- /*
- * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
- package org.apache.commons.beanutils.locale;
-
- import org.apache.commons.beanutils.Converter;
-
-
- /**
- * <p>General purpose locale-sensitive data type converter that can be registered and used
- * within the BeanUtils package to manage the conversion of objects from
- * one type to another.
- *
- * @author Yauheny Mikulski
- */
-
- public interface LocaleConverter extends Converter {
-
-
- /**
- * Convert the specified locale-sensitive input object into an output object of the
- * specified type.
- *
- * @param type Data type to which this value should be converted
- * @param value The input value to be converted
- * @param pattern The user-defined pattern is used for the input object formatting.
- *
- * @exception ConversionException if conversion cannot be performed
- * successfully
- */
- public Object convert(Class type, Object value, String pattern);
- }