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/*
 * Copyright 2000,2005 wingS development team.
 *
 * This file is part of wingS (http://wingsframework.org).
 *
 * wingS is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1
 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * Please see COPYING for the complete licence.
 */
package org.wings.template;

/**
 * A PropertyValueConverter is able to convert a property value (a string) to an Java object.
 *
 * @author Armin Haaf
 */
public interface PropertyValueConverter {

    /**
     * Describe toObject method here.
     *
     * @param value       a String value
     * @param targetClass a Class value
     * @return an Object value
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if an error occurs
     */
    public Object convertPropertyValue(String value, Class targetClass)
            throws IllegalArgumentException;

}// PropertyValueConverter