org.openl.rules.table.formatters

Class ArrayFormatter

java.lang.Object

org.openl.rules.table.formatters.ArrayFormatter

All Implemented Interfaces:

IFormatter

public class ArrayFormatter
extends Object
implements IFormatter

A formatter for converting an array of elements, represented by String (elements are separated by ARRAY_ELEMENTS_SEPARATOR escaper for the separator is ARRAY_ELEMENTS_SEPARATOR_ESCAPER) to an array of specified type (method parse(String)).
Also it provides the back convertion from specified type to a String, in outcome result elements will separated by ARRAY_ELEMENTS_SEPARATOR (method format(Object)).

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ArrayFormatter(IFormatter elementFormat)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	format(Object value) Converts an input array of elements to String.
IFormatter	getElementFormat()
Object	parse(String value)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ArrayFormatter

public ArrayFormatter(IFormatter elementFormat)

Parameters:

elementFormat - formatter for the component type of array.

Method Detail

format

public String format(Object value)

Converts an input array of elements to String. Elements in the return value will separated by ARRAY_ELEMENTS_SEPARATOR. Null safety.

Specified by:

format in interface IFormatter

Parameters:

value - array of elements that should be represented as String.

Returns:

String representation of the income array. NULL if the income value is NULL or if income value is not an array.

parse

public Object parse(String value)

Specified by:

parse in interface IFormatter

Parameters:

value - String representation of the array.

Returns:

array of elements. NULL if input is empty or can`t get the component type of the array.

getElementFormat

public IFormatter getElementFormat()