Package javax.ws.rs.ext
Interface ParamConverterProvider
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public interface ParamConverterProvider
Contract for a provider ofParamConverter
instances.Providers implementing
ParamConverterProvider
contract must be either programmatically registered in a JAX-RS runtime or must be annotated with@Provider
annotation to be automatically discovered by the JAX-RS runtime during a provider scanning phase.- Since:
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Method Summary
All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Modifier and Type Method Description <T> ParamConverter<T>
getConverter(java.lang.Class<T> rawType, java.lang.reflect.Type genericType, java.lang.annotation.Annotation[] annotations)
Obtain aParamConverter
that can provide from/to string conversion for an instance of a particular Java type.
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Method Detail
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getConverter
<T> ParamConverter<T> getConverter(java.lang.Class<T> rawType, java.lang.reflect.Type genericType, java.lang.annotation.Annotation[] annotations)
Obtain aParamConverter
that can provide from/to string conversion for an instance of a particular Java type.- Type Parameters:
T
- the supported Java type convertible to/from aString
format.- Parameters:
rawType
- the raw type of the object to be converted.genericType
- the type of object to be converted. E.g. if an String value representing the injected request parameter is to be converted into a method parameter, this will be the formal type of the method parameter as returned byClass.getGenericParameterTypes
.annotations
- an array of the annotations associated with the convertible parameter instance. E.g. if a string value is to be converted into a method parameter, this would be the annotations on that parameter as returned byMethod.getParameterAnnotations()
.- Returns:
- the string converter, otherwise
null
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