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/*
* Units of Measurement API
* Copyright (c) 2014-2016, Jean-Marie Dautelle, Werner Keil, V2COM.
*
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package javax.measure.format;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.measure.Unit;
/**
* Formats instances of {@link Unit} to a {@link String} or an {@link Appendable} and parses a {@link CharSequence} to a {@link Unit}.
*
* Synchronization
*
* Instances of this class are not required to be thread-safe. It is recommended to use separate format instances for each thread. If multiple threads
* access a format concurrently, it must be synchronized externally.
*
*
* @author Jean-Marie Dautelle
* @author Werner Keil
*
* @version 0.8, Nov 25, 2015
*
* @see Unit
*/
public interface UnitFormat {
/**
* Formats the specified {@link Unit}.
*
* @param unit
* the {@link Unit} to format, not {@code null}
* @param appendable
* the appendable destination.
* @return the appendable destination passed in with formatted text appended.
* @throws IOException
* if an error occurs while writing to the destination.
*/
Appendable format(Unit unit, Appendable appendable) throws IOException;
/**
* Formats the specified {@link Unit}.
*
* @param unit
* the {@link Unit} to format, not {@code null}
* @return the string representation using the settings of this {@link UnitFormat}.
*/
String format(Unit unit);
/**
* Attaches a system-wide label to the specified unit.
*
* If the specified label is already associated to a unit the previous association can be discarded or ignored. Depending on the {@link UnitFormat}
* implementation, this call may be ignored if the particular unit already has a label.
*
* If a {@link UnitFormat} implementation is explicitly immutable, similar to e.g. the result of Collections.unmodifiableList(),
* then an {@linkplain UnsupportedOperationException} may be thrown upon this call.
*
* Since UnitFormat implementations often apply the Singleton pattern, system-wide means, the label applies to every instance of
* UnitFormatA implementing UnitFormat in this case, but not every instance of UnitFormatB or UnitFormatC both
* also implementing UnitFormat. If a UnitFormat #isLocaleSensitive() it is up to the implementation, whether the label is
* ignored, applied in a local-neutral manner (in addition to its local-sensitive information) or locale-specific.
*
*
* @param unit
* the unit being labeled.
* @param label
* the new label for this unit.
* @throws IllegalArgumentException
* if the label is not a valid identifier. This may include characters not supported by a particular {@link UnitFormat} implementation
* (e.g. only ASCII characters for certain devices)
* @throws UnsupportedOperationException
* if the label operation is not supported by this {@link UnitFormat}
*/
void label(Unit unit, String label);
/**
* Returns true if this {@link UnitFormat} depends on a Locale to perform its tasks.
*
* In environments that do not support a Locale, e.g. Java ME, this usually returns false.
*
*
* @return Whether this format depends on the locale.
*/
boolean isLocaleSensitive();
/**
* Parses the text into an instance of {@link Unit}.
*
* The parse must complete normally and parse the entire text. If the parse completes without reading the entire length of the text, an exception is
* thrown. If any other problem occurs during parsing, an exception is thrown.
*
*
* @param csq
* the {@code CharSequence} to parse.
* @return the unit parsed from the specified character sequence.
* @throws ParserException
* if any problem occurs while parsing the specified character sequence (e.g. illegal syntax).
* @throws UnsupportedOperationException
* if the {@link UnitFormat} is unable to parse.
*/
Unit parse(CharSequence csq) throws ParserException;
}