From 0930c78ff7bc270b13276c254e5ba9ac4494a875 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nikhil Khatwani <nkhatwani85@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 21:13:32 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] BAEL-29-String Conversion changes

---
 .../java/conversion/StringConversion.java     | 60 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 60 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/java/conversion/StringConversion.java

diff --git a/core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/java/conversion/StringConversion.java b/core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/java/conversion/StringConversion.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c83ea6a20c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/java/conversion/StringConversion.java
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+package com.baeldung.java.conversion;
+
+import java.text.ParseException;
+import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
+import java.time.LocalTime;
+import java.util.Date;
+
+import com.baeldung.datetime.UseLocalTime;
+
+public class StringConversion {
+
+    public static int getInt(String str) {
+        return Integer.parseInt(str);
+    }
+
+    public static int getInteger(String str) {
+        return Integer.valueOf(str);
+    }
+
+    public static long getLongPrimitive(String str) {
+        return Long.parseLong(str);
+    }
+
+    public static Long getLong(String str) {
+        return Long.valueOf(str);
+    }
+
+    public static double getDouble(String str) {
+        return Double.parseDouble(str);
+    }
+
+    public static double getDoublePrimitive(String str) {
+        return Double.valueOf(str);
+    }
+
+    public static byte[] getByteArray(String str) {
+        return str.getBytes();
+    }
+
+    public static char[] getCharArray(String str) {
+        return str.toCharArray();
+    }
+
+    public static boolean getBooleanPrimitive(String str) {
+        return Boolean.parseBoolean(str);
+    }
+
+    public static boolean getBoolean(String str) {
+        return Boolean.valueOf(str);
+    }
+
+    public static Date getJava6Date(String str, String format) throws ParseException {
+        SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
+        return formatter.parse(str);
+    }
+
+    public static LocalTime getJava8Date(String str) throws ParseException {
+        return new UseLocalTime().getLocalTimeUsingParseMethod(str);
+    }
+}