com.helger.commons.text

Interface IHasText

All Superinterfaces:

Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

IHasTextWithArgs, IMultilingualText, IMutableMultilingualText

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractHasText, AbstractMapBasedMultilingualText, AbstractReadOnlyMapBasedMultilingualText, ConstantHasText, ConstantHasTextWithArgs, HasTextWithArgs, MultilingualText, ReadOnlyMultilingualText, ResourceBundleTextProvider

Functional Interface:

This is a functional interface and can therefore be used as the assignment target for a lambda expression or method reference.

@FunctionalInterface
public interface IHasText
extends Serializable

Basic interface for object providing multilingual texts without arguments. See also IHasTextWithArgs for a derived interface with argument handling.

Author:

Philip Helger

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
default IHasDisplayText	getAsHasDisplayText()
static Comparator<IHasText>	getComparatorCollating(Locale aContentLocale, Locale aSortLocale)
String	getText(Locale aContentLocale) Get the text specific for the passed locale.

Method Detail

getText

@Nullable
String getText(@Nonnull
                          Locale aContentLocale)

Get the text specific for the passed locale. The implementation class MAY add locale-generalisation when resolving the text ("de_DE" => "de" => default).

Parameters:

aContentLocale - The locale to use. May not be null.

Returns:

null if no text for the given locale was found.

getAsHasDisplayText

@Nonnull
default IHasDisplayText getAsHasDisplayText()

Returns:

this as an instance of IHasDisplayText.

Since:

8.5.2

getComparatorCollating

@Nonnull
static Comparator<IHasText> getComparatorCollating(@Nonnull
                                                             Locale aContentLocale,
                                                             @Nullable
                                                             Locale aSortLocale)