The Android Open Source Project | 0eec464 | 2012-04-01 00:00:00 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | /* |
| 2 | * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more |
| 3 | * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with |
| 4 | * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. |
| 5 | * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 |
| 6 | * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with |
| 7 | * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at |
| 8 | * |
| 9 | * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 |
| 10 | * |
| 11 | * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software |
| 12 | * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, |
| 13 | * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. |
| 14 | * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and |
| 15 | * limitations under the License. |
| 16 | */ |
| 17 | |
| 18 | package java.text.spi; |
| 19 | |
| 20 | import java.text.BreakIterator; |
| 21 | import java.util.Locale; |
| 22 | import java.util.spi.LocaleServiceProvider; |
| 23 | |
| 24 | /** |
| 25 | * This abstract class should be extended by service providers that provide |
| 26 | * instances of {@code BreakIterator}. |
| 27 | * <p>Note that Android does not support user-supplied locale service providers. |
| 28 | * @since 1.6 |
| 29 | * @hide |
| 30 | */ |
| 31 | public abstract class BreakIteratorProvider extends LocaleServiceProvider { |
| 32 | /** |
| 33 | * Default constructor, for use by subclasses. |
| 34 | */ |
| 35 | protected BreakIteratorProvider() { |
| 36 | // Do nothing. |
| 37 | } |
| 38 | |
| 39 | /** |
| 40 | * Returns an instance of {@code BreakIterator} for word breaks in the |
| 41 | * given locale. |
| 42 | * |
| 43 | * @param locale the locale |
| 44 | * @return an instance of {@code BreakIterator} |
| 45 | * @throws NullPointerException if {@code locale == null} |
| 46 | * @throws IllegalArgumentException |
| 47 | * if locale isn't one of the locales returned from |
| 48 | * getAvailableLocales(). |
| 49 | */ |
| 50 | public abstract BreakIterator getWordInstance(Locale locale); |
| 51 | |
| 52 | /** |
| 53 | * Returns an instance of {@code BreakIterator} for line breaks in the |
| 54 | * given locale. |
| 55 | * |
| 56 | * @param locale the locale |
| 57 | * @return an instance of {@code BreakIterator} |
| 58 | * @throws NullPointerException if {@code locale == null} |
| 59 | * @throws IllegalArgumentException |
| 60 | * if locale isn't one of the locales returned from |
| 61 | * getAvailableLocales(). |
| 62 | */ |
| 63 | public abstract BreakIterator getLineInstance(Locale locale); |
| 64 | |
| 65 | /** |
| 66 | * Returns an instance of {@code BreakIterator} for character breaks in the |
| 67 | * given locale. |
| 68 | * |
| 69 | * @param locale the locale |
| 70 | * @return an instance of {@code BreakIterator} |
| 71 | * @throws NullPointerException if {@code locale == null} |
| 72 | * @throws IllegalArgumentException |
| 73 | * if locale isn't one of the locales returned from |
| 74 | * getAvailableLocales(). |
| 75 | */ |
| 76 | public abstract BreakIterator getCharacterInstance(Locale locale); |
| 77 | |
| 78 | /** |
| 79 | * Returns an instance of {@code BreakIterator} for sentence breaks in the |
| 80 | * given locale. |
| 81 | * |
| 82 | * @param locale the locale |
| 83 | * @return an instance of {@code BreakIterator} |
| 84 | * @throws NullPointerException if {@code locale == null} |
| 85 | * @throws IllegalArgumentException |
| 86 | * if locale isn't one of the locales returned from |
| 87 | * getAvailableLocales(). |
| 88 | */ |
| 89 | public abstract BreakIterator getSentenceInstance(Locale locale); |
| 90 | } |