MessageFormat.Field (Java 2 Platform SE 5.0) (original) (raw)

java.text

Class MessageFormat.Field

java.lang.Object extended by java.text.AttributedCharacterIterator.Attribute java.text.Format.Field java.text.MessageFormat.Field

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

Enclosing class:

MessageFormat

public static class MessageFormat.Field

extends Format.Field

Defines constants that are used as attribute keys in theAttributedCharacterIterator returned from MessageFormat.formatToCharacterIterator.

Since:

1.4

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary
static MessageFormat.Field	ARGUMENT Constant identifying a portion of a message that was generated from an argument passed into formatToCharacterIterator.

Fields inherited from class java.text.AttributedCharacterIterator.Attribute
INPUT_METHOD_SEGMENT, LANGUAGE, READING

Constructor Summary
protected	MessageFormat.Field(String name) Creates a Field with the specified name.

Method Summary
protected Object	readResolve() Resolves instances being deserialized to the predefined constants.

Methods inherited from class java.text.AttributedCharacterIterator.Attribute
equals, getName, hashCode, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, [wait](../../java/lang/Object.html#wait%28long, int%29)

Field Detail

ARGUMENT

public static final MessageFormat.Field ARGUMENT

Constant identifying a portion of a message that was generated from an argument passed into formatToCharacterIterator. The value associated with the key will be an Integer indicating the index in the arguments array of the argument from which the text was generated.

Constructor Detail

MessageFormat.Field

protected MessageFormat.Field(String name)

Creates a Field with the specified name.

Parameters:

name - Name of the attribute

Method Detail

readResolve

protected Object readResolve() throws InvalidObjectException

Resolves instances being deserialized to the predefined constants.

Overrides:

[readResolve](../../java/text/AttributedCharacterIterator.Attribute.html#readResolve%28%29) in class [AttributedCharacterIterator.Attribute](../../java/text/AttributedCharacterIterator.Attribute.html "class in java.text")

Returns:

resolved MessageFormat.Field constant

Throws:

[InvalidObjectException](../../java/io/InvalidObjectException.html "class in java.io") - if the constant could not be resolved.

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