Package com.aquima.interactions.project.impl

Class ValueFormatter

java.lang.Object

com.aquima.interactions.project.impl.ValueFormatter

All Implemented Interfaces:

IValueFormatter, Serializable

public class ValueFormatter
extends Object
implements IValueFormatter

Internal class, should not use.

This class is responsible for formatting and parsing values of specified DataType objects to their corresponding text and back.

Since:

6.0

Author:

F. van der Meer

See Also:

• Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
ValueFormatter(IValueFormat integerFormat, IValueFormat numberFormat, IValueFormat currencyFormat, IValueFormat percentageFormat, IValueFormat dateFormat, IValueFormat dateTimeFormat, IValueFormat booleanFormat)	Constructs a Value formatter based on the specific formatter classes.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	format(IPrimitiveValue valueObject)	This method formats the to a string representation.
static final IValueFormatter	getSensibleDefault(Locale locale)	A sensible default for when there are no formatting options.
IPrimitiveValue	parse(String text, DataType type)	This method parses the text to a IPrimitiveValue of the type specified by the data type argument.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

ValueFormatter

public ValueFormatter(IValueFormat integerFormat,
 IValueFormat numberFormat,
 IValueFormat currencyFormat,
 IValueFormat percentageFormat,
 IValueFormat dateFormat,
 IValueFormat dateTimeFormat,
 IValueFormat booleanFormat)

Constructs a Value formatter based on the specific formatter classes.

Parameters:

integerFormat - The integer number format to use for DataType.Integer

numberFormat - The number number format to use for DataType.Number

currencyFormat - The number format to use for DataType.Currency

percentageFormat - The number format to use for DataType.Percentage

dateFormat - The date format to use for DataType.Date

dateTimeFormat - The date format to use for DataType.DateTime

booleanFormat - The boolean format to use for DataType.Boolean

Method Details

getSensibleDefault

public static final IValueFormatter getSensibleDefault(Locale locale)

A sensible default for when there are no formatting options.

Parameters:

locale - the localization to use when creating the sensible default.

Returns:

A sensible default which should always succeed.

format

public String format(IPrimitiveValue valueObject)

Description copied from interface: IValueFormatter

This method formats the to a string representation.

Specified by:

format in interface IValueFormatter

Parameters:

valueObject - The primitive value whose string representation is requested.

Returns:

String representation of the primitive value.

parse

public IPrimitiveValue parse(String text,
 DataType type)

Description copied from interface: IValueFormatter

This method parses the text to a IPrimitiveValue of the type specified by the data type argument.

Specified by:

parse in interface IValueFormatter

Parameters:

text - The input text which should be parsed. Preferably String. However some primitive object handling is included.

type - The data type to which the string should be converted.

Returns:

The primitive value for the specified data type and text.