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annotate framework/env/convert/from_human.lua @ 3:795b764629ca
Version 1.0.3
Important bugfix related to internal forwards (Bug was introduced by the restriction of views with underscore prefix in Version 1.0.2)
Important bugfix related to internal forwards (Bug was introduced by the restriction of views with underscore prefix in Version 1.0.2)
| author | jbe |
|---|---|
| date | Thu Dec 10 12:00:00 2009 +0100 (2009-12-10) |
| parents | 9fdfb27f8e67 |
| children |
| rev | line source |
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| jbe/bsw@0 | 1 function convert.from_human(str, typ) |
| jbe/bsw@0 | 2 if not typ then |
| jbe/bsw@0 | 3 error("Using convert.from_human(...) to convert a human readable string to an internal data type needs a type to be specified as second parameter.") |
| jbe/bsw@0 | 4 end |
| jbe/bsw@0 | 5 if not str then return nil end -- TODO: decide, if an error should be raised instead |
| jbe/bsw@0 | 6 local type_symbol = convert._type_symbol_mappings[typ] |
| jbe/bsw@0 | 7 if not type_symbol then |
| jbe/bsw@0 | 8 error("Unrecognized type reference passed to convert.from_human(...).") |
| jbe/bsw@0 | 9 end |
| jbe/bsw@0 | 10 local converter = convert["_from_human_to_" .. type_symbol] |
| jbe/bsw@0 | 11 if not converter then |
| jbe/bsw@0 | 12 error("Type reference passed to convert.from_human(...) was recognized, but the converter function is not existent.") |
| jbe/bsw@0 | 13 end |
| jbe/bsw@0 | 14 return converter(str) |
| jbe/bsw@0 | 15 end |