[TEXT-95] Convenience formatting method in ExtendedMethodFormat

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.x
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Arend v. Reinersdorff
• Created: 24/Jun/17 09:04
• Updated: 08/Dec/17 19:04

Description

It would be nice to have a simple formatting method in ExtendedMethodFormat:

String format(Object... arguments)

Intended use:

ExtendedMessageFormat messageFormat = new ExtendedMessageFormat("{0}, {1}", Locale.ROOT);

String output = messageFormat.format("Hello", "World");

The current formatting method of (Extended)MethodFormat is quite inconvenient for simple use cases:

ExtendedMessageFormat messageFormat = new ExtendedMessageFormat("{0}, {1}", Locale.ROOT);

Object[] arguments = { "Hello", "World" };
StringBuffer outputBuffer = messageFormat.format(arguments, new StringBuffer(), null);
String output = outputBuffer.toString();