From e153a1a968d6985828375b0f6daa38cba0b8d29e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Keith Donald <kdonald@vmware.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:05:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] tidying string to char conversion

---
 .../core/convert/support/StringToCharacterConverter.java       | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/convert/support/StringToCharacterConverter.java b/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/convert/support/StringToCharacterConverter.java
index 7b710fc6e5d..1279abf062a 100644
--- a/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/convert/support/StringToCharacterConverter.java
+++ b/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/convert/support/StringToCharacterConverter.java
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ class StringToCharacterConverter implements Converter<String, Character> {
 		if ("".equals(source)) {
 			return null;
 		}
+		if (source.length() > 1) {
+			throw new IllegalArgumentException("Can only convert a [String] with length of 1 to a [Character]; string value '" + source + "'  has length of " + source.length());
+		}
 		return source.charAt(0);
 	}