• New features, enhancements:
  • Add support for java.util.Optional<E> #40.

• New features, enhancements:
  • Add support for java.nio.file.Path.
  • Code is now built with Java 8.
  • Internal refactorings/code improvements using Java8 features.

• New features, enhancements:
  • add single argument static factory method support, regardless of method name. #29
  • Added optional support for PropertyEditor #30
  • Internal refactorings/code improvements. #30
    • This change contains a potential (minor) breaking change.
      Internally, client registered DynamicParser's are now executed after type lookup for regular Parser's. In other
      words, if a Parser matching a given type exists it will be used and no DynamicParser's will be called.

• New features, enhancements:
  • Add support for java.lang.Number type. Issue #24.
  • internal optimizations/refactorings
• Bugfixes:
  • Fixed issue #25 (Not possible to create type with valueOf(Enum) factory method)
  • Fixed issue #26 (Not possible to create type with constructor taking Enum argument)

• New features, enhancements:
  • Introduced NullStringStrategy interface according to #21.
  • [NBC] Changed contract for InputPreprocessor interface, in favor of NullStringStrategy above.
    (the actual contract change is: prepare(...) method does not support returning null objects any more).
• Bugfixes:
  • None...

• New features, enhancements:
  • Introduced DynamicParser interface, which gives clients a way to decide in runtime if a String can be parsed to any given type (according to #18).
  • [NBC] Removed method TypeParserBuilder.registerParserForTypesAssignableTo(Class<?>, Parser<?>) in favor of DynamicParser above.
  • Introduced new TypeParserException which is now thrown when parsing process fails.
  • [NBC] renamed NoSuchRegisteredTypeParserException to NoSuchRegisteredParserException
  • Introduced new methods available in all *Helper classes (according to #17)
    • Type getTargetType()
    • List<Class<T>> getParameterizedClassArguments()
    • Class<T> getParameterizedClassArgumentByIndex(int)
    • Class<T> getTargetClass()
    • Class<T> getRawTargetClass()
    • boolean isTargetTypeParameterized()
    • boolean isTargetTypeAssignableTo(Class<?>)
    • boolean isTargetTypeEqualTo(Class<?>)
    • boolean isTargetTypeEqualTo(GenericType<?>)
    • boolean isRawTargetClassAnyOf(Class<?>...)
  • Added support for these Map subinterfaces:
    • java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap
    • java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap
    • java.util.NavigableMap
    • java.util.SortedMap
  • Added support for these Map implementations:
    • java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap
    • java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentSkipListMap
    • java.util.Hashtable
    • java.util.IdentityHashMap
    • java.util.HashMap
    • java.util.TreeMap
    • java.util.WeakHashMap
  • Added support for these Collection subinterfaces:
    • java.util.concurrent.BlockingQueue
    • java.util.concurrent.BlockingDeque
    • java.util.Deque
    • java.util.Queue
    • java.util.NavigableSet
    • java.util.SortedSet
  • Added support for these Collection implementations:
    • java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentLinkedQueue
    • java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentSkipListSet
    • java.util.concurrent.CopyOnWriteArrayList
    • java.util.concurrent.CopyOnWriteArraySet
    • java.util.concurrent.LinkedBlockingDeque
    • java.util.concurrent.LinkedBlockingQueue
    • java.util.concurrent.PriorityBlockingQueue
    • java.util.ArrayDeque
    • java.util.HashSet
    • java.util.LinkedList
    • java.util.PriorityQueue
    • java.util.Stack
    • java.util.TreeSet
    • java.util.Vector
  • Added support for custom made classes with a static valueOf(...) method, where the argument can be any supported type, not just String.
  • Added support for custom made classes with a private static valueOf(...) method.
  • Added support for custom made classes with a single argument constructor where the argument can be of any supported type.
  • Added support for custom made classes with a private single argument constructor.
• Bugfixes:
  • None...

• New features, enhancements:
  • [NBC] Renamed these classes/interface/methods according to issue #10
    • interface TypeParser -> interface Parser
    • class StringToTypeParser -> class TypeParser
    • StringToTypeParserBuilder -> TypeParserBuilder
    • StringToTypeParserBuilder.registerTypeParser(...) -> registerParser(...)
    • StringToTypeParserBuilder.unregisterTypeParser(...) -> unregisterParser(...)
  • Possible to register Parser for all sub-classes of a super-class according to issue #7
    • see new method: TypeParserBuilder.registerParserForTypesAssignableTo(Class<?>, Parser<?>)
  • Added support for these java types
    • java.net.URL
    • java.net.URI
    • java.math.BigInteger
  • Re-factored unit tests
  • Added these new methods according to issue #11
    • ParserHelper.getTargetClass() : Class<T>
    • ParserHelper.getParameterizedClassArguments() : List<Class<T>>
    • ParserHelper.getParameterizedClassArgumentByIndex(int index) : Class<T>
• Bugfixes:
  • It is not possible to parse string to Class #5

This is the first initial release.

Add this in your pom.xml:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.github.drapostolos</groupId>
    <artifactId>type-parser</artifactId>
    <version>0.1.0</version>
</dependency>