How Can I Check an Object to See its Type and Return A Casted Object
- by Russ Bradberry
I have method to which I pass an object. In this method I check it's type and depending on the type I do something with it and return a Long. I have tried every which way I can think of to do this and I always get several compiler errors telling me it expects a certain object but gets another. Can someone please explain to me what I am doing wrong and guide me in the right direction? What I have tried thus far is below:
override def getInteger(obj:Object) = {
if (obj.isInstanceOf[Object]) null
else if (obj.isInstanceOf[Number])
(obj:Number).longValue()
else if (obj.isInstanceOf[Boolean])
if (obj:Boolean) 1 else 0
else if (obj.isInstanceOf[String])
if ((obj:String).length == 0 | (obj:String) == "null")
null
else
try {
Long.parse(obj:String)
} catch {
case e: Exception => throw new ValueConverterException("value \"" + obj.toString() + "\" of type " + obj.getClass().getName() + " is not convertible to Long")
}
}
