Bug 127861 [DataBinding] Mark API provisional
bundles/org.eclipse.jface.databinding/src/org/eclipse/jface/databinding/converterfunctions/ConvertString2Float.java
/*
 * Copyright (C) 2005 db4objects Inc.  http://www.db4o.com
 * 
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     db4objects - Initial API and implementation
 */
package org.eclipse.jface.databinding.converterfunctions;
import org.eclipse.jface.databinding.converterfunction.IConversionFunction;
/**
 * ConvertString2Float.
 */
public class ConvertString2Float implements IConversionFunction {
	/* (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see org.eclipse.jface.binding.converter.IConverter#convert(java.lang.Object)
	 */
	public Object convert(Object source) {
        try {
            return new Float(Float.parseFloat((String) source));
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("String2Float: " + e.getMessage() + ": " + source); 
        }
	}
}