Talend Open Studio Cookbook

Appendix A. Common Type Conversions

The following table is a set of Java and Talend methods that allow conversion between different data types. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but will cover many of type conversions that you will encounter.

From Type	To Type	Example
String	Integer	Integer.parseInt(row1.myString)
String	Date	TalendDate.parseDate("dd-MM-yyyy",row1.myString)
String	BigDecimal	new BigDecimal(row1.myString) where myString can include decimal places. For example, 99.00
String	Float	Float.parseFloat(row1.myString)
String	Long	Long.parseLong(row1.myString)
Integer	String	variable+"" or variable.toString()
Date	String	TalendDate.formatDate("yy-MM-dd", row1.myDate)
BigDecimal	String	row1.myBigDecimal.toString() ...