/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2012 Willink Transformations and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* E.D.Willink - Initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.ocl.common.internal.preferences;
/**
* A configurable preference with a Class value.
*/
public class ClassPreference<T> extends Preference<Class<? extends T>>
{
public final Class<?> type;
public ClassPreference(String pluginId, String key, Class<? extends T> defaultValue, Class<? extends T> type) {
super(pluginId, key, defaultValue);
this.type = type;
}
public Class<? extends T> getValueOf(String string) {
if (string == null) {
return null;
}
try {
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
Class<? extends T> loadClass = (Class<? extends T>) type.getClassLoader().loadClass(string);
return loadClass;
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
// e.printStackTrace();
return getDefaultValue();
}
}
}