--- James Carman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, cool. I don't really like global stuff like
> that either. But,
> some libraries (beanutils for one) do that kind of
> stuff. I like the
> idea of having your own instances of this and I like
> the idea of the
> feature. Very cool! Also, the varargs feature
> would be very nice.
> They've already made MessageFormat use varargs in
> 1.5, so it would
> fit.
Doh--I hadn't noticed that. That being the case, we
should inherit it for free if ExtendedMessageFormat
does what it says and extends MessageFormat. :) So
this wouldn't require Lang moving to JDK5 just for
this.
-Matt
>
> On 10/5/07, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- James Carman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > You mean this extension would allow some sort of
> > > "registry" which is
> > > keyed by the second argument of the format
> > > expression? So, I could do
> > > something like...
> > >
> > > ExtendedMessageFormat fmt = new
> > > ExtendedMessageFormat();
> > > fmt.addFormatHandler("foo", new MyFooHandler()
> );
> > > String str = fmt.format("Hello, {0,foo}!",
> "James
> > > Carman");
> > >
> > > Now maybe you'd register the "handler" globally,
> but
> > > you get the idea.
> >
> > That's essentially the effect I want to achieve.
> As
> > for global blah, I am more interested in doing
> things
> > on a POJO basis; I think there are plenty of
> solutions
> > out there anymore that would allow a user to
> automate
> > the config for multiple instances that there's no
> > percentage in resorting to weird tricks to get all
> > instances of the proposed ExtendedMessageFormat to
> use
> > the same custom delegate formats.
> >
> > -Matt
> >
> > >
> > > On 10/5/07, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > --- 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
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
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