Constructor Detail

• DateFormatProvider

  protected DateFormatProvider()

  Sole constructor. (For invocation by subclass constructors, typically implicit.)

Method Detail

• getTimeInstance

  public abstract DateFormat getTimeInstance(int style,
                                             Locale locale)

  Returns a new DateFormat instance which formats time with the given formatting style for the specified locale.

  Parameters:

  style - the given formatting style. Either one of DateFormat.SHORT, DateFormat.MEDIUM, DateFormat.LONG, or DateFormat.FULL.

  locale - the desired locale.

  Returns:

  a time formatter.

  Throws:

  IllegalArgumentException - if style is invalid, or if locale isn't one of the locales returned from getAvailableLocales().

  NullPointerException - if locale is null

  See Also:

  DateFormat.getTimeInstance(int, java.util.Locale)

• getDateInstance

  public abstract DateFormat getDateInstance(int style,
                                             Locale locale)

  Returns a new DateFormat instance which formats date with the given formatting style for the specified locale.

  Parameters:

  style - the given formatting style. Either one of DateFormat.SHORT, DateFormat.MEDIUM, DateFormat.LONG, or DateFormat.FULL.

  locale - the desired locale.

  Returns:

  a date formatter.

  Throws:

  IllegalArgumentException - if style is invalid, or if locale isn't one of the locales returned from getAvailableLocales().

  NullPointerException - if locale is null

  See Also:

  DateFormat.getDateInstance(int, java.util.Locale)

• getDateTimeInstance

  public abstract DateFormat getDateTimeInstance(int dateStyle,
                                                 int timeStyle,
                                                 Locale locale)

  Returns a new DateFormat instance which formats date and time with the given formatting style for the specified locale.

  Parameters:

  dateStyle - the given date formatting style. Either one of DateFormat.SHORT, DateFormat.MEDIUM, DateFormat.LONG, or DateFormat.FULL.

  timeStyle - the given time formatting style. Either one of DateFormat.SHORT, DateFormat.MEDIUM, DateFormat.LONG, or DateFormat.FULL.

  locale - the desired locale.

  Returns:

  a date/time formatter.

  Throws:

  IllegalArgumentException - if dateStyle or timeStyle is invalid, or if locale isn't one of the locales returned from getAvailableLocales().

  NullPointerException - if locale is null

  See Also:

  DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(int, int, java.util.Locale)