Package de.iip_ecosphere.platform.connectors.formatter

Class FormatterUtils

java.lang.Object

de.iip_ecosphere.platform.connectors.formatter.FormatterUtils

public class FormatterUtils
extends Object

Output formatter utility methods.

Author:

Holger Eichelberger, SSE

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
FormatterUtils()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static OutputFormatter<?>	createInstance(ClassLoader loader, String className, String charset)	Convenience method for creating (custom) formatter instances.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

FormatterUtils

public FormatterUtils()

Method Details

createInstance

public static OutputFormatter<?> createInstance(ClassLoader loader,
 String className,
 String charset)

Convenience method for creating (custom) formatter instances.

Parameters:

loader - the class loader to load the class with

className - the name of the formatter class (must implement OutputFormatter and provide a single String constructor taking the charset encoding or as fallback a no-argument constructor)

charset - the name of the charset encoding

Returns:

the formatter instance (an instance of DummyFormatter if the parser cannot be found/initialized)