001 /* 002 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 003 * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with 004 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. 005 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 006 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with 007 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 008 * 009 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 010 * 011 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 012 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 013 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 014 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 015 * limitations under the License. 016 */ 017 package org.apache.commons.betwixt.strategy; 018 019 /** 020 * A plugin Strategy pattern for converting Java type names into 021 * element names. 022 * 023 * @author <a href="mailto:jstrachan@apache.org">James Strachan</a> 024 * @version $Revision: 438373 $ 025 */ 026 public interface NameMapper { 027 028 /** 029 * Convert the given bean or property name to name for use in XML 030 * (as an element or an attribute qname). 031 * 032 * @param typeName the string to convert 033 * @return the element name for the given bean type name 034 */ 035 String mapTypeToElementName(String typeName); 036 037 }