/*
 * Copyright cast(C) 2005 db4objects Inc.  http://www.db4o.com
 * 
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     db4objects - Initial API and implementation
 */
module org.eclipse.core.internal.databinding.conversion.DateToStringConverter;
import org.eclipse.core.internal.databinding.conversion.DateConversionSupport;

import java.lang.all;

import java.util.Date;

import org.eclipse.core.databinding.conversion.IConverter;


/**
 * Converts a Java.util.Date to a String using the current locale.  Null date
 * values are converted to an empty string.
 * 
 * @since 1.0
 */
public class DateToStringConverter : DateConversionSupport , IConverter {    
    public Object convert(Object source) {
        if (source !is null)
            return format(cast(Date)source);
        return ""; //$NON-NLS-1$
    }

    public Object getFromType() {
        return Date.classinfo;
    }

    public Object getToType() {
        return String.classinfo;
    }   
}