Clover coverage report - Code Coverage for tapestry release 4.0-alpha-3
Coverage timestamp: Mon May 16 2005 09:05:49 EDT
file stats: LOC: 44   Methods: 0
NCLOC: 4   Classes: 1
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 // Copyright 2004, 2005 The Apache Software Foundation
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 //
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 // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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 // you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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 // You may obtain a copy of the License at
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 //
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 //     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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 //
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 // Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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 // distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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 // WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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 // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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 // limitations under the License.
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 package org.apache.tapestry.coerce;
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 /**
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  * Converts a value (possibly null) to an alternate data type; typically from String to boolean or a
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  * number type.
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  * <p>
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  * Typically, a ValueConverter will select a particular
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  * {@link org.apache.tapestry.coerce.TypeConverter}to perform the conversion. The
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  * {@link org.apache.tapestry.coerce.ValueConverterImpl}implementation also makes use of built-in
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  * {@link java.beans.PropertyEditor}s.
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  * 
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  * @author Howard M. Lewis Ship
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  * @since 4.0
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  */
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 public interface ValueConverter
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 {
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     /**
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      * Performs a conversion of a value to a particular type.
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      * 
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      * @param value
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      *            The value to be converted (may be null)
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      * @param desiredType
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      *            the type that will be converted to
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      * @returns the value converted to the indicated type. May return the input value if it is
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      *          already assignable to the desiredType.
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      * @throws org.apache.hivemind.ApplicationRuntimeException
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      *             if the value can not be converted
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      */
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     public Object coerceValue(Object value, Class desiredType);
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 }