org.jgroups.conf

Interface PropertyConverter

All Known Implementing Classes:

PropertyConverters.BindInterface, PropertyConverters.Default, PropertyConverters.FlushInvoker, PropertyConverters.InitialHosts, PropertyConverters.InitialHosts2, PropertyConverters.IntegerArray, PropertyConverters.LongArray, PropertyConverters.NetworkInterfaceList

public interface PropertyConverter

Represents a property converter that takes an input from corresponding field in JGroups properties file as a String and converts it to a matching Java type.

Author:

Vladimir Blagojevic

See Also:

PropertyConverters, Property

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Object	convert(Object obj, Class<?> propertyFieldType, String propertyName, String propertyValue, boolean check_scope)
String	toString(Object value) Converts the value to a string.

Method Detail

convert

Object convert(Object obj,
             Class<?> propertyFieldType,
             String propertyName,
             String propertyValue,
             boolean check_scope)
               throws Exception

Throws:

Exception

toString

String toString(Object value)

Converts the value to a string. The default is to simply invoke Object.toString(), however, some objects need to be printed specially, e.g. a long array etc.

Parameters:

value -

Returns: