io.virtdata.util

Class StringObjectPromoter

java.lang.Object

io.virtdata.util.StringObjectPromoter

public class StringObjectPromoter
extends Object

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
StringObjectPromoter()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static boolean	isAssignableForConstructor(Class<?> have, Class<?> need) If a boxed type would suffice for a constructor call, even though Class.isAssignableFrom(Class) says the assignment wouldn't work, return true;
static Object	promote(String stringArg) Specialize the form of a string argument around the apparent object type.
static Object	promote(String raw, Class<?> targetType) Specialize the type of an object according to a target class.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

StringObjectPromoter

public StringObjectPromoter()

Method Detail

promote

public static Object promote(String raw,
                             Class<?> targetType)

Specialize the type of an object according to a target class.

Parameters:

raw - The string representation of an object.

targetType - The target object type

Returns:

The promoted form, in the target class, or the original value if the format failed or the class type was not supported.

promote

public static Object promote(String stringArg)

Specialize the form of a string argument around the apparent object type.

Parameters:

stringArg - The raw value in string form

Returns:

the specialized object type, or the original string format if nothing was found to be

isAssignableForConstructor

public static boolean isAssignableForConstructor(Class<?> have,
                                                 Class<?> need)

If a boxed type would suffice for a constructor call, even though Class.isAssignableFrom(Class) says the assignment wouldn't work, return true;

Parameters:

have - The class that we have.

need - The class that we need.

Returns:

true, if the class that we have would work for a constructor call, due to unboxing.