Klojang Invoke

Klojang Convert contains classes aimed at converting values of one type into values of another type. The Morph class is capable of converting a wide variety of input types to a wide variety of output types.

Klojang Invoke is mainly intended as a supporting library for Klojang Invoke where it is used to enable loosely typed bean writing.

Getting Started

To use Klojang Convert, add the following dependency to your Maven POM file:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.klojang</groupId>
    <artifactId>klojang-convert</artifactId>
    <version>24.1.0</version>
</dependency>

or Gradle build script:

implementation group: 'org.klojang', name: 'klojang-convert', version: '24.1.0'

Documentation

The Javadocs for Klojang Convert can be found here.

The latest coverage reports can be found here.

Conversion Table

Input Value (val)	Target Type	Output Value / Transformation
null	primitive	primitive default (0, 0L '\0', false, etc.)
null	object	null
instance of T	T	(T) val
Integer	int	(int) val (and so on for other primitive wrappers)
byte[]	String	new String(val, StandardCharsets.UTF_8)
char[]	String	new String(val)
?	String	val.toString()
T[]	U[]	for-each t: Morph.convert(t, U.class) (recursive call)
Collection<T>	U[]	for-each t: Morph.convert(t, U.class) (recursive call)
IntList *)	U[]	for-each i: Morph.convert(i, U.class) (recursive call)
String	byte[]	val.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)
String	char[]	val.toCharArray()
?	U[]	new U[] { val }

*) org.klojang.util.collection.IntList