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1 /*
2 *******************************************************************************
3 * Copyright (C) 2007-2010, International Business Machines Corporation and
4 * others. All Rights Reserved.
5 *******************************************************************************
6 *
7 
8 * File PLURFMT.H
9 *
10 * Modification History:*
11 *   Date        Name        Description
12 *
13 ********************************************************************************
14 */
15 
16 #ifndef PLURFMT
17 #define PLURFMT
18 
19 #include "unicode/utypes.h"
20 
21 /**
22  * \file
23  * \brief C++ API: PluralFormat object
24  */
25 
26 #if !UCONFIG_NO_FORMATTING
27 
28 #include "unicode/numfmt.h"
29 #include "unicode/plurrule.h"
30 
31 U_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
32 
33 class Hashtable;
34 
35 /**
36  * <p>
37  * <code>PluralFormat</code> supports the creation of internationalized
38  * messages with plural inflection. It is based on <i>plural
39  * selection</i>, i.e. the caller specifies messages for each
40  * plural case that can appear in the users language and the
41  * <code>PluralFormat</code> selects the appropriate message based on
42  * the number.
43  * </p>
44  * <h4>The Problem of Plural Forms in Internationalized Messages</h4>
45  * <p>
46  * Different languages have different ways to inflect
47  * plurals. Creating internationalized messages that include plural
48  * forms is only feasible when the framework is able to handle plural
49  * forms of <i>all</i> languages correctly. <code>ChoiceFormat</code>
50  * doesn't handle this well, because it attaches a number interval to
51  * each message and selects the message whose interval contains a
52  * given number. This can only handle a finite number of
53  * intervals. But in some languages, like Polish, one plural case
54  * applies to infinitely many intervals (e.g., paucal applies to
55  * numbers ending with 2, 3, or 4 except those ending with 12, 13, or
56  * 14). Thus <code>ChoiceFormat</code> is not adequate.
57  * </p><p>
58  * <code>PluralFormat</code> deals with this by breaking the problem
59  * into two parts:
60  * <ul>
61  * <li>It uses <code>PluralRules</code> that can define more complex
62  *     conditions for a plural case than just a single interval. These plural
63  *     rules define both what plural cases exist in a language, and to
64  *     which numbers these cases apply.
65  * <li>It provides predefined plural rules for many locales. Thus, the programmer
66  *     need not worry about the plural cases of a language. On the flip side,
67  *     the localizer does not have to specify the plural cases; he can simply
68  *     use the predefined keywords. The whole plural formatting of messages can
69  *     be done using localized patterns from resource bundles. For predefined plural
70  *     rules, see CLDR <i>Language Plural Rules</i> page at
71  *    http://unicode.org/repos/cldr-tmp/trunk/diff/supplemental/language_plural_rules.html
72  * </ul>
73  * </p>
74  * <h4>Usage of <code>PluralFormat</code></h4>
75  * <p>
76  * This discussion assumes that you use <code>PluralFormat</code> with
77  * a predefined set of plural rules. You can create one using one of
78  * the constructors that takes a <code>locale</code> object. To
79  * specify the message pattern, you can either pass it to the
80  * constructor or set it explicitly using the
81  * <code>applyPattern()</code> method. The <code>format()</code>
82  * method takes a number object and selects the message of the
83  * matching plural case. This message will be returned.
84  * </p>
85  * <h5>Patterns and Their Interpretation</h5>
86  * <p>
87  * The pattern text defines the message output for each plural case of the
88  * used locale. The pattern is a sequence of
89  * <code><i>caseKeyword</i>{<i>message</i>}</code> clauses, separated by white
90  * space characters. Each clause assigns the message <code><i>message</i></code>
91  * to the plural case identified by <code><i>caseKeyword</i></code>.
92  * </p><p>
93  * There are 6 predefined casekeyword in ICU - 'zero', 'one', 'two', 'few', 'many' and
94  * 'other'. You always have to define a message text for the default plural case
95  * "<code>other</code>" which is contained in every rule set. If the plural
96  * rules of the <code>PluralFormat</code> object do not contain a plural case
97  * identified by <code><i>caseKeyword</i></code>, U_DEFAULT_KEYWORD_MISSING
98  * will be set to status.
99  * If you do not specify a message text for a particular plural case, the
100  * message text of the plural case "<code>other</code>" gets assigned to this
101  * plural case. If you specify more than one message for the same plural case,
102  * U_DUPLICATE_KEYWORD will be set to status.
103  * <br>
104  * Spaces between <code><i>caseKeyword</i></code> and
105  * <code><i>message</i></code>  will be ignored; spaces within
106  * <code><i>message</i></code> will be preserved.
