com.ibm.icu.text
Class UFormat

java.lang.Object
  java.text.Format
      com.ibm.icu.text.UFormat

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Cloneable, java.io.Serializable

Direct Known Subclasses:

DateFormat, MeasureFormat, MessageFormat, NumberFormat

public abstract class UFormat

extends java.text.Format

An abstract class that extends Format to provide additional ICU protocol, specifically, the getLocale() API. All ICU format classes are subclasses of this class.

Author:

weiv, Alan Liu

See Also:

ULocale, Serialized Form

Status:

Draft ICU 2.8 (retain).

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes inherited from class java.text.Format

java.text.Format.Field

Constructor Summary

UFormat()

Method Summary

ULocale

getLocale(ULocale.Type type) Return the locale that was used to create this object, or null.

Methods inherited from class java.text.Format

clone, format, format, formatToCharacterIterator, parseObject, parseObject

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

UFormat

public UFormat()

Status:

Draft ICU 2.8 (retain).

Method Detail

getLocale

public final ULocale getLocale(ULocale.Type type)

Return the locale that was used to create this object, or null. This may may differ from the locale requested at the time of this object's creation. For example, if an object is created for locale en_US_CALIFORNIA, the actual data may be drawn from en (the actual locale), and en_US may be the most specific locale that exists (the valid locale).

Note: This method will be implemented in ICU 3.0; ICU 2.8 contains a partial preview implementation. The actual locale is returned correctly, but the valid locale is not, in most cases.

Parameters:

type - type of information requested, either ULocale.VALID_LOCALE or ULocale.ACTUAL_LOCALE.

Returns:

the information specified by type, or null if this object was not constructed from locale data.

See Also:

ULocale, ULocale.VALID_LOCALE, ULocale.ACTUAL_LOCALE

Status:

Draft ICU 2.8 (retain).