public final class StringConverter extends AbstractConverter
Converterimplementation that converts an incoming object into a
Note that ConvertUtils really is designed to do string->object conversions, and offers very little support for object->string conversions. The ConvertUtils/ConvertUtilsBean methods only select a converter to apply based upon the target type being converted to, and generally assume that the input is a string (by calling its toString method if needed).
This class is therefore just a dummy converter that converts its input into a string by calling the input object's toString method and returning that value.
It is possible to replace this converter with something that has a big if/else statement that selects behaviour based on the real type of the object being converted (or possibly has a map of converters, and looks them up based on the class of the input object). However this is not part of the existing ConvertUtils framework.
|Constructor and Description|
Construct a java.lang.String Converter that throws a
Construct a java.lang.String Converter that returns a default value if an error occurs.
|Modifier and Type||Method and Description|
Convert the specified input object into an output object of the specified type.
Return the default type this
conversionException, convert, convertArray, convertToString, getDefault, handleError, handleMissing, isUseDefault, setDefaultValue, toString
ConversionExceptionif an error occurs.
protected Class<?> getDefaultType()
protected <T> T convertToType(Class<T> type, Object value) throws Throwable
T- Target type of the conversion.
type- Data type to which this value should be converted.
value- The input value to be converted.
Throwable- if an error occurs converting to the specified type
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