private static Object instantiate()

in discovery/local/src/main/java/org/apache/aries/rsa/discovery/endpoint/PropertiesMapper.java [189:231]

• 40 lines of code
• 13 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    private static Object instantiate(String type, String value) {
        if ("String".equals(type)) {
            return value;
        }

        value = value.trim();
        String boxedType = null;
        if ("long".equals(type)) {
            boxedType = "Long";
        } else if ("double".equals(type)) {
            boxedType = "Double";
        } else if ("float".equals(type)) {
            boxedType = "Float";
        } else if ("int".equals(type)) {
            boxedType = "Integer";
        } else if ("byte".equals(type)) {
            boxedType = "Byte";
        } else if ("char".equals(type)) {
            boxedType = "Character";
        } else if ("boolean".equals(type)) {
            boxedType = "Boolean";
        } else if ("short".equals(type)) {
            boxedType = "Short";
        }

        if (boxedType == null) {
            boxedType = type;
        }
        String javaType = "java.lang." + boxedType;

        try {
            if ("Character".equals(boxedType)) {
                return value.charAt(0);
            } else {
                Class<?> cls = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader().loadClass(javaType);
                Constructor<?> ctor = cls.getConstructor(String.class);
                return ctor.newInstance(value);
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            LOG.warn("Could not create Endpoint Property of type {} and value {}", type, value);
            return null;
        }
    }