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 * 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                    *
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 *                                                                             *  
 * Contributors:                                                               *        
 *     Soyatec - initial API and implementation                                *
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.papyrus.xwt.converters;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;

import org.eclipse.core.databinding.conversion.IConverter;

/**
 * @author jliu (jin.liu@soyatec.com)
 */
public class StringToURL implements IConverter {

	public static StringToURL instance = new StringToURL();

	/*
	 * (non-Javadoc)
	 * 
	 * @see org.eclipse.core.databinding.conversion.IConverter#convert(java.lang.Object)
	 */
	public Object convert(Object fromObject) {
		try {
			return new URL(fromObject.toString());
		} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
			return null;
		}
	}

	/*
	 * (non-Javadoc)
	 * 
	 * @see org.eclipse.core.databinding.conversion.IConverter#getFromType()
	 */
	public Object getFromType() {
		return String.class;
	}

	/*
	 * (non-Javadoc)
	 * 
	 * @see org.eclipse.core.databinding.conversion.IConverter#getToType()
	 */
	public Object getToType() {
		return URL.class;
	}

}