rs">(<a href="AttributeConverter.html" title="type parameter in AttributeConverter">X</a>&nbsp;attribute)</span></div>
<div class="block">Converts the value stored in the entity attribute into the 
 data representation to be stored in the database.</div>
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<dt>Parameters:</dt>
<dd><code>attribute</code> - the entity attribute value to be converted</dd>
<dt>Returns:</dt>
<dd>the converted data to be stored in the database column</dd>
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