Introduction to Dozer

 

Dozer is a Java Bean to Java Bean mapper that recursively copies data from one object to another.

 

Features

a.   Matched property names are automatically handled by Dozer.

b.   Mapping can be specified either Programmatically or with xml configuration.

c.    Implicit data type conversion is automatically performed by Dozer mapping engine. At the time of writing this post, Dozer supports the following types of conversions:

Primitive to Primitive Wrapper

Primitive to Custom Wrapper

Primitive Wrapper to Primitive Wrapper

Primitive to Primitive

Complex Type to Complex Type

String to Primitive

String to Primitive Wrapper

String to Complex Type if the Complex Type contains a String constructor

String to Map

Collection to Collection

Collection to Array

Map to Complex Type

Map to Custom Map Type

Enum to Enum

String to any of the supported Date/Calendar Objects.

Objects containing a toString() method that produces a long representing time in (ms) to any supported Date/Calendar object.

 

 

Dependency used

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/net.sf.dozer/dozer -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>net.sf.dozer</groupId>
    <artifactId>dozer</artifactId>
    <version>5.5.1</version>
</dependency>

 

You can download all the working applications from this link.

For more information on dozer library, refer below FAQ section.

http://dozer.sourceforge.net/documentation/faq.html

 

 

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