I would have a look at the Joda typeconvertors. They concentrate on Object->String and String->Object. Add Object-Object later if anyone really needs it.
They also have a mechanism for dealing with superclass/subclass relationships. You can register a TypeConvertorFactory that creates TypeConvertors for subclasses of a specified type. This is necessary for enumerated types, where they all fulfil the same interface and you don't want a specific convertor coded for each enum. So, the registry starts with a combination of a map of known convertors for specific classes (no inheritance lookup), and a map of factories by supertype (with inheritance lookup). The first time a factory is invoked, the resulting convertor is placed into the first map, thus speeding up subsequent lookups. Stephen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henri Yandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 4:36 AM Subject: Re: [convert] initial code commit > > To save people effort, the design doc is: > > http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-commons-sandbox/convert/xdocs/convert. png?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup > > Hen > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
