Package org.eclipse.persistence.core.mappings.converters

Interface CoreConverter<MAPPING extends CoreMapping,SESSION extends CoreSession>

All Known Subinterfaces:

Converter, XMLConverter

All Known Implementing Classes:

ClassInstanceConverter, ConverterClass, EnumTypeConverter, InstanceClassConverter, JAXBEnumTypeConverter, JAXBTypesafeEnumConverter, ObjectTypeConverter, SerializedObjectConverter, TypeConversionConverter, TypeStringConverter, XMLConverterAdapter, XMLListConverter, XMLRootConverter

public interface CoreConverter<MAPPING extends CoreMapping,SESSION extends CoreSession>

INTERNAL A abstraction of converter capturing behavior common to all persistence types.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Object	convertDataValueToObjectValue(Object dataValue, SESSION session)	PUBLIC: Convert the databases' data representation of the value to the object's representation.
Object	convertObjectValueToDataValue(Object objectValue, SESSION session)	PUBLIC: Convert the object's representation of the value to the databases' data representation.
void	initialize(MAPPING mapping, SESSION session)	PUBLIC: Allow for any initialization.

Method Details

convertObjectValueToDataValue

Object convertObjectValueToDataValue(Object objectValue,
 SESSION session)

PUBLIC: Convert the object's representation of the value to the databases' data representation. For example this could convert between a Calendar Java type and the sql.Time datatype.

convertDataValueToObjectValue

Object convertDataValueToObjectValue(Object dataValue,
 SESSION session)

PUBLIC: Convert the databases' data representation of the value to the object's representation. For example this could convert between an sql.Time datatype and the Java Calendar type.

initialize

void initialize(MAPPING mapping,
 SESSION session)

PUBLIC: Allow for any initialization.