How to name setter that does data conversion?

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Published on 2011-11-14T13:19:10Z Indexed on 2011/11/14 18:12 UTC
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I'm struggling with how to name this method, I don't like the "set" prefix, because I feel it should be reserved for normal "dumb" setters and some tools might not like it (i did not check it in checkstyle, pmd, etc., but I got a feeling they won't like it.)

for example (in java, but I feel its language agnostic)

public void setActionListenerClicked(boolean actionListenerClicked) {
    this.actionListenerClicked = actionListenerClicked ? "1" : "0";
}

The only purpose of this method is ONLY to set, this method is needed and cannot be joined with any other (because of framework used).

P.S. I DO know that question is similar to How to name multi-setter?, but I feel its not the same question.

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