org.apache.velocity.tools

Class ConversionUtils

java.lang.Object

org.apache.velocity.tools.ConversionUtils

public class ConversionUtils
extends Object

Utility methods for parsing or otherwise converting between types. Current supported types are Number, Date, Calendar, String, Boolean, Locale and URL

Author:

Nathan Bubna

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static ConversionUtils	INSTANCE

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static List	asList(Object value)
static DateFormat	getDateFormat(int dateStyle, int timeStyle, Locale locale, TimeZone timezone) Returns a DateFormat instance for the specified time style, date style, Locale, and TimeZone.
static DateFormat	getDateFormat(String format, Locale locale, TimeZone timezone) Returns a DateFormat instance for the specified format, Locale, and TimeZone.
static DateFormat	getDateFormat(String dateStyle, String timeStyle, Locale locale, TimeZone timezone) Returns a DateFormat instance for the specified date style, time style, Locale, and TimeZone.
static int	getDateStyleAsInt(String style) Checks a string to see if it matches one of the standard DateFormat style patterns: full, long, medium, short, or default.
ConversionUtils	getInstance()
static NumberFormat	getNumberFormat(int numberStyle, Locale locale) Returns a NumberFormat instance for the specified number style and Locale.
static NumberFormat	getNumberFormat(String format, Locale locale) Returns a NumberFormat instance for the specified format and Locale.
static int	getNumberStyleAsInt(String style) Checks a string to see if it matches one of the standard NumberFormat style patterns: number, currency, percent, integer, or default.
static Boolean	toBoolean(Object value) Converts any Object to a boolean using toString(Object) and Boolean.valueOf(String).
static Calendar	toCalendar(Date date, Locale locale)
static Date	toDate(Object obj) Attempts to convert an unidentified Object into a Date, just short of turning it into a string and parsing it.
static Date	toDate(Object obj, String format, Locale locale, TimeZone timezone) Converts an object to an instance of Date using the specified format, Locale, and TimeZone if the object is not already an instance of Date, Calendar, or Long.
static Date	toDate(String str, String format, Locale locale, TimeZone timezone) Converts an object to an instance of Date using the specified format, Locale, and TimeZone if the object is not already an instance of Date, Calendar, or Long.
static Locale	toLocale(String value) Converts a string to a Locale
static Number	toNumber(Object obj) Attempts to convert an unidentified Object into a Number, just short of turning it into a string and parsing it.
static Number	toNumber(Object obj, boolean handleStrings) Just like toNumber(Object) except that you can tell this to attempt parsing the object as a String by passing true as the second parameter.
static Number	toNumber(Object value, String format, Locale locale) Converts an object to an instance of Number using the specified format and Locale to parse it, if necessary.
static Number	toNumber(String value, String format, Locale locale) Converts a string to an instance of Number using the specified format and Locale to parse it.
static String	toString(Collection values) Returns the first value as a String, if any; otherwise returns null.
static String	toString(Object value) Converts objects to String in a more Tools-ish way than String.valueOf(Object), especially with nulls, Arrays and Collections.
static URL	toURL(String value) Converts a string to a URL.
static URL	toURL(String value, Object caller) Converts a string to a URL.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

INSTANCE

public static final ConversionUtils INSTANCE

Method Detail

getInstance

public ConversionUtils getInstance()

getNumberFormat

public static NumberFormat getNumberFormat(String format,
                                           Locale locale)

Returns a NumberFormat instance for the specified format and Locale. If the format specified is a standard style pattern, then a number instance will be returned with the number style set to the specified style. If it is a custom format, then a customized NumberFormat will be returned.

Parameters:

format - the custom or standard formatting pattern to be used

locale - the Locale to be used

Returns:

an instance of NumberFormat

See Also:

NumberFormat

getNumberFormat

public static NumberFormat getNumberFormat(int numberStyle,
                                           Locale locale)

Returns a NumberFormat instance for the specified number style and Locale.

Parameters:

numberStyle - the number style (number will be ignored if this is less than zero or the number style is not recognized)

locale - the Locale to be used

Returns:

an instance of NumberFormat or null if an instance cannot be constructed with the given parameters

getNumberStyleAsInt

public static int getNumberStyleAsInt(String style)

Checks a string to see if it matches one of the standard NumberFormat style patterns: number, currency, percent, integer, or default. if it does it will return the integer constant for that pattern. if not, it will return -1.

Parameters:

style - the string to be checked

Returns:

the int identifying the style pattern

See Also:

NumberFormat

toNumber

public static Number toNumber(Object obj)

Attempts to convert an unidentified Object into a Number, just short of turning it into a string and parsing it. In other words, this will convert to Number from a Number, Calendar, or Date. If it can't do that, it will get the string value and have toNumber(String,String,Locale) try to parse it using the default Locale and format.

Parameters:

obj - - the object to convert

Returns:

the converted Number or null if the conversion failed

toNumber

public static Number toNumber(Object obj,
                              boolean handleStrings)

Just like toNumber(Object) except that you can tell this to attempt parsing the object as a String by passing true as the second parameter. If you do so, then it will have toNumber(String,String,Locale) try to parse it using the default Locale and format.

Parameters:

obj - the target object

handleStrings - whether to try to convert from a string

Returns:

the converted Number or null if the conversion failed

toNumber

public static Number toNumber(String value,
                              String format,
                              Locale locale)

Converts a string to an instance of Number using the specified format and Locale to parse it.

Parameters:

value - - the string to convert

format - - the format the number is in

locale - - the Locale

Returns:

the string as a Number or null if no conversion is possible

See Also:

NumberFormat.parse(java.lang.String, java.text.ParsePosition)

toNumber

public static Number toNumber(Object value,
                              String format,
                              Locale locale)

Converts an object to an instance of Number using the specified format and Locale to parse it, if necessary.

