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/* Copyright (c) The m-m-m Team, Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 */
package net.sf.mmm.util.nls.base;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.Map;

import net.sf.mmm.util.component.base.AbstractComponent;
import net.sf.mmm.util.nls.api.NlsFormatter;
import net.sf.mmm.util.nls.api.NlsTemplateResolver;

/**
 * This is the abstract base implementation of the {@link NlsFormatter} interface. 

 * You should extend this class rather than directly implementing the {@link NlsFormatter} interface to gain
 * compatibility with further releases.
 *
 * @param  is the generic type of the object to {@link #format(Object, Locale, Map, NlsTemplateResolver)}.
 *
 * @author Joerg Hohwiller (hohwille at users.sourceforge.net)
 * @since 1.0.0
 */
public abstract class AbstractNlsFormatter extends AbstractComponent implements NlsFormatter {

  /**
   * The constructor.
   */
  public AbstractNlsFormatter() {

    super();
  }

  @Override
  public String format(O object, Locale locale, Map arguments, NlsTemplateResolver resolver) {

    try {
      StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder();
      format(object, locale, arguments, resolver, buffer);
      return buffer.toString();
    } catch (IOException e) {
      throw new IllegalStateException("Error writing to a", e);
    }
  }

}