Class	type

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Modifier	Constructor and Description
protected	ResourceConverter(Class type)

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static ResourceConverter	forType(Class type) Returns ResourceConverter for the specified type
abstract Object	parseString(String s, ResourceMap r) Convert string to object
static void	register(ResourceConverter resourceConverter) Registers a ResourceConverter
boolean	supportsType(Class testType) Checks whether testType can be converted with this converter.
String	toString(Object obj) Null safe toString operation.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

type

protected final Class type

Constructor Detail

ResourceConverter

protected ResourceConverter(Class type)

Method Detail

parseString

public abstract Object parseString(String s,
                 ResourceMap r)
                            throws ResourceConverter.ResourceConverterException

Convert string to object

Parameters:

s - the string to be parsed

r - the ResourceMap

Returns:

the object which was created from the string

Throws:

ResourceConverter.ResourceConverterException

toString

public String toString(Object obj)

Null safe toString operation.

Parameters:

obj - the object to be converted to String

Returns:

result of obj.toString or "null"

supportsType

public boolean supportsType(Class testType)

Checks whether testType can be converted with this converter.

Parameters:

testType -

Returns:

true if testType can be converted with this converter.

register

public static void register(ResourceConverter resourceConverter)

Registers a ResourceConverter

Parameters:

resourceConverter - the resource converter to be registered

forType

public static ResourceConverter forType(Class type)

Returns ResourceConverter for the specified type

Parameters:

type - the type converter must be found for

Returns:

the converter for specified type or null if no converter is found for the type