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</object-type>
The ``return-type`` attribute defaults to *void*, and the ``access`` to *public*.
+
+.. _conversion-rule:
+
+conversion-rule
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+ The conversion-rule node allows you to write customized code to convert the given argument between the target
+ language and C++, and is a child of the :ref:`value-type`, :ref:`object-type`, :ref:`primitive-type` and
+ :ref:`container-type` nodes.
+
+ The code pointed by the file attribute is very tied to the generator using APIExtractor, so it don't follow any
+ rules, but the generator rules..
+
+ .. code-block:: xml
+
+ <value-type name="Foo">
+ <convertion-rule file="my_converter_implementation.h" />
+ </value-type>