AttributeConverter

interfacein packageklyn.data.mapping

public interface AttributeConverter<T, TProvider>

AttributeConverter

Converts one mapped Klyn value to and from a provider value.

Implementations are statically typed and must not rely on reflection during ordinary entity materialization or persistence.

Example

@Converter(autoApply=true)
public class EmailConverter implements AttributeConverter<Email, String>:

    public toProvider(value as Email) as String:
        return value.toString()

    public fromProvider(value as String) as Email:
        return Email(value)

Methods

Modifier and Type	Member	Description
public	fromProvider `fromProvider(value as TProvider) as T`	Converts a provider value to its entity property representation.
public	toProvider `toProvider(value as T) as TProvider`	Converts an entity property value to its provider representation.