oracle.jbo.domain
Class TypeFactory

java.lang.Object
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  +--oracle.jbo.domain.TypeFactory

public class TypeFactory

extends java.lang.Object

Internal: Applications should not extend this class or invoke its methods.

A utility for creating immutable Domain objects.

Create a Domain object by passing a fully qualified classname and a compatable data value to a getInstance method. The classname may be a expressed as a Class or as a String.

. The data value may be an Object or a value of any of the primitive data types.

Note that for non-String data types that do not have String constructors or that throw exceptions for empty strings ("") from their constructor or valueOf() methods, this factory assumes the value to be NULL value. So for example if an attribute is of type Number and setAttribute() is called for that attribute with a "" (empty string), the value for the attribute will be set to NULL. This helps all thin-clients to share the same logic of setting NULL values and provide similar behaviour without special-casing for "" strings. This behavior can be overruled by creating a domain for the desired data-type that has a string constructor or a valueOf(String) method that could accept "" (empty string) and convert that to some default value;

Since:

JDevloper 3.0

Constructor Summary

TypeFactory()

Method Summary

static java.lang.Object	getInstance(java.lang.Class clazz, boolean val) Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.
static java.lang.Object	getInstance(java.lang.Class clazz, byte val) Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.
static java.lang.Object	getInstance(java.lang.Class clazz, char val) Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.
static java.lang.Object	getInstance(java.lang.Class clazz, double val) Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.
static java.lang.Object	getInstance(java.lang.Class clazz, float val) Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.
static java.lang.Object	getInstance(java.lang.Class clazz, int val) Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.
static java.lang.Object	getInstance(java.lang.Class clazz, long val) Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.
static java.lang.Object	getInstance(java.lang.Class clazz, java.lang.Object val) Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.
static java.lang.Object	getInstance(java.lang.Class clazz, short val) Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.
static java.lang.Object	getInstance(java.lang.String clazz, boolean val) Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.
static java.lang.Object	getInstance(java.lang.String clazz, byte val) Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.
static java.lang.Object	getInstance(java.lang.String clazz, char val) Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.
static java.lang.Object	getInstance(java.lang.String clazz, double val) Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.
static java.lang.Object	getInstance(java.lang.String clazz, float val) Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.
static java.lang.Object	getInstance(java.lang.String clazz, int val) Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.
static java.lang.Object	getInstance(java.lang.String clazz, long val) Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.
static java.lang.Object	getInstance(java.lang.String clazz, java.lang.Object val) Creates an object of type clazz having the value
static java.lang.Object	getInstance(java.lang.String clazz, short val) Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

TypeFactory

public TypeFactory()

Method Detail

getInstance

public static java.lang.Object getInstance(java.lang.Class clazz,
                                           java.lang.Object val)

Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.

Parameters:

clazz - A fully qualified classname.

val - An object.

Returns:

An object consisting of val converted to clazz. If val is null or already of type clazz then val itself is returned.

Throws:

DataCreationException - if val is incompatable with clazz.

getInstance

public static java.lang.Object getInstance(java.lang.Class clazz,
                                           int val)

Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.

Parameters:

clazz - A fully qualified classname.

val - A 32-bit signed integer.

Returns:

An object consisting of val converted to clazz.

Throws:

DataCreationException - if val is incompatable with clazz.

getInstance

public static java.lang.Object getInstance(java.lang.Class clazz,
                                           short val)

Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.

Parameters:

clazz - A fully qualified classname.

val - A 32-bit signed integer.

Returns:

An object consisting of val converted to clazz.

Throws:

DataCreationException - if val is incompatable with clazz.

getInstance

public static java.lang.Object getInstance(java.lang.Class clazz,
                                           long val)

Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.

Parameters:

clazz - A fully qualified classname.

val - A 64-bit signed integer.

Returns:

An object consisting of val converted to clazz.

Throws:

DataCreationException - if val is incompatable with clazz.

getInstance

public static java.lang.Object getInstance(java.lang.Class clazz,
                                           float val)

Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.

Parameters:

clazz - A fully qualified classname.

val - A 32-bit floating-point value.

