1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2012 The Kuali Foundation
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14 * limitations under the License.
15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.parse;
17
18 import org.kuali.rice.krad.util.KRADUtils;
19 import org.springframework.core.convert.TypeDescriptor;
20 import org.springframework.core.convert.converter.GenericConverter;
21
22 import java.util.HashSet;
23 import java.util.Map;
24 import java.util.Set;
25
26 /**
27 * Converts a string configured in the dictionary for a map property type to a Map
28 * object using the convention of commas to separate map entries and a colon to separate
29 * the key value pair
30 *
31 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
32 */
33 public class StringMapConverter implements GenericConverter {
34
35 @Override
36 public Set<ConvertiblePair> getConvertibleTypes() {
37 Set<ConvertiblePair> pairs = new HashSet<ConvertiblePair>();
38
39 ConvertiblePair stringMapPair = new ConvertiblePair(String.class, Map.class);
40 pairs.add(stringMapPair);
41
42 return pairs;
43 }
44
45 @Override
46 public Object convert(Object source, TypeDescriptor sourceType, TypeDescriptor targetType) {
47 return KRADUtils.convertStringParameterToMap((String) source);
48 }
49 }