Package org.jdesktop.application

Class ResourceConverter

java.lang.Object

org.jdesktop.application.ResourceConverter

public abstract class ResourceConverter
extends java.lang.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.

See Also:

ResourceMap

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class	Description
static class	ResourceConverter.ResourceConverterException

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
protected java.lang.Class	type

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Modifier	Constructor	Description
protected	ResourceConverter(java.lang.Class type)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static ResourceConverter	forType(java.lang.Class type)
abstract java.lang.Object	parseString(java.lang.String s, ResourceMap r)
static void	register(ResourceConverter resourceConverter)
boolean	supportsType(java.lang.Class testType)
java.lang.String	toString(java.lang.Object obj)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

type

protected final java.lang.Class type

Constructor Detail

ResourceConverter

protected ResourceConverter(java.lang.Class type)

Method Detail

parseString

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

Throws:

ResourceConverter.ResourceConverterException

toString

public java.lang.String toString(java.lang.Object obj)

supportsType

public boolean supportsType(java.lang.Class testType)

register

public static void register(ResourceConverter resourceConverter)

forType

public static ResourceConverter forType(java.lang.Class type)