old/org.eclipse.emf.ecp.navigator/src/org/eclipse/emf/ecp/navigator/commands/EReferenceTypeConverter.java

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 * Technische Universitaet Muenchen.
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package org.eclipse.emf.ecp.navigator.commands;

import org.eclipse.core.commands.AbstractParameterValueConverter;
import org.eclipse.core.commands.ParameterValueConversionException;

/**
 * Converts a reference to a string.
 * @author Jonas Helming
 *
 */
public class EReferenceTypeConverter extends AbstractParameterValueConverter {



	/**
	 * {@inheritDoc}
	 * @see org.eclipse.core.commands.AbstractParameterValueConverter#convertToObject(java.lang.String)
	 */
	@Override
	public Object convertToObject(String parameterValue) throws ParameterValueConversionException {
		return parameterValue;

	}


	/**
	 * {@inheritDoc}
	 * @see org.eclipse.core.commands.AbstractParameterValueConverter#convertToString(java.lang.Object)
	 */
	@Override
	public String convertToString(Object parameterValue) throws ParameterValueConversionException {
		// We need and string representation of an EClass that can be
		// turned back to an EClass object.
		// It was tested with serialization method MRIUtil but
		// it has the problem that referenced of this EClass instance are not
		// serialized and we needed them.

		return (String) parameterValue;
	}

}