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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.

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/*
 * 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.converter;

import com.rapiddweller.common.ConversionException;

/**
 * Converts {@link String}s of length 1 to {@link Character}s, Strings of length 0 to null.
 * Created: 27.02.2010 10:16:03
 *
 * @author Volker Bergmann
 * @since 0.5.0
 */
public class String2CharConverter extends ThreadSafeConverter {

  /**
   * Instantiates a new String 2 char converter.
   */
  public String2CharConverter() {
    super(String.class, Character.class);
  }

  @Override
  public Character convert(String sourceValue) throws ConversionException {
    if (sourceValue == null) {
      return null;
    }
    switch (sourceValue.length()) {
      case 0:
        return null;
      case 1:
        return sourceValue.charAt(0);
      default:
        throw new ConversionException("'" + sourceValue + "' cannot be converted to a character");
    }
  }

}