Field Detail

• DECIMAL_DIGITS_TO_PRINT

  public static final int DECIMAL_DIGITS_TO_PRINT

  See Also:

  Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

• FormatUtil

  public FormatUtil()

  Constructs a new FormatUtil and initializes various internal formatters. This is necessary because SimpleDateFormat and other formatters are not threadsafe.

Method Detail

• format

  public String format​(short value)

  Formats a short to an integer string.

• format

  public String format​(int value)

  Formats an int to an integer string.

• format

  public String format​(long value)

  Formats a long to an integer string.

• format

  public String format​(float value)

  Formats a float to a floating point string.

• format

  public String format​(double value)

  Formats a double to a floating point string.

• format

  public String format​(char value)

  Formats a char as a string.

• format

  public String format​(Enum value)

  Formats an enum to the String representation of an enum.

• format

  public String format​(Date value)

  Formats a date to a date string without time.

• format

  public String format​(Iso8601Date value)

  Formats date & time

• format

  public String format​(boolean value)

  Formats a boolean value to a String.

• format

  public String format​(Object value)

  Attempts to determine the type of value and format it appropriately.

• parseShort

  public short parseShort​(String value)

  Parses a String into a short.

• parseInt

  public int parseInt​(String value)

  Parses a String into an int.

• parseLong

  public long parseLong​(String value)

  Parses a String into a long.

• parseFloat

  public float parseFloat​(String value)

  Parses a String into a float.

• parseDouble

  public double parseDouble​(String value)

  Parses a String into a double.

• parseEnum

  public <E extends Enum> E parseEnum​(String value,
                                      Class<E> type)

  Parses a String into an Enum of the given type.

• parseDate

  public Date parseDate​(String value)

  Parses a String into a date.

• parseIso8601Date

  public Iso8601Date parseIso8601Date​(String value)

  Parse a String into an Iso8601 Date

• parseBoolean

  public boolean parseBoolean​(String value)

  Parses a String into a boolean, as per the above convention that true = Y and false = N.

• parseChar

  public char parseChar​(String value)

  Parses a String into a char. We expect the String to have a length of exactly one, otherwise throw an exception.

• parseObject

  public Object parseObject​(String value,
                            Class<?> returnType)

  Attempts to determine the correct parse method to call based on the desired return type and then parses the String and returns the value.

  Parameters:

  value - the String value to be parsed

  returnType - the desired return type

  Returns:

  an object of the returnType