ca.sqlpower.wabit.dao.session
Class WabitObjectConverter

java.lang.Object
  ca.sqlpower.wabit.dao.session.WabitObjectConverter

All Implemented Interfaces:

BidirectionalConverter<java.lang.String,WabitObject>

public class WabitObjectConverter
extends java.lang.Object
implements BidirectionalConverter<java.lang.String,WabitObject>

Converts WabitObjects to a unique string per wabit object and converts these strings into WabitObjects that are contained in the root.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface ca.sqlpower.wabit.dao.session.BidirectionalConverter

DELIMITER

Constructor Summary

WabitObjectConverter(WabitObject root)

Method Summary

WabitObject	convertToComplexType(java.lang.String convertFrom) Converts an object of type S to an object of type C.
java.lang.String	convertToSimpleType(WabitObject convertFrom, java.lang.Object... additionalValues) This method converts an object of type C to an object of type S.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

WabitObjectConverter

public WabitObjectConverter(WabitObject root)

Method Detail

convertToComplexType

public WabitObject convertToComplexType(java.lang.String convertFrom)
                                 throws org.apache.commons.beanutils.ConversionException

Description copied from interface: BidirectionalConverter

Converts an object of type S to an object of type C. The given object we are converting from must contain a valid representation of the object or else an IllegalArgumentException will be thrown.

Specified by:

convertToComplexType in interface BidirectionalConverter<java.lang.String,WabitObject>

Parameters:

convertFrom - The object to convert.

Returns:

The complex type representation of the object.

Throws:

org.apache.commons.beanutils.ConversionException - Thrown if the object could not be converted to a complex type even though the simple type is a correct representation.

convertToSimpleType

public java.lang.String convertToSimpleType(WabitObject convertFrom,
                                            java.lang.Object... additionalValues)

Description copied from interface: BidirectionalConverter

This method converts an object of type C to an object of type S.

Specified by:

convertToSimpleType in interface BidirectionalConverter<java.lang.String,WabitObject>

Parameters:

convertFrom - The object to convert.

additionalValues - Some types of object require some kind of additional information to be properly persisted which is passed through here. One specific place is when converting Cubes to get their data source. There is probably a better way of doing this.

Returns:

The simple type representation of the object.