/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2008 Ralf Ebert
* 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:
* Ralf Ebert - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package de.ralfebert.rcputils.properties;
/**
* An IValueFormatter describes a conversion for a value in both directions.
* Formatters are used for display and editing, that's why both directions are
* there. If you implement a formatter that's only for display, let the parse
* method throw an {@link UnsupportedOperationException}.
*
* @author Ralf Ebert <info@ralfebert.de>
*/
public interface IValueFormatter<FROM, TO> {
public TO format(FROM obj);
public FROM parse(TO obj);
}