Enum FormatStyle

All Implemented Interfaces:
Serializable, Comparable<FormatStyle>

public enum FormatStyle
extends Enum<FormatStyle>

Enumeration of the style of a localized date, time or date-time formatter.

These styles are used when obtaining a date-time style from configuration. See DateTimeFormatter and DateTimeFormatterBuilder for usage.

Implementation Requirements:
This is an immutable and thread-safe enum.
Since:
1.8

Enum Constants

Enum Constant and Description
FULL

Full text style, with the most detail.

LONG

Long text style, with lots of detail.

MEDIUM

Medium text style, with some detail.

SHORT

Short text style, typically numeric.

Methods

Modifier and Type Method and Description
static FormatStyle valueOf(String name)

Returns the enum constant of this type with the specified name.

static FormatStyle[] values()

Returns an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Enum

clone, compareTo, equals, finalize, getDeclaringClass, hashCode, name, ordinal, toString, valueOf

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Enum Constants

FULL

public static final FormatStyle FULL

Full text style, with the most detail. For example, the format might be 'Tuesday, April 12, 1952 AD' or '3:30:42pm PST'.

LONG

public static final FormatStyle LONG

Long text style, with lots of detail. For example, the format might be 'January 12, 1952'.

MEDIUM

public static final FormatStyle MEDIUM

Medium text style, with some detail. For example, the format might be 'Jan 12, 1952'.

SHORT

public static final FormatStyle SHORT

Short text style, typically numeric. For example, the format might be '12.13.52' or '3:30pm'.

Methods

values

public static FormatStyle[] values()

Returns an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared. This method may be used to iterate over the constants as follows:

for (FormatStyle c : FormatStyle.values())
    System.out.println(c);

Returns:
an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared

valueOf

public static FormatStyle valueOf(String name)

Returns the enum constant of this type with the specified name. The string must match exactly an identifier used to declare an enum constant in this type. (Extraneous whitespace characters are not permitted.)

Parameters:
name - the name of the enum constant to be returned.
Returns:
the enum constant with the specified name
Throws:
IllegalArgumentException - if this enum type has no constant with the specified name
NullPointerException - if the argument is null

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