Types

• The HTML table just has strings

• Primitive data types (double, boolean, etc.) are converted automatically

• Other types require toString() methods for output or parse() methods for input.

• toString() is standard. parse() method in the fixture class looks like this:

    public Object parse(String s, Class type) throws Exception {
      if (type.equals(CustomClass.class)) {
        return parseCustomClass(s);
      }
      else return super.parse(s, type);
    }
  
    private static Object parseCustomClass(String s) {
     // code to convert
    }

• You can invoke any method in the model class, the fixture class, or some other class to convert the String to the object as convenient. Here I've just made it a static method in the fixture class.