java.lang.Object java.text.Format
public abstract class Format
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 into Strings (the format method) and for parsing Strings back into objects (the parseObject method).
Generally, a format's parseObject method must be able to parse any string formatted by its format method. However, there may be exceptional cases where this is not possible. For example, a format method might create two adjacent integer numbers with no separator in between, and in this case the parseObject could not tell which digits belong to which number.
The Java 2 platform provides three specialized subclasses of Format-- DateFormat, MessageFormat, and NumberFormat--for formatting dates, messages, and numbers, respectively.
Concrete subclasses must implement three methods:
format(Object obj, StringBuffer toAppendTo, FieldPosition pos)formatToCharacterIterator(Object obj)parseObject(String source, ParsePosition pos)MessageFormat. Subclasses often also provide additional format methods for specific input types as well as parse methods for specific result types. Any parse method that does not take a ParsePosition argument should throw ParseException when no text in the required format is at the beginning of the input text.
Most subclasses will also implement the following factory methods:
getInstance for getting a useful format object appropriate for the current localegetInstance(Locale) for getting a useful format object appropriate for the specified localegetXxxxInstance methods for more specialized control. For example, the NumberFormat class provides getPercentInstance and getCurrencyInstance methods for getting specialized number formatters.
Subclasses of Format that allow programmers to create objects for locales (with getInstance(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 where item identifies the field. For examples of these constants, see ERA_FIELD and its friends in DateFormat.
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.
ParsePosition, FieldPosition, NumberFormat, DateFormat, MessageFormat, Serialized Form
static class Format.Field
AttributedCharacterIterator returned from Format.formatToCharacterIterator and as field identifiers in FieldPosition. Format
public Format()
public final String format(Object obj)
format(obj, new StringBuffer(), new FieldPosition(0)).toString();
obj - The object to format
IllegalArgumentException - if the Format cannot format the given object
public abstract StringBuffer format(Object obj,
StringBuffer toAppendTo,
FieldPosition pos)
pos argument identifies a field used by the format, then its indices are set to the beginning and end of the first such field encountered.
obj - The object to format
toAppendTo - where the text is to be appended
pos - A FieldPosition identifying a field in the formatted text
toAppendTo, with formatted text appended
NullPointerException - if toAppendTo or pos is null
IllegalArgumentException - if the Format cannot format the given object
public AttributedCharacterIterator formatToCharacterIterator(Object obj)
AttributedCharacterIterator. You can use the returned AttributedCharacterIterator 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 each Format implementation to define what the legal values are for each attribute in the AttributedCharacterIterator, 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 an AttributedCharacterIterator with meaningful attributes.
obj - The object to format
NullPointerException - if obj is null.
IllegalArgumentException - when the Format cannot format the given object.
public abstract Object parseObject(String source,
ParsePosition pos)
The method attempts to parse text starting at the index given by pos. If parsing succeeds, then the index of pos 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 updated pos can be used to indicate the starting point for the next call to this method. If an error occurs, then the index of pos is not changed, the error index of pos is set to the index of the character where the error occurred, and null is returned.
source - A String, part of which should be parsed.
pos - A ParsePosition object with index and error index information as described above.
Object parsed from the string. In case of error, returns null.
NullPointerException - if pos is null.
public Object parseObject(String source)
throws ParseException
source - A String whose beginning should be parsed.
Object parsed from the string.
ParseException - if the beginning of the specified string cannot be parsed.
public Object clone()
clone in class Object
Cloneable
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