/*
* Copyright (C) 2005, 2015 db4objects Inc. http://www.db4o.com
*
* 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:
* db4objects - Initial API and implementation
*/
package org.eclipse.core.internal.databinding.conversion;
import org.eclipse.core.databinding.conversion.IConverter;
/**
* Converts any object to a string by calling its toString() method.
*/
public class ObjectToStringConverter implements IConverter {
private final Class fromClass;
/**
*
*/
public ObjectToStringConverter() {
this(Object.class);
}
/**
* @param fromClass
*/
public ObjectToStringConverter(Class fromClass) {
this.fromClass = fromClass;
}
@Override
public Object convert(Object source) {
if (source == null) {
return ""; //$NON-NLS-1$
}
return source.toString();
}
@Override
public Object getFromType() {
return fromClass;
}
@Override
public Object getToType() {
return String.class;
}
}