Returns:

An object consisting of val converted to clazz.

Throws:

DataCreationException - if val is incompatable with clazz.

getInstance

public static java.lang.Object getInstance(java.lang.Class clazz,
                                           double val)

Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.

Parameters:

clazz - A fully qualified classname.

val - A 64-bit floating-point value.

Returns:

An object consisting of val converted to clazz.

Throws:

DataCreationException - if val is incompatable with clazz.

getInstance

public static java.lang.Object getInstance(java.lang.Class clazz,
                                           byte val)

Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.

Parameters:

clazz - A fully qualified classname.

val - An 8-bit signed integer.

Returns:

An object consisting of val converted to clazz.

Throws:

DataCreationException - if val is incompatable with clazz.

getInstance

public static java.lang.Object getInstance(java.lang.Class clazz,
                                           boolean val)

Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.

Parameters:

clazz - A fully qualified classname.

val - true or false.

Returns:

An object consisting of val converted to clazz.

Throws:

DataCreationException - if val is incompatable with clazz.

getInstance

public static java.lang.Object getInstance(java.lang.Class clazz,
                                           char val)

Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.

Parameters:

clazz - A fully qualified classname.

val - A unicode character.

Returns:

An object consisting of val converted to clazz.

Throws:

DataCreationException - if val is incompatable with clazz.

getInstance

public static java.lang.Object getInstance(java.lang.String clazz,
                                           java.lang.Object val)

Creates an object of type clazz having the value

Parameters:

clazz - A fully qualified classname. val.

val - An object.

Returns:

An object consisting of val converted to clazz.

Throws:

DataCreationException - if val is incompatable with clazz.

getInstance

public static java.lang.Object getInstance(java.lang.String clazz,
                                           int val)

Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.

Parameters:

clazz - A fully qualified classname.

val - A 32-bit signed integer.

Returns:

An object consisting of val converted to clazz.

Throws:

DataCreationException - if val is incompatable with clazz.

getInstance

public static java.lang.Object getInstance(java.lang.String clazz,
                                           short val)

Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.

Parameters:

clazz - A fully qualified classname.

val - A 16-bit signed integer.

Returns:

An object consisting of val converted to clazz.

Throws:

DataCreationException - if val is incompatable with clazz.

getInstance

public static java.lang.Object getInstance(java.lang.String clazz,
                                           long val)

Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.

Parameters:

clazz - A fully qualified classname.

val - A 64-bit signed integer.

Returns:

An object consisting of val converted to clazz.

Throws:

DataCreationException - if val is incompatable with clazz.

getInstance

public static java.lang.Object getInstance(java.lang.String clazz,
                                           float val)

Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.

Parameters:

clazz - A fully qualified classname.

val - A 32-bit floating-point value.

Returns:

An object consisting of val converted to clazz.

Throws:

DataCreationException - if val is incompatable with clazz.

getInstance

public static java.lang.Object getInstance(java.lang.String clazz,
                                           double val)

Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.

Parameters:

clazz - A fully qualified classname.

val - A 64-bit floating-point value.

Returns:

An object consisting of val converted to clazz.

Throws:

DataCreationException - if val is incompatable with clazz.

getInstance

public static java.lang.Object getInstance(java.lang.String clazz,
                                           byte val)

Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.

Parameters:

clazz - A fully qualified classname.

val - An 8-bit signed integer.

Returns:

An object consisting of val converted to clazz.

Throws:

DataCreationException - if val is incompatable with clazz.

getInstance

public static java.lang.Object getInstance(java.lang.String clazz,
                                           boolean val)

Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.

Parameters:

clazz - A fully qualified classname.

val - true or false.

Returns:

An object consisting of val converted to clazz.

Throws:

DataCreationException - if val is incompatable with clazz.

getInstance

public static java.lang.Object getInstance(java.lang.String clazz,
                                           char val)

Creates an object of type clazz having the value val.

Parameters:

clazz - A fully qualified classname.

val - A unicode character.

Returns:

An object consisting of val converted to clazz.

Throws:

DataCreationException - if val is incompatable with clazz.