java.util.spi
Class CurrencyNameProvider

java.lang.Object
  java.util.spi.LocaleServiceProvider
      java.util.spi.CurrencyNameProvider

public abstract class CurrencyNameProvider
extends LocaleServiceProvider

An abstract class for service providers that provide localized currency symbols for the Currency class. Note that currency symbols are considered names when determining behaviors described in the LocaleServiceProvider specification.

Since:

1.6

Constructor Summary

protected

CurrencyNameProvider() Sole constructor.

Method Summary

abstract String

getSymbol(String currencyCode, Locale locale) Gets the symbol of the given currency code for the specified locale.

Methods inherited from class java.util.spi.LocaleServiceProvider

getAvailableLocales

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

CurrencyNameProvider

protected CurrencyNameProvider()

Sole constructor. (For invocation by subclass constructors, typically implicit.)

Method Detail

getSymbol

public abstract String getSymbol(String currencyCode,
                                 Locale locale)

Gets the symbol of the given currency code for the specified locale. For example, for "USD" (US Dollar), the symbol is "$" if the specified locale is the US, while for other locales it may be "US$". If no symbol can be determined, null should be returned.

Parameters:

currencyCode - the ISO 4217 currency code, which consists of three upper-case letters between 'A' (U+0041) and 'Z' (U+005A)

locale - the desired locale

Returns:

the symbol of the given currency code for the specified locale, or null if the symbol is not available for the locale

Throws:

NullPointerException - if currencyCode or locale is null

IllegalArgumentException - if currencyCode is not in the form of three upper-case letters, or locale isn't one of the locales returned from getAvailableLocales().

See Also:

Currency.getSymbol(java.util.Locale)