net.time4j

Enum Platform

java.lang.Object

java.lang.Enum<Platform>

net.time4j.Platform

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Comparable<Platform>, ChronoPattern<Platform>

public enum Platform
extends Enum<Platform>
implements ChronoPattern<Platform>

Defines the default format pattern of the actual platform.

This pattern type is applicable on the four basic types of Time4J, namely PlainDate, PlainTime, PlainTimestamp and Moment.

Since:

3.0

Author:

Meno Hochschild

Enum Constant Summary

Enum Constants

Enum Constant and Description
PATTERN The details of the platform pattern syntax are platform-dependent and will follow the syntax described in the Java-6-version of SimpleDateFormat.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
FormatEngine<Platform>	getFormatEngine() Yields the format engine this pattern is designed for.
static Platform	valueOf(String name) Returns the enum constant of this type with the specified name.
static Platform[]	values() Returns an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Enum

compareTo, equals, getDeclaringClass, hashCode, name, ordinal, toString, valueOf

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Enum Constant Detail

PATTERN

public static final Platform PATTERN

The details of the platform pattern syntax are platform-dependent and will follow the syntax described in the Java-6-version of SimpleDateFormat.

Note that this configuration will not use the best available format engine. A counter example are ISO-weekdates which are not supported in parsing in order to preserve compatibility with Java-6. The performance cannot be the best, too. For higher quality requirements users are strongly advised to use the alternative net.time4j.format.expert.PatternType in i18n-module.

Timezone conversions always rely on the best available timezone data which are not necessarily those of the JDK. This is even true in context of using SimpleDateFormat.

Method Detail

values

public static Platform[] values()

Returns an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared. This method may be used to iterate over the constants as follows:

for (Platform c : Platform.values())
    System.out.println(c);

Returns:

an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared

valueOf

public static Platform valueOf(String name)

Returns the enum constant of this type with the specified name. The string must match exactly an identifier used to declare an enum constant in this type. (Extraneous whitespace characters are not permitted.)

Parameters:

name - the name of the enum constant to be returned.

Returns:

the enum constant with the specified name

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if this enum type has no constant with the specified name

NullPointerException - if the argument is null

getFormatEngine

public FormatEngine<Platform> getFormatEngine()

Description copied from interface: ChronoPattern

Yields the format engine this pattern is designed for.

Specified by:

getFormatEngine in interface ChronoPattern<Platform>

Returns:

format and parse engine to be used