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* Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.search.bridge.builtin;
import org.hibernate.annotations.common.util.StringHelper;
import org.hibernate.search.SearchException;
import org.hibernate.search.bridge.TwoWayStringBridge;
import org.hibernate.search.util.impl.ClassLoaderHelper;
/**
* Convert a Class back and forth
*
* @author Emmanuel Bernard
*/
public class ClassBridge implements TwoWayStringBridge {
public Object stringToObject(String stringValue) {
if ( StringHelper.isEmpty( stringValue ) ) {
return null;
}
else {
try {
return ClassLoaderHelper.classForName( stringValue, ClassBridge.class.getClassLoader() );
}
catch ( ClassNotFoundException e ) {
throw new SearchException( "Unable to deserialize Class: " + stringValue, e );
}
}
}
public String objectToString(Object object) {
return object == null ? null : ( (Class) object ).getName();
}
}