/*
* This is eMonocot, a global online biodiversity information resource.
*
* Copyright © 2011–2015 The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and The University of Oxford
*
* eMonocot is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
* GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3
* of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* eMonocot is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
* the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
*
* The complete text of the GNU Affero General Public License is in the source repository as the file
* ‘COPYING’. It is also available from <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
package org.emonocot.model.convert;
import org.emonocot.model.constants.Location;
import org.springframework.core.convert.converter.Converter;
/**
*
* @author ben
*
*/
public class StringToLocationConverter implements
Converter<String, Location> {
private static final String DWC_VOCABULARY_PREFIX = "TDWG:";
/**
* @param identifier set the identifier
* @return a geographical region
*/
public final Location convert(final String identifier) {
if (identifier == null || identifier.isEmpty()) {
return null;
}
if(identifier.startsWith(StringToLocationConverter.DWC_VOCABULARY_PREFIX)) {
String code = identifier.substring(StringToLocationConverter.DWC_VOCABULARY_PREFIX.length());
return Location.fromString(code);
} else {
return Location.fromString(identifier);
}
}
}