1 /**
2 *
3 * Copyright 2003-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
4 *
5 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
6 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
7 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
8 *
9 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
10 *
11 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
12 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
13 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
14 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
15 * limitations under the License.
16 */
17
18 package org.apache.geronimo.common.propertyeditor;
19
20 import java.io.File;
21 import java.io.IOException;
22
23 /**
24 * A property editor for {@link File}.
25 *
26 * @version $Rev: 356022 $ $Date: 2005-12-11 12:58:34 -0800 (Sun, 11 Dec 2005) $
27 */
28 public class FileEditor
29 extends TextPropertyEditorSupport
30 {
31 /**
32 * Returns a URL for the input object converted to a string.
33 *
34 * @return a URL object
35 *
36 * @throws PropertyEditorException An IOException occured.
37 */
38 public Object getValue()
39 {
40 try {
41 return new File(getAsText()).getCanonicalFile();
42 }
43 catch (IOException e) {
44 throw new PropertyEditorException(e);
45 }
46 }
47 }