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| <H1>Converters</H1> | |
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| <h6 class="CaptionFigColumn SchemaHeader">Identifier: </h6>org.eclipse.xwt.pde.converters<p></p> | |
| <h6 class="CaptionFigColumn SchemaHeader">Since: </h6>[Enter the first release in which this extension point appears.] | |
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| <h6 class="CaptionFigColumn SchemaHeader">Description: </h6>This extension point is used to declare a new data converter<p></p> | |
| <h6 class="CaptionFigColumn SchemaHeader">Configuration Markup:</h6> | |
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| <p class="code SchemaDtd"><!ELEMENT <a name="e.extension">extension</a> (<a href="#e.converter">converter</a>*)></p> | |
| <p class="code SchemaDtd"><!ATTLIST extension</p> | |
| <p class="code SchemaDtdAttlist">point CDATA #REQUIRED<p class="code SchemaDtdAttlist">id CDATA #IMPLIED<p class="code SchemaDtdAttlist">name CDATA #IMPLIED></p> | |
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| <ul class="ConfigMarkupAttlistDesc"> | |
| </ul> | |
| <br><p class="code SchemaDtd"><!ELEMENT <a name="e.converter">converter</a> EMPTY></p> | |
| <p class="code SchemaDtd"><!ATTLIST converter</p> | |
| <p class="code SchemaDtdAttlist">name CDATA #REQUIRED<p class="code SchemaDtdAttlist">class CDATA #REQUIRED></p> | |
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| Data converter element</p> | |
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| <ul class="ConfigMarkupAttlistDesc"> | |
| <li><b>name</b> - the name</li> | |
| <li><b>class</b> - The class of converter must implement the interface org.eclipse.core.databinding.conversion.IConverter</li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <br><h6 class="CaptionFigColumn SchemaHeader">Examples: </h6>Here is an example to define the converter from String to URL: | |
| <pre class="Example"><span class="code SchemaTag"> | |
| <extension | |
| point=</span><span class="code SchemaCstring">"org.eclipse.xwt.pde.converters"</span><span class="code SchemaTag">> | |
| <converter | |
| class=</span><span class="code SchemaCstring">"org.eclipse.xwt.demo.URLConverter"</span><span class="code SchemaTag"> | |
| name=</span><span class="code SchemaCstring">"URLConverter"</span><span class="code SchemaTag">> | |
| </converter> | |
| </extension> | |
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| <p>The class implementation should be: </p> | |
| <pre class="Example"><span class="code SchemaTag"> | |
| package org.eclipse.xwt.demo; | |
| import java.net.MalformedURLException; | |
| import java.net.URL; | |
| import org.eclipse.core.databinding.conversion.IConverter; | |
| public class URLConverter implements IConverter { | |
| public Object convert(Object fromObject) { | |
| try { | |
| return new URL((String) fromObject); | |
| } catch (MalformedURLException e) { | |
| throw new RuntimeException(e); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| public Object getFromType() { | |
| return String.class; | |
| } | |
| public Object getToType() { | |
| return URL.class; | |
| } | |
| } | |
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