net.sf.sdedit.util
Class ObjectFactory

java.lang.Object
  net.sf.sdedit.util.ObjectFactory

public final class ObjectFactory
extends Object

Utility class for creating objects from strings.

Author:

Markus Strauch

Method Summary

static Object

createFromString(Class<?> cls, String string) Creates an instance of some class from a string by calling the string constructor of the class with the string as a parameter.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

createFromString

public static Object createFromString(Class<?> cls,
                                      String string)

Creates an instance of some class from a string by calling the string constructor of the class with the string as a parameter.

Parameters:

cls - the class of which an instance is to be created, if it is a primitive type, an instance of the corresponding class will be created

string - the string from which the instance is to be created ornull, then an instance resulting from an invokation of the no-argument constructor will be returned

Returns:

an instance of cls, created from string