107  * </p><p>
108  * The message text for a particular plural case may contain other message
109  * format patterns. <code>PluralFormat</code> preserves these so that you
110  * can use the strings produced by <code>PluralFormat</code> with other
111  * formatters. If you are using <code>PluralFormat</code> inside a
112  * <code>MessageFormat</code> pattern, <code>MessageFormat</code> will
113  * automatically evaluate the resulting format pattern.<br>
114  * Thus, curly braces (<code>{</code>, <code>}</code>) are <i>only</i> allowed
115  * in message texts to define a nested format pattern.<br>
116  * The pound sign (<code>#</code>) will be interpreted as the number placeholder
117  * in the message text, if it is not contained in curly braces (to preserve
118  * <code>NumberFormat</code> patterns). <code>PluralFormat</code> will
119  * replace each of those pound signs by the number passed to the
120  * <code>format()</code> method. It will be formatted using a
121  * <code>NumberFormat</code> for the <code>PluralFormat</code>'s locale. If you
122  * need special number formatting, you have to explicitly specify a
123  * <code>NumberFormat</code> for the <code>PluralFormat</code> to use.
124  * </p>
125  * Example
126  * <pre>
127  * \code
128  * UErrorCode status = U_ZERO_ERROR;
129  * MessageFormat* msgFmt = new MessageFormat(UnicodeString("{0, plural,
130  *   one{{0, number, C''est #,##0.0#  fichier}} other {Ce sont # fichiers}} dans la liste."),
131  *   Locale("fr"), status);
132  * if (U_FAILURE(status)) {
133  *     return;
134  * }
135  * Formattable args1[] = {(int32_t)0};
136  * Formattable args2[] = {(int32_t)3};
137  * FieldPosition ignore(FieldPosition::DONT_CARE);
138  * UnicodeString result;
139  * msgFmt->format(args1, 1, result, ignore, status);
140  * cout << result << endl;
141  * result.remove();
142  * msgFmt->format(args2, 1, result, ignore, status);
143  * cout << result << endl;
144  * \endcode
145  * </pre>
146  * Produces the output:<br>
147  * <code>C'est 0,0 fichier dans la liste.</code><br>
148  * <code>Ce sont 3 fichiers dans la liste.</code>
149  * <p>
150  * <strong>Note:</strong><br>
151  *   Currently <code>PluralFormat</code>
152  *   does not make use of quotes like <code>MessageFormat</code>.
153  *   If you use plural format strings with <code>MessageFormat</code> and want
154  *   to use a quote sign <code>'</code>, you have to write <code>''</code>.
155  *   <code>MessageFormat</code> unquotes this pattern and  passes the unquoted
156  *   pattern to <code>PluralFormat</code>. It's a bit trickier if you use
157  *   nested formats that do quoting. In the example above, we wanted to insert
158  *   <code>'</code> in the number format pattern. Since
159  *   <code>NumberFormat</code> supports quotes, we had to insert
160  *   <code>''</code>. But since <code>MessageFormat</code> unquotes the
161  *   pattern before it gets passed to <code>PluralFormat</code>, we have to
162  *   double these quotes, i.e. write <code>''''</code>.
163  * </p>
164  * <h4>Defining Custom Plural Rules</h4>
165  * <p>If you need to use <code>PluralFormat</code> with custom rules, you can
166  * create a <code>PluralRules</code> object and pass it to
167  * <code>PluralFormat</code>'s constructor. If you also specify a locale in this
168  * constructor, this locale will be used to format the number in the message
169  * texts.
170  * </p><p>
171  * For more information about <code>PluralRules</code>, see
172  * {@link PluralRules}.
173  * </p>
174  *
175  * ported from Java
176  * @stable ICU 4.0
177  */
178 
179 class U_I18N_API PluralFormat : public Format {
180 public:
181 
182     /**
183      * Creates a new <code>PluralFormat</code> for the default locale.
184      * This locale will be used to get the set of plural rules and for standard
185      * number formatting.
186      * @param status  output param set to success/failure code on exit, which
187      *                must not indicate a failure before the function call.
188      * @stable ICU 4.0
189      */
190     PluralFormat(UErrorCode& status);
191 
192     /**
193      * Creates a new <code>PluralFormat</code> for a given locale.
194      * @param locale the <code>PluralFormat</code> will be configured with
195      *               rules for this locale. This locale will also be used for
196      *               standard number formatting.
197      * @param status output param set to success/failure code on exit, which
198      *               must not indicate a failure before the function call.
199      * @stable ICU 4.0
200      */
201     PluralFormat(const Locale& locale, UErrorCode& status);
202 
203     /**
204      * Creates a new <code>PluralFormat</code> for a given set of rules.
205      * The standard number formatting will be done using the default locale.
206      * @param rules   defines the behavior of the <code>PluralFormat</code>
207      *                object.
208      * @param status  output param set to success/failure code on exit, which
209      *                must not indicate a failure before the function call.
210      * @stable ICU 4.0
211      */
212     PluralFormat(const PluralRules& rules, UErrorCode& status);
213 
214     /**
215      * Creates a new <code>PluralFormat</code> for a given set of rules.
216      * The standard number formatting will be done using the given locale.
217      * @param locale  the default number formatting will be done using this
218      *                locale.
