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'rapiddweller Common' is an open source Java library
forked from Databene Commons by Volker Bergmann.
It provides extensions to the Java core library by utility classes, abstract concepts
and concrete implementations.
/*
* Copyright (C) 2004-2015 Volker Bergmann ([email protected]).
* All rights reserved.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
*/
package com.rapiddweller.common;
/**
* Base interface for all classes that convert
* a source object of type S to an object of type T.
* Created: 30.08.2006 19:41:08
*
* @param the object type to convert from
* @param the object type to convert to
* @author Volker Bergmann
* @since 0.1
*/
public interface Converter extends ThreadAware {
/**
* Gets source type.
*
* @return the source type
*/
Class getSourceType();
/**
* Gets target type.
*
* @return the target type
*/
Class getTargetType();
/**
* Concerts an object of type S to an object of type T
*
* @param sourceValue the object to convert
* @return the converted object
* @throws ConversionException the conversion exception
*/
T convert(S sourceValue) throws ConversionException;
}