From 7a11c7d53d9546aa639a2e960811e321805ec643 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kai Moritz <kai@juplo.de>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 00:19:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Implemented a Locale-to-String converter

---
 .../juplo/jpa/converters/LocaleConverter.java | 27 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/main/java/de/juplo/jpa/converters/LocaleConverter.java

diff --git a/src/main/java/de/juplo/jpa/converters/LocaleConverter.java b/src/main/java/de/juplo/jpa/converters/LocaleConverter.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..da84d15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/de/juplo/jpa/converters/LocaleConverter.java
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package de.juplo.jpa.converters;
+
+import java.util.Locale;
+import javax.persistence.AttributeConverter;
+import javax.persistence.Converter;
+
+
+/**
+ * Converts a {@link Locale} into its {@link String} representation as a
+ * well-formed IETF BCP 47 language tag.
+ * @author Kai Moritz
+ */
+@Converter(autoApply = true)
+public class LocaleConverter implements AttributeConverter<Locale, String>
+{
+  @Override
+  public String convertToDatabaseColumn(Locale locale)
+  {
+    return locale.toLanguageTag();
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public Locale convertToEntityAttribute(String string)
+  {
+    return Locale.forLanguageTag(string);
+  }
+}
-- 
2.20.1