001    /**
002     * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
003     * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
004     * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
005     * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
006     * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
007     * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
008     *
009     *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
010     *
011     * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
012     * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
013     * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
014     * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
015     * limitations under the License.
016     */
017    package org.apache.camel.spi;
018    
019    import org.apache.camel.TypeConverter;
020    
021    /**
022     * Registry for type converters.
023     *
024     * @version $Revision: 738826 $
025     */
026    public interface TypeConverterRegistry {
027    
028        /**
029         * Registers a new type converter
030         *
031         * @param toType        the type to convert to
032         * @param fromType      the type to convert from
033         * @param typeConverter the type converter to use
034         */
035        void addTypeConverter(Class toType, Class fromType, TypeConverter typeConverter);
036    
037        /**
038         * Registers a new fallback type converter
039         *
040         * @param typeConverter the type converter to use
041         */
042        void addFallbackTypeConverter(TypeConverter typeConverter);
043    
044        /**
045         * Performs a lookup for a given type converter.
046         *
047         * @param toType        the type to convert to
048         * @param fromType      the type to convert from
049         * @return the type converter or null if not found.
050         */
051        TypeConverter lookup(Class toType, Class fromType);
052    
053        /**
054         * Sets the injector to be used for creating new instances during type convertions.
055         */
056        void setInjector(Injector injector);
057    
058        /**
059         * Gets the injector
060         */
061        Injector getInjector();
062    }