org.geotools.data.util

Class TemporalConverterFactory

Object

TemporalConverterFactory

All Implemented Interfaces:

ConverterFactory

public class TemporalConverterFactory
extends Object
implements ConverterFactory

Converter factory which created converting between the various temporal types.

Supported save conversions:

• Date to Calendar
• Time to Calendar
• Date to Timestamp
• Date to Date
• Calendar to Date
• Calendar to Timestamp
• XMLGregorianCalendar to Calendar
• Calendar to XMLGregorianCalendar
• XMLGregorianCalendar to Date
• Date to XMLGregorianCalendar
• String to TimeZone

Supported unsafe (lossy) conversions:

• Date to Time
• Calendar to Time
• Timestamp to Calendar

The hint ConverterFactory.SAFE_CONVERSION is used to control which conversions will be applied.

The hint #DATE_FORMAT can be used to control the format of converting a temporal value to a String.

Since:

2.4

Author:

Justin Deoliveira, The Open Planning Project

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface ConverterFactory

SAFE_CONVERSION

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
TemporalConverterFactory()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Converter	createConverter(Class source, Class target, Hints hints) Creates a Converter instance for converting one type of object to another.

Methods inherited from class Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

TemporalConverterFactory

public TemporalConverterFactory()

Method Detail

createConverter

public Converter createConverter(Class source,
                                 Class target,
                                 Hints hints)

Description copied from interface: ConverterFactory

Creates a Converter instance for converting one type of object to another.

Specified by:

createConverter in interface ConverterFactory

Parameters:

source - The type to convert from.

target - The type to convert to.

hints - Hints used to be used while creating a converter.

Returns:

The converter, or null if one could not be found.