javax.time.calendar.format

Interface DateTimePrinter

public interface DateTimePrinter

Strategy for printing a calendrical to an appendable.

The printer may print any part, or the whole, of the input Calendrical. Typically, a complete print is constructed from a number of smaller units, each outputting a single field.

DateTimePrinter is an interface and must be implemented with care to ensure other classes in the framework operate correctly. All instantiable implementations must be final, immutable and thread-safe.

Author:

Stephen Colebourne

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	isPrintDataAvailable(Calendrical calendrical) Checks if the calendrical contains the data necessary to be printed.
void	print(Calendrical calendrical, Appendable appendable, DateTimeFormatSymbols symbols) Prints the calendrical object to the appendable.

Method Detail

print

void print(Calendrical calendrical,
           Appendable appendable,
           DateTimeFormatSymbols symbols)
    throws IOException

Prints the calendrical object to the appendable.

Parameters:

calendrical - the calendrical to print, not null

appendable - the appendable to add to, not null

symbols - the formatting symbols to use, not null

Throws:

CalendricalPrintException - if the date time cannot be printed successfully

IOException - if the append throws an exception

isPrintDataAvailable

boolean isPrintDataAvailable(Calendrical calendrical)

Checks if the calendrical contains the data necessary to be printed.

The implementation should not check the validity of the data, just whether there is sufficient data to attempt a print.

Parameters:

calendrical - the calendrical to check, not null

Returns:

true if the calendrical can be printed, false if not