001 /* LocaleNameProvider.java -- Providers of localized locale names 002 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004 This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006 GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009 any later version. 010 011 GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014 General Public License for more details. 015 016 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017 along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. 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If you modify this library, you may extend 034 this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035 obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036 exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 package java.util.spi; 039 040 import java.util.Locale; 041 042 /** 043 * A {@link LocaleNameProvider} provides localized 044 * versions of the names that represent a particular 045 * locale. Note that a <code>null</code> value may 046 * be returned, which should be treated as a lack of 047 * support for the specified {@link Locale}. 048 * 049 * @author Andrew John Hughes (gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org) 050 * @since 1.6 051 */ 052 public abstract class LocaleNameProvider 053 extends LocaleServiceProvider 054 { 055 056 /** 057 * Constructs a new {@link LocaleNameProvider}. 058 * Provided for implicit invocation by subclasses. 059 */ 060 protected LocaleNameProvider() 061 { 062 } 063 064 /** 065 * Returns the localized name for the specified ISO 3166 066 * country in the supplied {@link java.util.Locale}. 067 * For example, if the country code is <code>"DE"</code>, 068 * this method will return <code>"Germany"</code> for 069 * {@link Locale.ENGLISH} but <code>"Deutschland"</code> 070 * for {@link Locale.GERMANY}. If the name of the country 071 * in the given locale is not supported, <code>null</code> 072 * is returned. 073 * 074 * @param countryCode the ISO 3166 country code, consisting 075 * of two uppercase letters from 'A' to 'Z' 076 * @param locale the locale to express the country in. 077 * @return the country name, or <code>null</code> if one is 078 * not available. 079 * @throws NullPointerException if the locale is null. 080 * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the country code is 081 * not in the correct format 082 * or the locale is not one 083 * returned by 084 * {@link getAvailableLocales()} 085 * @see java.util.Locale#getDisplayCountry(java.util.Locale) 086 */ 087 public abstract String getDisplayCountry(String countryCode, 088 Locale locale); 089 090 /** 091 * Returns the localized name for the specified ISO 639 092 * language in the supplied {@link java.util.Locale}. 093 * For example, if the language code is <code>"de"</code>, 094 * this method will return <code>"German"</code> for 095 * {@link Locale.ENGLISH} but <code>"Deutsch"</code> 096 * for {@link Locale.GERMANY}. If the name of the language 097 * in the given locale is not supported, <code>null</code> 098 * is returned. 099 * 100 * @param langCode the ISO 639 language code, consisting 101 * of two lowercase letters from 'a' to 'z' 102 * @param locale the locale to express the language in. 103 * @return the country name, or <code>null</code> if one is 104 * not available. 105 * @throws NullPointerException if the locale is null. 106 * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the language code is 107 * not in the correct format 108 * or the locale is not one 109 * returned by 110 * {@link getAvailableLocales()} 111 * @see java.util.Locale#getDisplayLanguage(java.util.Locale) 112 */ 113 public abstract String getDisplayLanguage(String langCode, 114 Locale locale); 115 116 /** 117 * Returns the localized name for the specified variant 118 * in the supplied {@link java.util.Locale}. If the name 119 * of the variant in the given locale is not supported, 120 * <code>null</code> is returned. 121 * 122 * @param variant the variant. 123 * @param locale the locale to express the variant in. 124 * @return the localized variant, or <code>null</code> if one is 125 * not available. 126 * @throws NullPointerException if the locale is null. 127 * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the locale is not one 128 * returned by 129 * {@link getAvailableLocales()} 130 * @see java.util.Locale#getDisplayVariant(java.util.Locale) 131 */ 132 public abstract String getDisplayVariant(String variant, 133 Locale locale); 134 135 }