com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters
Interface SingleValueConverter

All Superinterfaces:

ConverterMatcher

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractSingleValueConverter, BigDecimalConverter, BigIntegerConverter, BooleanConverter, ByteConverter, CharsetConverter, CurrencyConverter, DateConverter, DoubleConverter, FileConverter, FloatConverter, IntConverter, ISO8601DateConverter, ISO8601GregorianCalendarConverter, ISO8601SqlTimestampConverter, JavaClassConverter, LocaleConverter, LongConverter, ShortConverter, SingleValueConverterWrapper, SqlDateConverter, SqlTimeConverter, SqlTimestampConverter, StackTraceElementConverter, StringBufferConverter, StringConverter, TextAttributeConverter, ToStringConverter, URLConverter

public interface SingleValueConverter
extends ConverterMatcher

SingleValueConverter implementations are marshallable to/from a single value String representation.

AbstractSingleValueConverter provides a starting point for objects that can store all information in a single value String.

Since:

1.2

Author:

Joe Walnes, Jörg Schaible, Mauro Talevi

See Also:

Converter, AbstractSingleValueConverter

Method Summary

java.lang.Object	fromString(java.lang.String str) Unmarshalls an Object from its single value representation.
java.lang.String	toString(java.lang.Object obj) Marshalls an Object into a single value representation.

Methods inherited from interface com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.ConverterMatcher

canConvert

Method Detail

toString

java.lang.String toString(java.lang.Object obj)

Marshalls an Object into a single value representation.

Parameters:

obj - the Object to be converted

Returns:

a String with the single value of the Object or null

fromString

java.lang.Object fromString(java.lang.String str)

Unmarshalls an Object from its single value representation.

Parameters:

str - the String with the single value of the Object

Returns:

the Object