[#XSTR-325] Conventional Converter

XStream

Created: 21/Jun/06 11:48 PM Updated: 07/Jul/06 04:25 AM

Component/s:

None

Affects Version/s:

None

Fix Version/s:

1.2

File Attachments:

ConventionalStringConverter.java (2 kB)
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ConventionalStringConverterTest.java (2 kB)

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ConventionalStringConverter is a converter that assumes two things about the class that is passed into its ctor ..

1) There is a single string parameter for the constructor of the class that its helping
2) toString() does something meaningful on the same class.

Like so ...

public class Foo {
private foo;
public Foo(String foo) { this.foo = foo; }
public String toString() { return foo; }
}

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How about renaming it StringConstructableConverter?

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Or better yet SingleStringConstructableConverter?

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ToStringConverter ?

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This is why I reply on brighter collaborators to name/rename things ... after committing

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Of course, String itself matches the ToString ideal.

Thus ...

xStream.useAttributeFor( ... , String.class);
xStream.registerConverter(new ConventionalStringConverter(String.class));

could be replaced with ...

xStream.useAttributeFor( ... , String.class);

as long as 'useAttributeFor' performs a silent ...

xStream.registerConverter(new ConventionalStringConverter(String.class));

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Applied, using ToStringConverter as name.