net.sf.mmm.util.version.api

Interface VersionIdentifierFormatter

All Superinterfaces:

Formatter<VersionIdentifier>

All Known Implementing Classes:

ComposedVersionIdentifierFormatter, DefaultVersionIdentifierFormatter

public interface VersionIdentifierFormatter
extends Formatter<VersionIdentifier>

This is the interface used to format a VersionIdentifier.

Since:

3.0.0

Author:

Joerg Hohwiller (hohwille at users.sourceforge.net)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	format(VersionIdentifier value) This method formats the given value.

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.mmm.util.lang.api.Formatter

format

Method Detail

format

String format(VersionIdentifier value)

Description copied from interface: Formatter

This method formats the given value.
This is a shorthand of the following code:

 StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder();
 format(value, buffer);
 return buffer.toString();
 

Specified by:

format in interface Formatter<VersionIdentifier>

Parameters:

value - is the value to format. May be null.

Returns:

the formatted value. If the given value is null, a legal implementation will return "null" or "".