Interface VariableValueConversionHandler

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultVariableValueConversionHandler

public interface VariableValueConversionHandler

Handler for converting variable values between types. Used by IO parameter processing (e.g. targetType on in parameters, sourceType on out parameters) in both the BPMN and CMMN engines.

Can be plugged in on the process engine and CMMN engine configuration to customize the type conversion behavior.

Author:

Tijs Rademakers

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Object	convertValue(Object value, String type, VariableJsonMapper variableJsonMapper)	Convert a value to the specified type.

Method Details

convertValue

Object convertValue(Object value,
 String type,
 VariableJsonMapper variableJsonMapper)

Convert a value to the specified type.

Parameters:

value - the value to convert (must not be null)

type - the target type name (e.g. "string", "integer", "date", "json")

variableJsonMapper - the mapper to use for JSON/array conversions

Returns:

the converted value