--- Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Out of interest; related to a JIRA issue? >
Actually no. I guess I'll go ahead and lay my cards on the table in case anyone has any wisdom for me. An obviously missing piece of java.text.MessageFormat is the ability to plug in other custom formatters. I've only seen one OSS project (msg at java.net) that addresses this, and it has a dubious configuration mechanism (magic XML classpath resource) and an IMHO useless inheritance hierarchy i.e. java.lang.Object--the project claims its XMessageFormat is a "drop-in replacement" but apparently their idea of drop-in differs from mine. IMO such a solutiion would necessarily need to extend Format and very likely MessageFormat as well; a Format implicitly understood to operate upon Object[] is good enough from a javadoc POV but I have the feeling that much existing code would cope better with a MessageFormat subclass. For these reasons I assert that I am not just indulging in NIH. Lang already provides the CompositeFormat in o.a.c.lang.text; this constitutes IMO a precedent for custom Formats to live in Lang. It is my intent to create o.a.c.lang.text.ExtendedMessageFormat (extends java.text.MessageFormat) with a pluggable means of resolving delegate formatters (optionally) specified with each "format element". My intent is to provide a subclass whose default behavior is identical to its parent class but provides extensibility for plugging in custom formats. Comments? -Matt > On 10/4/07, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > in org.apache.commons.lang.text > > > > -Matt > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you > sell. > > http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/ > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. http://farechase.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
