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public Class FormattableFlags

extends Object
Class Inheritance
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

Modifier and TypeField and Description
public static final int
ALTERNATE

Requires the output to use an alternate form.

public static final int
LEFT_JUSTIFY

Left-justifies the output.

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.

Constructor Summary

AccessConstructor and Description
private
FormattableFlags()

Method Summary

Inherited from java.lang.Object:
cloneequalsfinalizegetClasshashCodenotifynotifyAlltoStringwaitwaitwait

Field Detail

ALTERNATEback to summary
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.

LEFT_JUSTIFYback to summary
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.

UPPERCASEback to summary
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.

Constructor Detail

FormattableFlagsback to summary
private FormattableFlags()