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Added file for databinding
author Frank Benoit <benoit@tionex.de>
date Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:35:29 +0200
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1 /*******************************************************************************
2 * Copyright (c) 2005, 2008 IBM Corporation and others.
3 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
4 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
5 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
6 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
7 *
8 * Contributors:
9 * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
10 *******************************************************************************/
11 module org.eclipse.core.databinding.conversion.IConverter;
12
13 import java.lang.all;
14
15 /**
16 * A one-way converter.
17 *
18 * @noextend This interface is not intended to be extended by clients.
19 * @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
20 * Clients should subclass {@link Converter}.
21 *
22 * @since 1.0
23 *
24 */
25 public interface IConverter {
26
27 /**
28 * Returns the type whose instances can be converted by this converter. The
29 * return type is Object rather than Class to optionally support richer type
30 * systems than the one provided by Java reflection.
31 *
32 * @return the type whose instances can be converted, or null if this
33 * converter is untyped
34 */
35 public Object getFromType();
36
37 /**
38 * Returns the type to which this converter can convert. The return type is
39 * Object rather than Class to optionally support richer type systems than
40 * the one provided by Java reflection.
41 *
42 * @return the type to which this converter can convert, or null if this
43 * converter is untyped
44 */
45 public Object getToType();
46
47 /**
48 * Returns the result of the conversion of the given object.
49 *
50 * @param fromObject
51 * the object to convert, of type {@link #getFromType()}
52 * @return the converted object, of type {@link #getToType()}
53 */
54 public Object convert(Object fromObject);
55 }