org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.value

Class Conversions.Converter

java.lang.Object

org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.value.Conversions.Converter

Enclosing class:

Conversions

public abstract static class Conversions.Converter
extends java.lang.Object

A converter converts a value to its representation as a specific target type. Not all target types might be supported for a given value in which case implementations throw an exception. The default implementations of the various conversion methods all operate on the string representation of the underlying value (i.e. call Converter.toString().

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Converter()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Blob	toBinary() Convert to binary.
boolean	toBoolean() Convert to boolean.
java.util.Calendar	toCalendar() Convert to date.
java.lang.String	toDate() Convert to date.
java.math.BigDecimal	toDecimal() Convert to decimal.
double	toDouble() Convert to double.
long	toLong() Convert to long.
abstract java.lang.String	toString() Convert to string

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Converter

public Converter()

Method Detail

toString

public abstract java.lang.String toString()

Convert to string

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

Returns:

string representation of the converted value

toBinary

public Blob toBinary()

Convert to binary. This default implementation returns an new instance of StringBasedBlob.

Returns:

binary representation of the converted value

toLong

public long toLong()

Convert to long. This default implementation is based on Long.parseLong(String).

Returns:

long representation of the converted value

Throws:

java.lang.NumberFormatException

toDouble

public double toDouble()

Convert to double. This default implementation is based on Double.parseDouble(String).

Returns:

double representation of the converted value

Throws:

java.lang.NumberFormatException

toCalendar

public java.util.Calendar toCalendar()

Convert to date. This default implementation is based on ISO8601.parse(String).

Returns:

date representation of the converted value

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if the string cannot be parsed into a date

toDate

public java.lang.String toDate()

Convert to date. This default implementation delegates to toCalendar() and returns the ISO8601.format(Calendar) value of the calendar.

Returns:

date representation of the converted value

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if the string cannot be parsed into a date

toBoolean

public boolean toBoolean()

Convert to boolean. This default implementation is based on Boolean.parseBoolean(String).

Returns:

boolean representation of the converted value

toDecimal

public java.math.BigDecimal toDecimal()

Convert to decimal. This default implementation is based on new BigDecimal(String).

Returns:

decimal representation of the converted value

Throws:

java.lang.NumberFormatException