diff --git a/core/src/main/java/com/opensymphony/xwork2/conversion/metadata/ConversionDescription.java b/core/src/main/java/com/opensymphony/xwork2/conversion/metadata/ConversionDescription.java
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-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-package com.opensymphony.xwork2.conversion.metadata;
-
-import com.opensymphony.xwork2.conversion.annotations.ConversionRule;
-import com.opensymphony.xwork2.conversion.impl.DefaultObjectTypeDeterminer;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
-
-import java.io.PrintWriter;
-import java.io.StringWriter;
-
-/**
- * ConversionDescription
- *
- * @author Rainer Hermanns
- * @version $Id$
- *
- * @deprecated class will be removed
- */
-@Deprecated
-public class ConversionDescription {
-
- /**
- * Jakarta commons-logging reference.
- */
- protected static Logger log = null;
-
-
- public static final String KEY_PREFIX = "Key_";
- public static final String ELEMENT_PREFIX = "Element_";
- public static final String KEY_PROPERTY_PREFIX = "KeyProperty_";
- public static final String DEPRECATED_ELEMENT_PREFIX = "Collection_";
-
- /**
- * Key used for type conversion of maps.
- */
- String MAP_PREFIX = "Map_";
-
- public String property;
- public String typeConverter = "";
- public String rule = "";
- public String value = "";
- public String fullQualifiedClassName;
- public String type = null;
-
- public ConversionDescription() {
- log = LogManager.getLogger(this.getClass());
- }
-
- /**
- * Creates an ConversionDescription with the specified property name.
- *
- * @param property property
- */
- public ConversionDescription(String property) {
- this.property = property;
- log = LogManager.getLogger(this.getClass());
- }
-
- /**
- *
- * Sets the property name to be inserted into the related conversion.properties file.
- * Note: Do not add COLLECTION_PREFIX or MAP_PREFIX keys to property names.
- *
- *
- * @param property The property to be converted.
- */
- public void setProperty(String property) {
- this.property = property;
- }
-
- /**
- * Sets the class name of the type converter to be used.
- *
- * @param typeConverter The class name of the type converter.
- */
- public void setTypeConverter(String typeConverter) {
- this.typeConverter = typeConverter;
- }
-
- /**
- * @param rule the rule prefix for COLLECTION_PREFIX or MAP_PREFIX key. Defaults to en empty String.
- */
- public void setRule(String rule) {
- if (rule != null && rule.length() > 0) {
- if (rule.equals(ConversionRule.COLLECTION.toString())) {
- this.rule = DefaultObjectTypeDeterminer.DEPRECATED_ELEMENT_PREFIX;
- } else if (rule.equals(ConversionRule.ELEMENT.toString())) {
- this.rule = DefaultObjectTypeDeterminer.ELEMENT_PREFIX;
- } else if (rule.equals(ConversionRule.KEY.toString())) {
- this.rule = DefaultObjectTypeDeterminer.KEY_PREFIX;
- } else if (rule.equals(ConversionRule.KEY_PROPERTY.toString())) {
- this.rule = DefaultObjectTypeDeterminer.KEY_PROPERTY_PREFIX;
- } else if (rule.equals(ConversionRule.MAP.toString())) {
- this.rule = MAP_PREFIX;
- }
- }
- }
-
-
- public void setType(String type) {
- this.type = type;
- }
-
- public String getType() {
- return type;
- }
-
- public String getValue() {
- return value;
- }
-
- public void setValue(String value) {
- this.value = value;
- }
-
- /**
- * Returns the conversion description as property entry.
- *
- * Example:
- * property.name = converter.className
- * Collection_property.name = converter.className
- * Map_property.name = converter.className
- * KeyProperty_name = id
- *
- *
- * @return the conversion description as property entry.
- */
- public String asProperty() {
- StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
- PrintWriter writer = null;
- try {
- writer = new PrintWriter(sw);
- writer.print(rule);
- writer.print(property);
- writer.print("=");
- if ( rule.startsWith(DefaultObjectTypeDeterminer.KEY_PROPERTY_PREFIX) && value != null && value.length() > 0 ) {
- writer.print(value);
- } else {
- writer.print(typeConverter);
- }
- } finally {
- if (writer != null) {
- writer.flush();
- writer.close();
- }
- }
-
- return sw.toString();
-
- }
-
- /**
- * Returns the fullQualifiedClassName attribute is used to create the special conversion.properties file name.
- *
- * @return full qualified class name
- */
- public String getFullQualifiedClassName() {
- return fullQualifiedClassName;
- }
-
- /**
- * The fullQualifiedClassName attribute is used to create the special conversion.properties file name.
- *
- * @param fullQualifiedClassName a full qualified class name
- */
- public void setFullQualifiedClassName(String fullQualifiedClassName) {
- this.fullQualifiedClassName = fullQualifiedClassName;
- }
-}
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/com/opensymphony/xwork2/conversion/metadata/package.html b/core/src/main/java/com/opensymphony/xwork2/conversion/metadata/package.html
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-
-Type conversion meta data classes.