From ae4f69745dbbf780323b40d5345c287ea22776f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Hahn <jrh3@att.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 13:21:08 -0500
Subject: Add convert() to Coder

This addresses Liam's review comment about moving the "translate"
method from the actor Util class into policy-common.
Added a method to Coder to convert from one object type to
another (e.g., from a Map to a POJO, or vice versa).

Issue-ID: POLICY-2363
Signed-off-by: Jim Hahn <jrh3@att.com>
Change-Id: I2a0b5ab4ce4b0eeda216a57cbe23a8bb64f64940
---
 .../org/onap/policy/common/utils/coder/Coder.java  | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'utils/src/main/java/org/onap/policy/common/utils/coder/Coder.java')

diff --git a/utils/src/main/java/org/onap/policy/common/utils/coder/Coder.java b/utils/src/main/java/org/onap/policy/common/utils/coder/Coder.java
index ec0e5e42..3049a5c2 100644
--- a/utils/src/main/java/org/onap/policy/common/utils/coder/Coder.java
+++ b/utils/src/main/java/org/onap/policy/common/utils/coder/Coder.java
@@ -31,6 +31,37 @@ import java.io.Writer;
  */
 public interface Coder {
 
+    /**
+     * Converts an object/POJO to an object of the given type.
+     *
+     * @param <T> desired type
+     * @param source source object
+     * @param clazz class of the desired object type
+     * @return the converted object
+     * @throws CoderException if an error occurs
+     */
+    default <S, T> T convert(S source, Class<T> clazz) throws CoderException {
+        if (source == null) {
+            return null;
+
+        } else if (clazz == source.getClass()) {
+            // same class - just cast it
+            return clazz.cast(source);
+
+        } else if (clazz == String.class) {
+            // target is a string - just encode the source
+            return (clazz.cast(encode(source)));
+
+        } else if (source.getClass() == String.class) {
+            // source is a string - just decode it
+            return decode(source.toString(), clazz);
+
+        } else {
+            // do it the long way: encode to a string and then decode the string
+            return decode(encode(source), clazz);
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * Encodes an object into json.
      *
@@ -44,7 +75,8 @@ public interface Coder {
      * Encodes an object into json, optionally making it "pretty".
      *
      * @param object object to be encoded
-     * @param pretty {@code true} if it should be encoded as "pretty" json, {@code false} otherwise
+     * @param pretty {@code true} if it should be encoded as "pretty" json, {@code false}
+     *        otherwise
      * @return a json string representing the object
      * @throws CoderException if an error occurs
      */
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