/*******************************************************************************
* 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.IConstants;
import org.eclipse.papyrus.xwt.XWT;
import org.eclipse.papyrus.xwt.metadata.IMetaclass;
/**
* String to Type converter
*
* @author yyang
*/
public class StringToType implements IConverter {
public static StringToType instance = new StringToType();
public Object convert(Object fromObject) {
String str = (String)fromObject;
String typeName = str;
String namespace = IConstants.XWT_NAMESPACE;
int index = str.lastIndexOf(':');
if(index != -1) {
typeName = str.substring(index + 1);
namespace = str.substring(0, index);
}
IMetaclass metaclass = XWT.getMetaclass(typeName, namespace);
if(metaclass != null) {
return metaclass.getType();
}
return null;
}
public Object getFromType() {
return String.class;
}
public Object getToType() {
return Class.class;
}
}