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Base ConversionService implementation suitable for use in most environments. Indirectly implements ConverterRegistry as registration API through the ConfigurableConversionService interface. @author Keith Donald @author Juergen Hoeller @author Chris Beams @author Phillip Webb @since 3.0

Convenience operation for converting a source object to the specified targetType, where the targetType is a descriptor that provides additional conversion context. Simply delegates to .convert(Object, TypeDescriptor, TypeDescriptor) andand encapsulates the construction of the sourceType descriptor usingusing TypeDescriptor.forObject(Object). @param source the source object @param targetType the target type @return the converted value @throws ConversionException if a conversion exception occurred @throws IllegalArgumentException if targetType is null @throws IllegalArgumentExceptionnull, ifor sourceType is null but source is not null

Hook method to lookup the converter for a given sourceType/targetType pair. First queries this ConversionService's converter cache. On a cache miss, then performs an exhaustive search for a matching converter. If no converter matches, returns the default converter. Subclasses may override. @param sourceType the source type to convert from @param targetType the target type to convert to @return the generic converter that will perform the conversion, or {@code null if} if no suitable converter was found @see #getDefaultConverter(TypeDescriptor, TypeDescriptor)