Components/Binder/Castle.Components.Binder/IConverter.cs

   1 // Copyright 2004-2008 Castle Project - http://www.castleproject.org/
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  14
  15 namespace Castle.Components.Binder
  16 {
  17         using System;
  18
  19         /// <summary>
  20         /// Depicts the contract for implementations able to convert an object
  21         /// -- usually a string -- to the specified desired type.
  22         /// </summary>
  23         public interface IConverter
  24         {
  25                 object Convert(Type desiredType, Type inputType, object input, out bool conversionSucceeded);
  26
  27                 bool CanConvert(Type desiredType, Type inputType, object input, out bool exactMatch);
  28
  29 //              object Convert(Type desiredType, object input);
  30 //
  31 //              object Convert(Type desiredType, object input, out bool conversionSucceeded);
  32         }
  33 }