Java tutorial
package com.terradue.jcatalogue.client.internal.converters; /* * Copyright 2011-2012 Terradue srl * * 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. */ import static java.lang.String.format; import java.util.Locale; import java.util.StringTokenizer; import org.apache.commons.beanutils.ConversionException; import org.apache.commons.beanutils.Converter; public final class LocaleConverter implements Converter { private static final String SEPARATOR = "-"; public Object convert(@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") Class type, Object value) { if (value == null) { throw new ConversionException("Null values not supported in this version."); } if (String.class == type) { if (value instanceof Locale) { Locale locale = (Locale) value; return locale.getLanguage() + SEPARATOR + locale.getCountry(); } } else if (Locale.class == type) { if (value instanceof String) { StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer((String) value, SEPARATOR); return new Locale(tokenizer.nextToken(), tokenizer.nextToken()); } } throw new ConversionException(format("type %s and value %s not supported", type, value)); } }