public class FormattableFlags
extends Object

FormattableFlags are passed to the Formattable.formatTo() method and modify the output format for Formattables. Implementations of Formattable are responsible for interpreting and validating any flags.

Since:

1.5

• Field Summary

  Fields 

  Modifier and Type	Field	Description
  static int	ALTERNATE	Requires the output to use an alternate form.
  static int	LEFT_JUSTIFY	Left-justifies the output.
  static int	UPPERCASE	Converts the output to upper case according to the rules of the locale given during creation of the formatter argument of the formatTo() method.

• Method Summary

  Methods declared in class java.lang.Object

  clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

• Field Details

  • LEFT_JUSTIFY

    public static final int LEFT_JUSTIFY

    Left-justifies the output. Spaces ('\u0020') will be added at the end of the converted value as required to fill the minimum width of the field. If this flag is not set then the output will be right-justified.

    This flag corresponds to '-' ('\u002d') in the format specifier.

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  • UPPERCASE

    public static final int UPPERCASE

    Converts the output to upper case according to the rules of the locale given during creation of the formatter argument of the formatTo() method. The output should be equivalent the following invocation of String.toUpperCase(java.util.Locale)

         out.toUpperCase() 

    This flag corresponds to 'S' ('\u0053') in the format specifier.

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    Constant Field Values

  • ALTERNATE

    public static final int ALTERNATE

    Requires the output to use an alternate form. The definition of the form is specified by the Formattable.

    This flag corresponds to '#' ('\u0023') in the format specifier.

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