/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2006, 2010 Soyatec (http://www.soyatec.com) 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:
* Soyatec - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.papyrus.xwt.converters;
import org.eclipse.core.databinding.conversion.IConverter;
import org.eclipse.papyrus.xwt.XWTException;
/**
* String to Boolean converter
*
* @author yyang
*/
public class StringToBoolean implements IConverter {
public static StringToBoolean instance = new StringToBoolean();
public Object convert(Object fromObject) {
String str = (String)fromObject;
if(str == null || "".equalsIgnoreCase(str)) {
return false;
} else if("true".equalsIgnoreCase(str)) {
return true;
} else if("false".equalsIgnoreCase(str)) {
return false;
}
throw new XWTException(str + " is not a boolean");
}
public Object getFromType() {
return String.class;
}
public Object getToType() {
return Boolean.class;
}
}