[POLYGENE-22] Add toValue() and toEntity() methods to the Qi4j API.

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.1
• Assignee: Niclas Hedhman
• Reporter: Niclas Hedhman
• Created: 14/May/15 04:51
• Updated: 22/Aug/15 06:12
• Resolved: 12/Jun/15 01:08

Description

Rickard added the support for handling Associations in Values, and we also now have the full support of sharing super-types between Entities and Values.

So, it would make sense that if I declare the assembly;

module.entities( Person.class );
module.values( Person.class );

that I could do;

Person entity = ...;
Person value = api.toValue( Person,class, entity );

as well as the other way around;

Person value = ...;
Person entity = api.toEntity( Person.class, entity );

The implementation of this is fairly small and straight forward, and I have most of it in place in my project already, but I think it really belongs in the API itself, as this would be super-neat for Rest APIs and other work outside of UnitOfWorks.

Issue Links

• is blocked by: POLYGENE-23 Strange Serialization exception