/*

  * Copyright 2006-2008 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,

  * 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.kuali.rice.core.web.format;

 import java.util.Collection;

 /**

  * This class is used to prevent reformatting of String values.

  */

 public class NoOpStringFormatter extends Formatter {

     private static final long serialVersionUID = 7724214487192363066L;

         /**

      * Does absolutely nothing to the given String. Yes, this is actually a valuable way to prevent the POJO stuff from converting a

      * simple String into a 1-element String array.

      */

     protected Object convertToObject(String target) {

         return target;

     }

     /**

      * Does absolutely nothing to the given String. Yes, this is actually a valuable way to prevent the POJO stuff from converting a

      * simple String into a 1-element String array.

      */

     public Object format(Object value) {

         if (value != null) {

             if (!(value instanceof String)) {

                 throw new FormatException("the given " + value.getClass().getName() + " value is not a String");

             }

         }

         return value;

     }

     public Object convertFromPresentationFormat(Object value) {

         return super.convertFromPresentationFormat(value);

     }

     public Object formatArray(Object value) {

         return super.formatArray(value);

     }

     public Object formatCollection(Collection value) {

         return super.formatCollection(value);

     }

     public Object formatForPresentation(Object value) {

         return super.formatForPresentation(value);

     }

     public Object formatObject(Object value) {

         return super.formatObject(value);

     }

 }