001/* 002 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 003 * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with 004 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. 005 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 006 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with 007 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 008 * 009 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 010 * 011 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 012 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 013 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 014 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 015 * limitations under the License. 016 */ 017 018package org.apache.commons.jxpath.util; 019 020/** 021 * A type converter can be installed on {@link TypeUtils} to introduce additional type conversions for JXPath. Most of the time {@link BasicTypeConverter} 022 * should be used as the superclass. 023 * 024 * @see TypeUtils#setTypeConverter 025 */ 026public interface TypeConverter { 027 028 /** 029 * Returns true if it can convert the supplied object to the specified class. 030 * 031 * @param object object to test 032 * @param toType target class 033 * @return boolean 034 */ 035 boolean canConvert(Object object, Class toType); 036 037 /** 038 * Converts the supplied object to the specified type. Throws a runtime exception if the conversion is not possible. 039 * 040 * @param object object to convert 041 * @param toType target class 042 * @return resulting Object 043 */ 044 Object convert(Object object, Class toType); 045}