Added MetricTypeConverter

api/metrics-api-jaxrs-1.1/src/main/java/org/hawkular/metrics/api/jaxrs/param/MetricTypeConverter.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2014-2015 Red Hat, Inc. and/or its affiliates
+ * and other contributors as indicated by the @author tags.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.hawkular.metrics.api.jaxrs.param;
+
+import javax.ws.rs.ext.Provider;
+
+import org.hawkular.metrics.core.api.MetricType;
+import org.jboss.resteasy.spi.StringConverter;
+
+/**
+ * A JAX-RS {@link ParamConverter} for {@link MetricType} parameters.
+ *
+ * @author Thomas Segismont
+ */
+@Provider
+public class MetricTypeConverter implements StringConverter<MetricType> {
+
+    @Override
+    public MetricType fromString(String s) {
+        return MetricType.fromTextCode(s);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString(MetricType metricType) {
+        return metricType.getText();
+    }
+}