portal.converter
Interface I_PortalConverter

All Superinterfaces:

I_PortalDictionaryObject

All Known Implementing Classes:

PortalBigDecimalClassConverter, PortalBooleanClassConverter, PortalDoubleClassConverter, PortalFloatClassConverter, PortalIntegerClassConverter, PortalLongClassConverter, PortalShortClassConverter, PortalSqlTypesConverter, PortalStringClassConverter

public interface I_PortalConverter

extends I_PortalDictionaryObject

A converter allows to convert Java object types.

All objects are represented as Strings internally by OpenVend. If any data is read/stored from external sub-systems such as SQL databases, data needs to be converted properly between OpenVend and the sub-system.

Version:

$Revision: 1.2 $

Author:

Thomas Weckert

Method Summary

java.lang.Object	convertFromPortal(java.lang.Object obj)
java.lang.Object	convertToPortal(java.lang.Object obj)

Methods inherited from interface portal.dictionary.I_PortalDictionaryObject

getName, getType

Method Detail

convertFromPortal

public java.lang.Object convertFromPortal(java.lang.Object obj)

convertToPortal

public java.lang.Object convertToPortal(java.lang.Object obj)