annotate framework/env/convert/from_human.lua @ 435:f704f35923e2
Added a (currently unused) pure Lua version of extos.pfilter(...)
 | author | jbe | 
 | date | Sat Jan 16 04:44:16 2016 +0100 (2016-01-16) | 
 | parents | 9fdfb27f8e67 | 
 | children |  | 
 
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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 |