Converter<String, Short> converter = Shorts.stringConverter();
    assertThat(converter.convert("1")).isEqualTo(1);
    assertThat(converter.convert("0")).isEqualTo(0);
    assertThat(converter.convert("-1")).isEqualTo(-1);
    assertThat(converter.convert("0xff")).isEqualTo(255);
    assertThat(converter.convert("0xFF")).isEqualTo(255);
    assertThat(converter.convert("-0xFF")).isEqualTo(-255);

                        "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",

import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;

import java.sql.Time;
import java.sql.Timestamp;
import java.util.Date;

import org.codelibs.core.beans.converter.DateConverter;
import org.codelibs.core.beans.converter.NumberConverter;
import org.codelibs.core.exception.ConverterRuntimeException;
import org.junit.Test;

/**
 * @author higa
 */
public class CopyOptionsTest {

    /**

    /**
     * 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}
     */

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import org.codelibs.core.beans.converter.DateConverter;
import org.codelibs.core.beans.converter.NumberConverter;
import org.codelibs.core.exception.NullArgumentException;
import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.rules.ExpectedException;

/**
 * @author higa

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

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

    /**
     * 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}
     */