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/* This file is part of Cyclos (www.cyclos.org). A project of the Social Trade Organisation (www.socialtrade.org). Cyclos is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Cyclos is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Cyclos; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA */ package nl.strohalm.cyclos.utils.conversion; import java.util.Locale; import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils; /** * Converter for Locale instances * @author luis */ public class LocaleConverter implements Converter<Locale> { private static final long serialVersionUID = -6076434697689630259L; private static final LocaleConverter INSTANCE = new LocaleConverter(); public static LocaleConverter instance() { return INSTANCE; } public String toString(final Locale locale) { if (locale == null) { return null; } final String variant = locale.getVariant(); if (StringUtils.isEmpty(variant)) { return locale.getLanguage() + "_" + locale.getCountry(); } else { return locale.getLanguage() + "_" + locale.getCountry() + "_" + locale.getVariant(); } } public Locale valueOf(final String string) { if (StringUtils.isEmpty(string)) { return null; } final String[] parts = StringUtils.split(string, "_"); if (parts.length == 1) { return new Locale(parts[0]); } else if (parts.length == 2) { return new Locale(parts[0], parts[1]); } else { return new Locale(parts[0], parts[1], parts[2]); } } }