protected T convertToType()

in src/main/java/org/apache/sling/jackrabbit/usermanager/impl/resource/BaseAuthorizableValueMap.java [225:268]

36 lines of code
9 McCabe index (conditional complexity)


    protected <T> T convertToType(String name, Class<T> type) {
        T result = null;

        try {
            if (authorizable.hasProperty(name)) {
                Value[] values = authorizable.getProperty(name);

                if (values == null) {
                    return null;
                }

                boolean multiValue = values.length > 1;
                boolean array = type.isArray();

                if (multiValue) {
                    if (array) {
                        result = (T) convertToArray(values,
                            type.getComponentType());
                    } else if (values.length > 0) {
                        result = convertToType(values[0], type);
                    }
                } else {
                    Value value = values[0];
                    if (array) {
                        result = (T) convertToArray(new Value[] { value },
                            type.getComponentType());
                    } else {
                        result = convertToType(value, type);
                    }
                }
            } else {
                // some synthetic property not stored with the authorizable?
                //  fallback to the default impl from the ValueMap interface
                result = ValueMap.super.get(name, type);
            }
        } catch (ValueFormatException vfe) {
            log.info(String.format("convertToType: Cannot convert value of %s to %s", name, type), vfe);
        } catch (RepositoryException re) {
            log.info(String.format("convertToType: Cannot get value of %s", name), re);
        }

        // fall back to nothing
        return result;
    }