[jira] [Commented] (CAMEL-5172) TypeConverter - Tighten up API to rethrow failed exception during type conversion, and introduce new API for try to convert

["Claus Ibsen (Commented) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Claus Ibsen commented on CAMEL-5172:
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Added TypeConverterSupport as base class to make it easier to implement custom TypeConverter
                
> TypeConverter - Tighten up API to rethrow failed exception during type conversion, and introduce new API for try to convert
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>                 Key: CAMEL-5172
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-5172
>             Project: Camel
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: camel-core
>            Reporter: Claus Ibsen
>            Assignee: Claus Ibsen
>             Fix For: 2.10.0
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> The org.apache.camel.TypeConverter API would not propagate exceptions that would occur during type conversion back to the caller. But instead return null.
> We should tighten this up and introduce a new API for trying to convert, so what we would have is
> - convertTo = converts, and throws exception if failure during conversion, can return null, if no value to convert, or no type converter exists to do this
> - mandatoryConvertTo = convertTo + will throw exception if no value, eg it never returns null
> - *new* tryConvertTo = convertTo but will catch exceptions and return null (like the old behavior)
> This introduces an API change in TypeConverter. But it is more intuitive. There is some internal logic that needs to be adjust a bit due they rely on the old behavior.

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