net.time4j.engine

Interface CalendarProvider

public interface CalendarProvider

SPI-interface for the generic access to calendar chronologies.

Since:

4.27

Author:

Meno Hochschild

See Also:

ServiceLoader

Specification:

Implementations must have a public no-arg constructor.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Optional<Chronology<? extends CalendarDate>>	findChronology(String name) Obtains a suitable chronology for given name.

Method Detail

findChronology

Optional<Chronology<? extends CalendarDate>> findChronology(String name)

Obtains a suitable chronology for given name.

The calendar name is either a simple calendar type or a combination of a calendar type and a variant separated by a hyphen. Examples: "iso8601", "persian" or "islamic-tbla".

Parameters:

name - calendar name

Returns:

calendar chronology