String Formatter in GWT

Question

How do I format my string in GWT?

I made a method

  Formatter format = new Formatter();
    int matches = 0;
    Formatter formattedString = format.forma         


        

Answer 1

As mentionned above, there is GWT formatters for numbers and dates : NumberFormat and DateTimeFormat. Still, I needed a solution for the well-know String.format(...) case. I end up with this solution, I don't know if it's wrong for performance, but it's visually clean. I'd be glad to hear any comment on it, or about other solution.

My String formatter :

public class Strings {

    public static String format(final String format, final Object... args) {
        String retVal = format;
        for (final Object current : args) {
            retVal = retVal.replaceFirst("[%][s]", current.toString());
        }
        return retVal;
    }

}

and the JUTest if one want to re-use this :

public class StringsTest {

    @Test
    public final void testFormat() {
        this.assertFormat("Some test here  %s.", 54);
        this.assertFormat("Some test here %s and there %s, and test [%s].  sfsfs !!!", 54, 59, "HAHA");

    }

    private void assertFormat(final String format, final Object... args) {
        Assert.assertEquals("Formatting is not working", String.format(format, args), Strings.format(format, args));
    }

}