/* (c) 2014 Open Source Geospatial Foundation - all rights reserved
* (c) 2001 - 2013 OpenPlans
* This code is licensed under the GPL 2.0 license, available at the root
* application directory.
*/
package org.geoserver.wps.ppio;
import org.geotools.util.Converters;
/**
* Process parameter input / output for literals in string form.
* <p>
* This class can handle arbitary literal data and does so by delegating to
* the geotools converter api, {@link Converters}. However this class may be
* subclassed as needed.
* </p>
*
* @author Lucas Reed, Refractions Research Inc
* @author Justin Deoliveira, OpenGEO
*
*/
public class LiteralPPIO extends ProcessParameterIO {
public LiteralPPIO(Class type) {
super(type,type);
}
/**
* Decodes the parameter (as a string) to its internal object implementation.
*/
public Object decode( String value ) throws Exception {
return Converters.convert(value, getType());
}
/**
* Encodes the internal object representation of a parameter as a string.
*/
public String encode( Object value ) throws Exception {
return Converters.convert( value, String.class);
}
}