001 /** 002 * 003 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 004 * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with 005 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. 006 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 007 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with 008 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 009 * 010 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 011 * 012 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 013 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 014 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 015 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 016 * limitations under the License. 017 */ 018 package org.apache.camel; 019 020 /** 021 * A pluggable strategy to be able to convert objects 022 * <a href="http://activemq.apache.org/camel/type-converter.html">to different types</a> 023 * such as to and from String, InputStream/OutputStream, Reader/Writer, Document, byte[], ByteBuffer etc 024 * 025 * @version $Revision: 532316 $ 026 */ 027 public interface TypeConverter { 028 /** 029 * Converts the value to the specified type 030 * @param type the requested type 031 * @param value the value to be converted 032 * @return the converted value or null if it can not be converted 033 */ 034 <T> T convertTo(Class<T> type, Object value); 035 }