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/* * Copyright (C) 2008 Google Inc. * * Licensed under the Apache 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.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * 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 ca.oson.json.domain; import com.google.gson.JsonParseException; import com.google.gson.internal.Primitives; import java.lang.reflect.Constructor; import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException; import java.lang.reflect.Method; /** * Handles type conversion from some object to some primitive (or primitive * wrapper instance). * * @author Joel Leitch */ final class PrimitiveTypeAdapter { @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") public <T> T adaptType(Object from, Class<T> to) { Class<?> aClass = Primitives.wrap(to); if (Primitives.isWrapperType(aClass)) { if (aClass == Character.class) { String value = from.toString(); if (value.length() == 1) { return (T) (Character) from.toString().charAt(0); } throw new JsonParseException("The value: " + value + " contains more than a character."); } try { Constructor<?> constructor = aClass.getConstructor(String.class); return (T) constructor.newInstance(from.toString()); } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) { throw new JsonParseException(e); } catch (IllegalAccessException e) { throw new JsonParseException(e); } catch (InvocationTargetException e) { throw new JsonParseException(e); } catch (InstantiationException e) { throw new JsonParseException(e); } } else if (Enum.class.isAssignableFrom(to)) { // Case where the type being adapted to is an Enum // We will try to convert from.toString() to the enum try { Method valuesMethod = to.getMethod("valueOf", String.class); return (T) valuesMethod.invoke(null, from.toString()); } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) { throw new RuntimeException(e); } catch (IllegalAccessException e) { throw new RuntimeException(e); } catch (InvocationTargetException e) { throw new RuntimeException(e); } } else { throw new JsonParseException("Can not adapt type " + from.getClass() + " to " + to); } } }