org.databene.benerator.composite
Class ComponentTypeConverter

java.lang.Object
  org.databene.commons.converter.AbstractConverter<Entity,Entity>
      org.databene.benerator.composite.ComponentTypeConverter

All Implemented Interfaces:

Converter<Entity,Entity>, ThreadAware

public class ComponentTypeConverter
extends AbstractConverter<Entity,Entity>

Converts an Entity's components to the type specified by the EntityDescriptor. This is used for e.g. importing Entities from file with String component values and converting them to the correct target type.

Created at 06.05.2008 11:34:46

Since:

0.5.3

Author:

Volker Bergmann

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.databene.commons.converter.AbstractConverter

sourceType, targetType

Constructor Summary

ComponentTypeConverter(ComplexTypeDescriptor type)

Method Summary

Entity	convert(Entity entity) Concerts an object of type S to an object of type T
boolean	isParallelizable()
boolean	isThreadSafe()

Methods inherited from class org.databene.commons.converter.AbstractConverter

getSourceType, getTargetType

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ComponentTypeConverter

public ComponentTypeConverter(ComplexTypeDescriptor type)

Method Detail

convert

public Entity convert(Entity entity)
               throws ConversionException

Description copied from interface: Converter

Concerts an object of type S to an object of type T

Parameters:

entity - the object to convert

Returns:

the converted object

Throws:

ConversionException - if the conversion fails

isParallelizable

public boolean isParallelizable()

isThreadSafe

public boolean isThreadSafe()