[LANG-1236] Add StopWatch#getTime with String Format Argument

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: lang.time.*
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Nick Manley
• Created: 21/May/16 20:11
• Updated: 10/Jun/16 04:43
• Resolved: 10/Jun/16 04:41

Description

Add a version of the StopWatch#getTime method which takes a String to format the time in the desired format.

StopWatch watch= StopWatch.createStarted();
// sleep for 1 hour, 19 minutes, 45.554 seconds
try {Thread.sleep(4785554);} catch (final InterruptedException ex) {}
watch.stop();
System.out.println(watch.getTime("HH:mm:ss.SSS");
// prints: 1:19:45.554

I have a patch ready, but I wasn't sure if this kind of thing should be a part of the getTime method or if toString should be overloaded to take a format argument. Either way seems okay to me. I put it on getTime, but if there are disagreements about that, I would be okay with putting it in toString instead.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #153