net.sf.morph.transform.converters
Class ConstantConverter

java.lang.Object
  net.sf.morph.transform.transformers.BaseTransformer
      net.sf.morph.transform.converters.ConstantConverter

All Implemented Interfaces:

net.sf.composite.Component, Converter, DecoratedConverter, DecoratedTransformer, ExplicitTransformer, Transformer

public class ConstantConverter
extends BaseTransformer
implements DecoratedConverter

Converter that always returns a certain destination object.

Since:

Morph 1.1

Author:

mbenson

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class net.sf.morph.transform.transformers.BaseTransformer

destinationClasses, log, sourceClasses

Fields inherited from interface net.sf.morph.transform.Transformer

TRANSFORMATION_TYPE_CONVERT, TRANSFORMATION_TYPE_COPY

Fields inherited from interface net.sf.morph.transform.Transformer

TRANSFORMATION_TYPE_CONVERT, TRANSFORMATION_TYPE_COPY

Constructor Summary

ConstantConverter()
Create a new ConstantConverter.

ConstantConverter(java.lang.Object result)
Create a new ConstantConverter.

Method Summary

protected java.lang.Object	convertImpl(java.lang.Class destinationClass, java.lang.Object source, java.util.Locale locale) The implementation of the convert method, which may omit the invalid argument checks already performed by this base class.
protected java.lang.Class[]	getDestinationClassesImpl() Transformer.getDestinationClasses() implementation template method.
java.lang.Object	getResult() Get the result.
protected java.lang.Class[]	getSourceClassesImpl() Transformer.getSourceClasses() implementation template method.
protected boolean	isAutomaticallyHandlingNulls() Indicates whether null values will automatically be converted to null by this base class before even calling the subclass's BaseTransformer.convertImpl(Class, Object, Locale) method.
void	setResult(java.lang.Object result) Set the result.

Methods inherited from class net.sf.morph.transform.transformers.BaseTransformer

clone, convert, convert, copy, copy, copyImpl, createDefaultReflector, createNewInstance, createNewInstanceImpl, createReusableSource, equals, equals, equalsUnidirectionalTest, getDestinationClasses, getInstantiatingReflector, getLocale, getLog, getNestedTransformer, getReflector, getReflector, getSourceClasses, getTransformableCallCache, getTransformerName, initialize, initializeImpl, isCachingIsTransformableCalls, isImpreciseTransformation, isImpreciseTransformationImpl, isInitialized, isPerformingLogging, isTransformable, isTransformableImpl, isWrappingRuntimeExceptions, setCachingIsTransformableCalls, setDestinationClasses, setInitialized, setLog, setNestedTransformer, setReflector, setSourceClasses, setTransformableCallCache, setTransformerName, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.morph.transform.DecoratedConverter

convert, equals, equals

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.morph.transform.Converter

convert

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.morph.transform.Transformer

getDestinationClasses, getSourceClasses

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.morph.transform.Transformer

getDestinationClasses, getSourceClasses

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.morph.transform.ExplicitTransformer

isTransformable

Constructor Detail

ConstantConverter

public ConstantConverter()

Create a new ConstantConverter.

ConstantConverter

public ConstantConverter(java.lang.Object result)

Create a new ConstantConverter.

Parameters:

result - the Object result to set.

Method Detail

getDestinationClassesImpl

protected java.lang.Class[] getDestinationClassesImpl()
                                               throws java.lang.Exception

Transformer.getDestinationClasses() implementation template method.

Specified by:

getDestinationClassesImpl in class BaseTransformer

Returns:

Class[]

Throws:

java.lang.Exception

See Also:

BaseTransformer.getDestinationClassesImpl()

getSourceClassesImpl

protected java.lang.Class[] getSourceClassesImpl()
                                          throws java.lang.Exception

Transformer.getSourceClasses() implementation template method.

Specified by:

getSourceClassesImpl in class BaseTransformer

Returns:

Class[]

Throws:

java.lang.Exception

See Also:

BaseTransformer.getSourceClassesImpl()

convertImpl

protected java.lang.Object convertImpl(java.lang.Class destinationClass,
                                       java.lang.Object source,
                                       java.util.Locale locale)
                                throws java.lang.Exception

The implementation of the convert method, which may omit the invalid argument checks already performed by this base class. By default, this method creates a new instance of the destinationClass and copies information from the source to the destination. This implementation should be fine as-is for Copiers, but Converters will need to implement this method since they will not be implementing the copy method.

Overrides:

convertImpl in class BaseTransformer

locale - the locale in which the conversion should take place. for converters that are not locale-aware, the local argument can simply be ignored

Throws:

java.lang.Exception

See Also:

BaseTransformer.convertImpl(java.lang.Class, java.lang.Object, java.util.Locale)

isAutomaticallyHandlingNulls

protected boolean isAutomaticallyHandlingNulls()

Indicates whether null values will automatically be converted to null by this base class before even calling the subclass's BaseTransformer.convertImpl(Class, Object, Locale) method. Subclasses which depend on this behavior (which is all subclasses, by default) should include null as one of their source and destination classes so that the actual behavior of the transformer is consistent with the values that are returned by the BaseTransformer.isTransformable(Class, Class) method. The conversions will happen automatically even if the source and destination classes don't contain null, but for the sake of consistency the nulls should be included.

Overrides:

isAutomaticallyHandlingNulls in class BaseTransformer

Returns:

whether null values will automatically be converted to null by this base class before even calling the subclass's BaseTransformer.convertImpl(Class, Object, Locale) method

See Also:

BaseTransformer.isAutomaticallyHandlingNulls()

getResult

public java.lang.Object getResult()

Get the result.

Returns:

Object.

setResult

public void setResult(java.lang.Object result)

Set the result.

Parameters:

result - the Object result to set.