/**

  * Copyright 2005-2011 The Kuali Foundation

  *

  * Licensed under the Educational Community 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.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php

  *

  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

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  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

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  */

 package org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.parse;

 import org.kuali.rice.krad.util.KRADUtils;

 import org.springframework.core.convert.TypeDescriptor;

 import org.springframework.core.convert.converter.GenericConverter;

 import java.util.HashSet;

 import java.util.Map;

 import java.util.Set;

 /**

  * Converts a string configured in the dictionary for a map property type to a Map

  * object using the convention of commas to separate map entries and a colon to separate

  * the key value pair

  *

  * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)

  */

 public class StringMapConverter implements GenericConverter {

     @Override

     public Set<ConvertiblePair> getConvertibleTypes() {

         Set<ConvertiblePair> pairs = new HashSet<ConvertiblePair>();

         ConvertiblePair stringMapPair = new ConvertiblePair(String.class, Map.class);

         pairs.add(stringMapPair);

         return pairs;

     }

     @Override

     public Object convert(Object source, TypeDescriptor sourceType, TypeDescriptor targetType) {

         return KRADUtils.convertStringParameterToMap((String) source);

     }

 }