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Commit 11139563 authored by Elliott Hughes's avatar Elliott Hughes Committed by Android Git Automerger
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am dbca824d: Merge "Add DateFormat.getBestDateTimePattern." into jb-mr2-dev

* commit 'dbca824d':
  Add DateFormat.getBestDateTimePattern.
parents 69fe4069 dbca824d
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@@ -22805,6 +22805,7 @@ package android.text.format {
    method public static java.lang.CharSequence format(java.lang.CharSequence, long);
    method public static java.lang.CharSequence format(java.lang.CharSequence, java.util.Date);
    method public static java.lang.CharSequence format(java.lang.CharSequence, java.util.Calendar);
    method public static java.lang.String getBestDateTimePattern(java.util.Locale, java.lang.String);
    method public static java.text.DateFormat getDateFormat(android.content.Context);
    method public static char[] getDateFormatOrder(android.content.Context);
    method public static java.text.DateFormat getLongDateFormat(android.content.Context);
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@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.TimeZone;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import libcore.icu.ICU;
import libcore.icu.LocaleData;

/**
@@ -43,6 +44,9 @@ import libcore.icu.LocaleData;
 * for both formatting and parsing dates. For the canonical documentation
 * of format strings, see {@link java.text.SimpleDateFormat}.
 *
 * <p>In cases where the system does not provide a suitable pattern,
 * this class offers the {@link #getBestDateTimePattern} method.
 *
 * <p>The {@code format} methods in this class implement a subset of Unicode
 * <a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Date_Format_Patterns">UTS #35</a> patterns.
 * The subset currently supported by this class includes the following format characters:
@@ -163,6 +167,37 @@ public class DateFormat {
        return value.equals("24");
    }

    /**
     * Returns the best possible localized form of the given skeleton for the given
     * locale. A skeleton is similar to, and uses the same format characters as, a Unicode
     * <a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Date_Format_Patterns">UTS #35</a>
     * pattern.
     *
     * <p>One difference is that order is irrelevant. For example, "MMMMd" will return
     * "MMMM d" in the {@code en_US} locale, but "d. MMMM" in the {@code de_CH} locale.
     *
     * <p>Note also in that second example that the necessary punctuation for German was
     * added. For the same input in {@code es_ES}, we'd have even more extra text:
     * "d 'de' MMMM".
     *
     * <p>This method will automatically correct for grammatical necessity. Given the
     * same "MMMMd" input, this method will return "d LLLL" in the {@code fa_IR} locale,
     * where stand-alone months are necessary. Lengths are preserved where meaningful,
     * so "Md" would give a different result to "MMMd", say, except in a locale such as
     * {@code ja_JP} where there is only one length of month.
     *
     * <p>This method will only return patterns that are in CLDR, and is useful whenever
     * you know what elements you want in your format string but don't want to make your
     * code specific to any one locale.
     *
     * @param locale the locale into which the skeleton should be localized
     * @param skeleton a skeleton as described above
     * @return a string pattern suitable for use with {@link java.text.SimpleDateFormat}.
     */
    public static String getBestDateTimePattern(Locale locale, String skeleton) {
        return ICU.getBestDateTimePattern(skeleton, locale.toString());
    }

    /**
     * Returns a {@link java.text.DateFormat} object that can format the time according
     * to the current locale and the user's 12-/24-hour clock preference.