public interface GenericConverter
This is the most flexible of the Converter SPI interfaces, but also the most complex.
It is flexible in that a GenericConverter may support converting between multiple source/target
type pairs (see getConvertibleTypes()
. In addition, GenericConverter implementations
have access to source/target field context
during the type conversion
process. This allows for resolving source and target field metadata such as annotations and
generics information, which can be used to influence the conversion logic.
This interface should generally not be used when the simpler Converter
or
ConverterFactory
interface is sufficient.
Implementations may additionally implement ConditionalConverter
.
TypeDescriptor
,
Converter
,
ConverterFactory
,
ConditionalConverter
Modifier and Type | Interface and Description |
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static class |
GenericConverter.ConvertiblePair
Holder for a source-to-target class pair.
|
Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
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Object |
convert(Object source,
TypeDescriptor sourceType,
TypeDescriptor targetType)
Convert the source object to the targetType described by the
TypeDescriptor . |
Set<GenericConverter.ConvertiblePair> |
getConvertibleTypes()
Return the source and target types that this converter can convert between.
|
Set<GenericConverter.ConvertiblePair> getConvertibleTypes()
Each entry is a convertible source-to-target type pair.
For conditional converters
this method may return
null
to indicate all source-to-target pairs should be considered.
Object convert(Object source, TypeDescriptor sourceType, TypeDescriptor targetType)
TypeDescriptor
.source
- the source object to convert (may be null
)sourceType
- the type descriptor of the field we are converting fromtargetType
- the type descriptor of the field we are converting to