Converter.java

/**
 * Copyright (c) 2010-2016 by the respective copyright holders.
 *
 * 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
 */
package org.openhab.binding.weather.internal.converter;

/**
 * Converter interface for converting between JSON properties and the weather
 * model properties.
 *
 * @author Gerhard Riegler
 * @since 1.6.0
 */
public interface Converter<T> {

    /**
     * Converts a string value to a target value.
     */
    public T convert(String value) throws Exception;

    /**
     * Returns the ConverterType.
     */
    public ConverterType getType();

}