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Current rules for Object Conversion in Value Maps implemented in API ValueMapDecorator and JCR ValueMap.

Rules for single values

Rule / Already supported by:API 2.16.2
ValueMapDecorator
jcr.resource 2.9.2
ValueMap
Any Object -> String (via toString)(tick)(tick)
String or any Number type -> Integer and vice versa(tick)(tick)
String or any Number type -> Long and vice versa(tick)(tick)
String or any Number type -> Double and vice versa(tick)(tick)
String -> Boolean and vice versa(tick)(tick)
Convert any number type of (Long, Byte, Short, Integer, Double, Float, BigDecimal) -> to each of them or String and vice versa(warning) currently missing(tick)
Convert any date type of (Calendar, Date) -> to each of them or String and vice versa(warning) currently missing(tick)

Convert any type of (Long, Byte, Short, Integer, Double, Float, Calendar, Date, Boolean, BigDecimal) -> to each of them - including exotic conversion like Boolean to Date

(error) we do not want to support the conversion that make less sense

(tick)

Rules for Arrays

  • Convert single value to singleton array if array is requested
  • Convert array types if conversion is supported for the type of the array elements

 

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