Parameters:

value - - the object to convert

format - - the format the number is in

locale - - the Locale

Returns:

the object as a Number or null if no conversion is possible

See Also:

NumberFormat.parse(java.lang.String, java.text.ParsePosition)

getDateFormat

public static DateFormat getDateFormat(String format,
                                       Locale locale,
                                       TimeZone timezone)

Returns a DateFormat instance for the specified format, Locale, and TimeZone. If the format specified is a standard style pattern, then a date-time instance will be returned with both the date and time styles set to the specified style. If it is a custom format, then a customized SimpleDateFormat will be returned.

Parameters:

format - the custom or standard formatting pattern to be used

locale - the Locale to be used

timezone - the TimeZone to be used

Returns:

an instance of DateFormat

See Also:

SimpleDateFormat, DateFormat

getDateFormat

public static DateFormat getDateFormat(String dateStyle,
                                       String timeStyle,
                                       Locale locale,
                                       TimeZone timezone)

Returns a DateFormat instance for the specified date style, time style, Locale, and TimeZone.

Parameters:

dateStyle - the date style

timeStyle - the time style

locale - the Locale to be used

timezone - the TimeZone to be used

Returns:

an instance of DateFormat

See Also:

getDateFormat(int timeStyle, int dateStyle, Locale locale, TimeZone timezone)

getDateFormat

public static DateFormat getDateFormat(int dateStyle,
                                       int timeStyle,
                                       Locale locale,
                                       TimeZone timezone)

Returns a DateFormat instance for the specified time style, date style, Locale, and TimeZone.

Parameters:

dateStyle - the date style (date will be ignored if this is less than zero and the date style is not)

timeStyle - the time style (time will be ignored if this is less than zero and the date style is not)

locale - the Locale to be used

timezone - the TimeZone to be used

Returns:

an instance of DateFormat or null if an instance cannot be constructed with the given parameters

getDateStyleAsInt

public static int getDateStyleAsInt(String style)

Checks a string to see if it matches one of the standard DateFormat style patterns: full, long, medium, short, or default. If it does, it will return the integer constant for that pattern. If not, it will return -1.

Parameters:

style - the string to be checked

Returns:

the int identifying the style pattern

See Also:

DateFormat

toDate

public static Date toDate(Object obj)

Attempts to convert an unidentified Object into a Date, just short of turning it into a string and parsing it. In other words, this will convert to Date from a Date, Calendar, or Number. If it can't do that, it will return null.

Parameters:

obj - - the object to convert

Returns:

the converted Date, or null if the conversion failed

toDate

public static Date toDate(Object obj,
                          String format,
                          Locale locale,
                          TimeZone timezone)

Converts an object to an instance of Date using the specified format, Locale, and TimeZone if the object is not already an instance of Date, Calendar, or Long.

Parameters:

obj - - the date to convert

format - - the format the date is in

locale - - the Locale

timezone - - the TimeZone

Returns:

the object as a Date or null if no conversion is possible

See Also:

getDateFormat(java.lang.String, java.util.Locale, java.util.TimeZone), SimpleDateFormat.parse(java.lang.String, java.text.ParsePosition)

toDate

public static Date toDate(String str,
                          String format,
                          Locale locale,
                          TimeZone timezone)

Converts an object to an instance of Date using the specified format, Locale, and TimeZone if the object is not already an instance of Date, Calendar, or Long.

Parameters:

str - - the string to parse

format - - the format the date is in

locale - - the Locale

timezone - - the TimeZone

Returns:

the string as a Date or null if the parsing fails

See Also:

getDateFormat(java.lang.String, java.util.Locale, java.util.TimeZone), SimpleDateFormat.parse(java.lang.String, java.text.ParsePosition)

toCalendar

public static Calendar toCalendar(Date date,
                                  Locale locale)

toString

public static String toString(Object value)

Converts objects to String in a more Tools-ish way than String.valueOf(Object), especially with nulls, Arrays and Collections. Null returns null, Arrays and Collections return their first value, or null if they have no values.

Parameters:

value - the object to be turned into a String

Returns:

the string value of the object or null if the value is null or it is an array whose first value is null

toString

public static String toString(Collection values)

Returns the first value as a String, if any; otherwise returns null.

Parameters:

values - the Collection to be turned into a string

Returns:

the string value of the first object in the collection or null if the collection is empty

toBoolean

public static Boolean toBoolean(Object value)

Converts any Object to a boolean using toString(Object) and Boolean.valueOf(String).

Parameters:

value - the object to be converted

Returns:

a Boolean object for the specified value or null if the value is null or the conversion failed

toLocale

public static Locale toLocale(String value)

Converts a string to a Locale

Parameters:

value - - the string to parse

Returns:

the Locale or null if the parsing fails

toURL

public static URL toURL(String value)

Converts a string to a URL. It will first try to treat the string as a File name, then a classpath resource, then finally as a literal URL. If none of these work, then this will return null.

Parameters:

value - - the string to parse

Returns:

the URL form of the string or null

See Also:

File, ClassUtils.getResource(String,Object), URL

toURL

public static URL toURL(String value,
                        Object caller)

Converts a string to a URL. It will first try to treat the string as a File name, then a classpath resource, then finally as a literal URL. If none of these work, then this will return null.

Parameters:

value - - the string to parse

caller - - the object or Class seeking the url

Returns:

the URL form of the string or null

See Also:

File, ClassUtils.getResource(String,Object), URL

asList

public static List asList(Object value)