MessageFormat as Built-In Template Engine

The class MessageFormat (introduced with JDK 1.4) is also usable as an embedded template engine, suitable for creation of e.g. user notifications, serial emails etc.:


import static java.text.MessageFormat.format;
import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
import org.junit.Test;

public class MessageFormatTest {

    @Test
    public void embeddedTemplateEngine() {
        String template = "Dear {0}, your {1} is {2}!";
        String expected = "Dear Developer, your micro is macro!";
        String actual = format(template, "Developer", "micro", "macro");
        assertThat(actual, is(expected));
    }
}

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Comments:

MessageFormat has one big advantage over String.format(), which is the "choice" format:

{0,choice,0#no|1#one|1<more than one}

And it could be nested too.

Regards,
Robert

Posted by Robert on November 09, 2016 at 05:25 PM CET #

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