The com.adobe.idp.dsc.datatype package contains classes used by the container for converting data. Property editor developers can implement these classes to control how information gathered at design time behaves when it is persisted to the Service Registry or it is passed into the service container at runtime.

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	Interface	Description
	Convertable	Classes implementing this interface explicitly specify how they are converted.
	Converter	Classes implementing this interface are used to convert values to a specified target type.
	TextSerializer	TextSerializer objects are used to serialize values to and from their expected data type and their equivalent string representation.