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.impl.converter;
019    
020    import org.apache.camel.TypeConverter;
021    
022    /**
023     * A simple converter that can convert any object to a String type by using the toString() method of the
024     * object.
025     * 
026     * @version $Revision: 523731 $
027     */
028    public class ToStringTypeConverter implements TypeConverter {
029    
030            public <T> T convertTo(Class<T> toType, Object value) {
031            if (value != null) {
032                if (toType.equals(String.class)) {
033                    return (T) value.toString();
034                }
035            }
036            return null;
037            }
038    
039    }