*       the same.
   *   <li>The special characters ".", "-", "*", and "_" remain the same.
   *   <li>The space character " " is converted into a plus sign "+".
   *   <li>All other characters are converted into one or more bytes using UTF-8 encoding and each
   *       byte is then represented by the 3-character string "%XY", where "XY" is the two-digit,

                        "price": 35.4,
                        "tax": 3.2,
                    },
                },
                "converted": {
                    "summary": "An example with converted data",
                    "description": "FastAPI can convert price `strings` to actual `numbers` automatically",
                    "value": {
                        "name": "Bar",

    /**
     * Parses a sequence of XML elements and converts them to the given target type.
     *
     * @param parser The XML parser
     * @param toType The target type
     * @return Converted instance of the target type
     */
    private Object parse(final MXParser parser, final TypeLiteral<?> toType) throws Exception {
        parser.require(XmlPullParser.START_TAG, null, null);

     * @return The converted {@literal String}
     */
    public static String toString(final Object value) {
        return toString(value, null);
    }

    /**
     * Converts the given object to a string.
     *
     * @param value
     *            The object to convert
     * @param pattern
     *            The pattern string
     * @return The converted {@literal String}
     */

    /**
     * Converts the value to the appropriate type if necessary based on the property type.
     *
     * @param <T>
     *            the converted type
     * @param value
     *            the value to be converted
     * @return the converted value
     */
    <T> T convertIfNeed(Object value);

    /**
     * Returns the {@link BeanDesc}.
     *
     * @return the {@link BeanDesc}

     *            The object to convert
     * @return The converted {@link Short}
     */
    public static Short toShort(final Object o) {
        return toShort(o, null);
    }

    /**
     * Converts to {@link Short}.
     *
     * @param o
     *            The object to convert
     * @param pattern
     *            The pattern string
     * @return The converted {@link Short}
     */

     * @return The converted {@link BigInteger}
     */
    public static BigInteger toBigInteger(final Object o) {
        return toBigInteger(o, null);
    }

    /**
     * Converts to {@link BigInteger}.
     *
     * @param o
     *            The object to convert
     * @param pattern
     *            The pattern string
     * @return The converted {@link BigInteger}
     */

   *       the same.
   *   <li>The special characters ".", "-", "*", and "_" remain the same.
   *   <li>The space character " " is converted into a plus sign "+".
   *   <li>All other characters are converted into one or more bytes using UTF-8 encoding and each
   *       byte is then represented by the 3-character string "%XY", where "XY" is the two-digit,

     * @return The converted {@link BigDecimal}
     */
    public static BigDecimal toBigDecimal(final Object o) {
        return toBigDecimal(o, null);
    }

    /**
     * Converts to {@link BigDecimal}.
     *
     * @param o
     *            The object to convert
     * @param pattern
     *            The pattern string
     * @return The converted {@link BigDecimal}
     */

     * Returns the OS full name as reported by the system property "os.name".
     * The value is converted to lowercase for consistency.
     *
     * @return the operating system name (never null)
     */
    @Nonnull
    String name();

    /**
     * Returns the OS architecture as reported by the system property "os.arch".
     * The value is converted to lowercase for consistency.
     *