001 // Copyright 2004, 2005 The Apache Software Foundation
002 //
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014
015 package org.apache.hivemind.schema.rules;
016
017 import org.apache.hivemind.HiveMind;
018 import org.apache.hivemind.Location;
019 import org.apache.hivemind.internal.Module;
020 import org.apache.hivemind.schema.Translator;
021 import org.apache.hivemind.util.InstanceCreationUtils;
022
023 /**
024 * Used to translate from a class name to an instance of the class.
025 *
026 * @author Howard Lewis Ship
027 */
028 public class InstanceTranslator implements Translator
029 {
030 public Object translate(Module contributingModule, Class propertyType, String inputValue,
031 Location location)
032 {
033 if (HiveMind.isBlank(inputValue))
034 return null;
035
036 return InstanceCreationUtils.createInstance(contributingModule, inputValue, location);
037 }
038
039 }