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| Copyright 2009-2013 Attila Szegedi |
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| package jdk.internal.dynalink.linker; |
| |
| import jdk.internal.dynalink.support.TypeUtilities; |
| |
| /** |
| * Optional interface that can be implemented by {@link GuardingDynamicLinker} implementations to provide |
| * language-runtime specific implicit type conversion capabilities. Note that if you implement this interface, you will |
| * very likely want to implement {@link ConversionComparator} interface too, as your additional language-specific |
| * conversions, in absence of a strategy for prioritizing these conversions, will cause more ambiguity in selecting the |
| * correct overload when trying to link to an overloaded POJO method. |
| * |
| * @author Attila Szegedi |
| */ |
| public interface GuardingTypeConverterFactory { |
| /** |
| * Returns a guarded type conversion that receives an Object of the specified source type and returns an Object |
| * converted to the specified target type. The type of the invocation is targetType(sourceType), while the type of |
| * the guard is boolean(sourceType). Note that this will never be invoked for type conversions allowed by the JLS |
| * 5.3 "Method Invocation Conversion", see {@link TypeUtilities#isMethodInvocationConvertible(Class, Class)} for |
| * details. An implementation can assume it is never requested to produce a converter for these conversions. |
| * |
| * @param sourceType source type |
| * @param targetType the target type. |
| * @return a guarded type conversion that contains a guarded invocation that can take an object (if it passes guard) |
| * and return another object that is its representation coerced into the target type. In case the factory is certain |
| * it is unable to handle a conversion, it can return null. In case the factory is certain that it can always handle |
| * the conversion, it can return an unconditional invocation (one whose guard is null). |
| * @throws Exception if there was an error during creation of the converter |
| */ |
| public GuardedTypeConversion convertToType(Class<?> sourceType, Class<?> targetType) throws Exception; |
| } |