- java.lang.Object
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- java.text.Format
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- All Implemented Interfaces:
- Serializable, Cloneable
- Direct Known Subclasses:
- DateFormat, MessageFormat, NumberFormat
public abstract class Format extends Object implements Serializable, Cloneable
Format
is an abstract base class for formatting locale-sensitive information such as dates, messages, and numbers.Format
defines the programming interface for formatting locale-sensitive objects intoString
s (theformat
method) and for parsingString
s back into objects (theparseObject
method).Generally, a format's
parseObject
method must be able to parse any string formatted by itsformat
method. However, there may be exceptional cases where this is not possible. For example, aformat
method might create two adjacent integer numbers with no separator in between, and in this case theparseObject
could not tell which digits belong to which number.Subclassing
The Java Platform provides three specialized subclasses of
Format
--DateFormat
,MessageFormat
, andNumberFormat
--for formatting dates, messages, and numbers, respectively.Concrete subclasses must implement three methods:
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format(Object obj, StringBuffer toAppendTo, FieldPosition pos)
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formatToCharacterIterator(Object obj)
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parseObject(String source, ParsePosition pos)
MessageFormat
. Subclasses often also provide additionalformat
methods for specific input types as well asparse
methods for specific result types. Anyparse
method that does not take aParsePosition
argument should throwParseException
when no text in the required format is at the beginning of the input text.Most subclasses will also implement the following factory methods:
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getInstance
for getting a useful format object appropriate for the current locale -
getInstance(Locale)
for getting a useful format object appropriate for the specified locale
getXxxxInstance
methods for more specialized control. For example, theNumberFormat
class providesgetPercentInstance
andgetCurrencyInstance
methods for getting specialized number formatters.Subclasses of
Format
that allow programmers to create objects for locales (withgetInstance(Locale)
for example) must also implement the following class method:public static Locale[] getAvailableLocales()
And finally subclasses may define a set of constants to identify the various fields in the formatted output. These constants are used to create a FieldPosition object which identifies what information is contained in the field and its position in the formatted result. These constants should be named
item_FIELD
whereitem
identifies the field. For examples of these constants, seeERA_FIELD
and its friends inDateFormat
.Synchronization
Formats are generally not synchronized. It is recommended to create separate format instances for each thread. If multiple threads access a format concurrently, it must be synchronized externally.
- See Also:
ParsePosition
,FieldPosition
,NumberFormat
,DateFormat
,MessageFormat
, Serialized Form
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Nested Class Summary
Nested Classes Modifier and Type Class and Description static class
Format.Field
Defines constants that are used as attribute keys in theAttributedCharacterIterator
returned fromFormat.formatToCharacterIterator
and as field identifiers inFieldPosition
.
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Constructor Summary
Constructors Modifier Constructor and Description protected
Format()
Sole constructor.
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Method Summary
Methods Modifier and Type Method and Description Object
clone()
Creates and returns a copy of this object.String
format(Object obj)
Formats an object to produce a string.abstract StringBuffer
format(Object obj, StringBuffer toAppendTo, FieldPosition pos)
Formats an object and appends the resulting text to a given string buffer.AttributedCharacterIterator
formatToCharacterIterator(Object obj)
Formats an Object producing anAttributedCharacterIterator
.Object
parseObject(String source)
Parses text from the beginning of the given string to produce an object.abstract Object
parseObject(String source, ParsePosition pos)
Parses text from a string to produce an object.
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Constructor Detail
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Format
protected Format()
Sole constructor. (For invocation by subclass constructors, typically implicit.)
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Method Detail
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format
public final String format(Object obj)
Formats an object to produce a string. This is equivalent toformat
(obj, new StringBuffer(), new FieldPosition(0)).toString();
- Parameters:
obj
- The object to format- Returns:
- Formatted string.
- Throws:
IllegalArgumentException
- if the Format cannot format the given object
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format
public abstract StringBuffer format(Object obj, StringBuffer toAppendTo, FieldPosition pos)
Formats an object and appends the resulting text to a given string buffer. If thepos
argument identifies a field used by the format, then its indices are set to the beginning and end of the first such field encountered.- Parameters:
obj
- The object to formattoAppendTo
- where the text is to be appendedpos
- AFieldPosition
identifying a field in the formatted text- Returns:
- the string buffer passed in as
toAppendTo
, with formatted text appended - Throws:
NullPointerException
- iftoAppendTo
orpos
is nullIllegalArgumentException
- if the Format cannot format the given object
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formatToCharacterIterator
public AttributedCharacterIterator formatToCharacterIterator(Object obj)
Formats an Object producing anAttributedCharacterIterator
. You can use the returnedAttributedCharacterIterator
to build the resulting String, as well as to determine information about the resulting String.Each attribute key of the AttributedCharacterIterator will be of type
Field
. It is up to eachFormat
implementation to define what the legal values are for each attribute in theAttributedCharacterIterator
, but typically the attribute key is also used as the attribute value.The default implementation creates an
AttributedCharacterIterator
with no attributes. Subclasses that support fields should override this and create anAttributedCharacterIterator
with meaningful attributes.- Parameters:
obj
- The object to format- Returns:
- AttributedCharacterIterator describing the formatted value.
- Throws:
NullPointerException
- if obj is null.IllegalArgumentException
- when the Format cannot format the given object.- Since:
- 1.4
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parseObject
public abstract Object parseObject(String source, ParsePosition pos)
Parses text from a string to produce an object.The method attempts to parse text starting at the index given by
pos
. If parsing succeeds, then the index ofpos
is updated to the index after the last character used (parsing does not necessarily use all characters up to the end of the string), and the parsed object is returned. The updatedpos
can be used to indicate the starting point for the next call to this method. If an error occurs, then the index ofpos
is not changed, the error index ofpos
is set to the index of the character where the error occurred, and null is returned.- Parameters:
source
- AString
, part of which should be parsed.pos
- AParsePosition
object with index and error index information as described above.- Returns:
- An
Object
parsed from the string. In case of error, returns null. - Throws:
NullPointerException
- ifpos
is null.
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parseObject
public Object parseObject(String source) throws ParseException
Parses text from the beginning of the given string to produce an object. The method may not use the entire text of the given string.- Parameters:
source
- AString
whose beginning should be parsed.- Returns:
- An
Object
parsed from the string. - Throws:
ParseException
- if the beginning of the specified string cannot be parsed.
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