001 /* 002 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 003 * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with 004 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. 005 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 006 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with 007 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 008 * 009 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 010 * 011 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 012 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 013 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 014 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 015 * limitations under the License. 016 */ 017 package org.apache.commons.beanutils.converters; 018 019 /** 020 * {@link org.apache.commons.beanutils.Converter} implementaion that handles conversion 021 * to and from <b>java.lang.Character</b> objects. 022 * <p> 023 * Can be configured to either return a <i>default value</i> or throw a 024 * <code>ConversionException</code> if a conversion error occurs. 025 * 026 * @author Craig R. McClanahan 027 * @version $Revision: 640131 $ $Date: 2008-03-23 02:10:31 +0000 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) $ 028 * @since 1.3 029 */ 030 public final class CharacterConverter extends AbstractConverter { 031 032 /** 033 * Construct a <b>java.lang.Character</b> <i>Converter</i> that throws 034 * a <code>ConversionException</code> if an error occurs. 035 */ 036 public CharacterConverter() { 037 super(); 038 } 039 040 /** 041 * Construct a <b>java.lang.Character</b> <i>Converter</i> that returns 042 * a default value if an error occurs. 043 * 044 * @param defaultValue The default value to be returned 045 * if the value to be converted is missing or an error 046 * occurs converting the value. 047 */ 048 public CharacterConverter(Object defaultValue) { 049 super(defaultValue); 050 } 051 052 /** 053 * Return the default type this <code>Converter</code> handles. 054 * 055 * @return The default type this <code>Converter</code> handles. 056 */ 057 protected Class getDefaultType() { 058 return Character.class; 059 } 060 061 /** 062 * <p>Convert a java.lang.Class or object into a String.</p> 063 * 064 * @param value The input value to be converted 065 * @return the converted String value. 066 */ 067 protected String convertToString(Object value) { 068 String strValue = value.toString(); 069 return strValue.length() == 0 ? "" : strValue.substring(0, 1); 070 } 071 072 /** 073 * <p>Convert the input object into a java.lang.Character.</p> 074 * 075 * @param type Data type to which this value should be converted. 076 * @param value The input value to be converted. 077 * @return The converted value. 078 * @throws Exception if conversion cannot be performed successfully 079 */ 080 protected Object convertToType(Class type, Object value) throws Exception { 081 return new Character(value.toString().charAt(0)); 082 } 083 084 }