com.hazelcast.core

Interface TypeConverter

All Known Implementing Classes:

PropertyTypeConverter, TypeConverters.BaseTypeConverter

public interface TypeConverter

Implementations of this interface define a certain type conversation. Conversation can happen from any kind of Comparable type to another.

Implementations of TypeConverter need to be fully thread-safe and must have no internal state as they are expected to be used by multiple threads and with shared instances.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Comparable	convert(Comparable value) Compares a Comparable typed value to another one.

Method Detail

convert

Comparable convert(Comparable value)

Compares a Comparable typed value to another one. Since TypeConverters are not statically typed itself the developer needs to take care of correct usage of input and output types.

Parameters:

value - the value to be converted

Returns:

the converted value