FYI, there is a sandbox project [convert] that I tried to setup to be a
dedicted converter project. I ran out of time, so it never got completed,
but you may want to take a look.
Note that JDK1.5 compilation is going to cause issues to commons in general.
Stephen
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From: "Kris Nuttycombe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'm just starting to play around with generics, and thought that
> org.apache.commons.beanutils.Converter might be an interesting candidate
> for generification. A good generified converter library is broadly
> useful outside of BeanUtils.
>
> Here's my first thought on generifying the Converter interface:
>
> public interface Converter<I,O>{
> /**
> * Convert the specified input object into an output object of the
> * specified type.
> *
> * @param type Data type to which this value should be converted
> * @param value The input value to be converted
> *
> * @exception ConversionException if conversion cannot be performed
> * successfully
> */
> public O convert(Class<O> type, I value);
> }
>
> Comments, suggestions?
>
> Kris
>
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