public Object convertFromString()

in shell/console/src/main/java/org/apache/felix/gogo/commands/converter/DefaultConverter.java [138:204]
67 lines of code
29 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    public Object convertFromString(String value, Class toType, Object loader) throws Exception {
        toType = unwrap(toType);
        if (ReifiedType.class == toType) {
            try {
                return GenericType.parse(value, loader);
            } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
                throw new Exception("Unable to convert", e);
            }
        } else if (Class.class == toType) {
            try {
                return GenericType.parse(value, loader).getRawClass();
            } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
                throw new Exception("Unable to convert", e);
            }
        } else if (Locale.class == toType) {
            String[] tokens = value.split("_");
            if (tokens.length == 1) {
                return new Locale(tokens[0]);
            } else if (tokens.length == 2) {
                return new Locale(tokens[0], tokens[1]);
            } else if (tokens.length == 3) {
                return new Locale(tokens[0], tokens[1], tokens[2]);
            } else {
                throw new Exception("Invalid locale string:" + value);
            }
        } else if (Pattern.class == toType) {
            return Pattern.compile(value);
        } else if (Properties.class == toType) {
            Properties props = new Properties();
            ByteArrayInputStream in = new ByteArrayInputStream(value.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
            props.load(in);
            return props;
        } else if (Boolean.class == toType) {
            if ("yes".equalsIgnoreCase(value) || "true".equalsIgnoreCase(value) || "on".equalsIgnoreCase(value)) {
                return Boolean.TRUE;
            } else if ("no".equalsIgnoreCase(value) || "false".equalsIgnoreCase(value) || "off".equalsIgnoreCase(value)) {
                return Boolean.FALSE;
            } else {
                throw new RuntimeException("Invalid boolean value: " + value);
            }
        } else if (Integer.class == toType) {
            return Integer.valueOf(value);
        } else if (Short.class == toType) {
            return Short.valueOf(value);
        } else if (Long.class == toType) {
            return Long.valueOf(value);
        } else if (Float.class == toType) {
            return Float.valueOf(value);
        } else if (Double.class == toType) {
            return Double.valueOf(value);
        } else if (Character.class == toType) {
            if (value.length() == 6 && value.startsWith("\\u")) {
                int code = Integer.parseInt(value.substring(2), 16);
                return (char) code;
            } else if (value.length() == 1) {
                return value.charAt(0);
            } else {
                throw new Exception("Invalid value for character type: " + value);
            }
        } else if (Byte.class == toType) {
            return Byte.valueOf(value);
        } else if (Enum.class.isAssignableFrom(toType)) {
            return Enum.valueOf((Class<Enum>) toType, value);
        } else {
            return createObject(value, toType);
        }
    }