219      * @param rules   defines the behavior of the <code>PluralFormat</code>
220      *                object.
221      * @param status  output param set to success/failure code on exit, which
222      *                must not indicate a failure before the function call.
223      * @stable ICU 4.0
224      */
225     PluralFormat(const Locale& locale, const PluralRules& rules, UErrorCode& status);
226 
227     /**
228      * Creates a new <code>PluralFormat</code> for a given pattern string.
229      * The default locale will be used to get the set of plural rules and for
230      * standard number formatting.
231      * @param  pattern the pattern for this <code>PluralFormat</code>.
232      *                 errors are returned to status if the pattern is invalid.
233      * @param status   output param set to success/failure code on exit, which
234      *                 must not indicate a failure before the function call.
235      * @stable ICU 4.0
236      */
237     PluralFormat(const UnicodeString& pattern, UErrorCode& status);
238 
239     /**
240      * Creates a new <code>PluralFormat</code> for a given pattern string and
241      * locale.
242      * The locale will be used to get the set of plural rules and for
243      * standard number formatting.
244      * @param locale   the <code>PluralFormat</code> will be configured with
245      *                 rules for this locale. This locale will also be used for
246      *                 standard number formatting.
247      * @param pattern  the pattern for this <code>PluralFormat</code>.
248      *                 errors are returned to status if the pattern is invalid.
249      * @param status   output param set to success/failure code on exit, which
250      *                 must not indicate a failure before the function call.
251      * @stable ICU 4.0
252      */
253     PluralFormat(const Locale& locale, const UnicodeString& pattern, UErrorCode& status);
254 
255     /**
256      * Creates a new <code>PluralFormat</code> for a given set of rules, a
257      * pattern and a locale.
258      * @param rules    defines the behavior of the <code>PluralFormat</code>
259      *                 object.
260      * @param pattern  the pattern for this <code>PluralFormat</code>.
261      *                 errors are returned to status if the pattern is invalid.
262      * @param status   output param set to success/failure code on exit, which
263      *                 must not indicate a failure before the function call.
264      * @stable ICU 4.0
265      */
266     PluralFormat(const PluralRules& rules,
267                  const UnicodeString& pattern,
268                  UErrorCode& status);
269 
270     /**
271      * Creates a new <code>PluralFormat</code> for a given set of rules, a
272      * pattern and a locale.
273      * @param locale  the <code>PluralFormat</code> will be configured with
274      *                rules for this locale. This locale will also be used for
275      *                standard number formatting.
276      * @param rules   defines the behavior of the <code>PluralFormat</code>
277      *                object.
278      * @param pattern the pattern for this <code>PluralFormat</code>.
279      *                errors are returned to status if the pattern is invalid.
280      * @param status  output param set to success/failure code on exit, which
281      *                must not indicate a failure before the function call.
282      * @stable ICU 4.0
283      */
284     PluralFormat(const Locale& locale,
285                  const PluralRules& rules,
286                  const UnicodeString& pattern,
287                  UErrorCode& status);
288 
289     /**
290       * copy constructor.
291       * @stable ICU 4.0
292       */
293     PluralFormat(const PluralFormat& other);
294 
295     /**
296      * Destructor.
297      * @stable ICU 4.0
298      */
299     virtual ~PluralFormat();
300 
301     /**
302      * Sets the pattern used by this plural format.
303      * The method parses the pattern and creates a map of format strings
304      * for the plural rules.
305      * Patterns and their interpretation are specified in the class description.
306      *
307      * @param pattern the pattern for this plural format
308      *                errors are returned to status if the pattern is invalid.
309      * @param status  output param set to success/failure code on exit, which
310      *                must not indicate a failure before the function call.
311      * @stable ICU 4.0
312      */
313     void applyPattern(const UnicodeString& pattern, UErrorCode& status);
314 
315 
316     using Format::format;
317 
318     /**
319      * Formats a plural message for a given number.
320      *
321      * @param number  a number for which the plural message should be formatted
322      *                for. If no pattern has been applied to this
323      *                <code>PluralFormat</code> object yet, the formatted number
324      *                will be returned.
325      * @param status  output param set to success/failure code on exit, which
326      *                must not indicate a failure before the function call.
327      * @return        the string containing the formatted plural message.
328      * @stable ICU 4.0
329      */
330     UnicodeString format(int32_t number, UErrorCode& status) const;
331 
332     /**
333      * Formats a plural message for a given number.
334      *
335      * @param number  a number for which the plural message should be formatted
336      *                for. If no pattern has been applied to this
337      *                PluralFormat object yet, the formatted number
338      *                will be returned.
339      * @param status  output param set to success or failure code on exit, which
340      *                must not indicate a failure before the function call.
341      * @return        the string containing the formatted plural message.
342      * @stable ICU 4.0
343      */
344     UnicodeString format(double number, UErrorCode& status) const;
345 
346     /**
347      * Formats a plural message for a given number.
348      *
349      * @param number   a number for which the plural message should be formatted
350      *                 for. If no pattern has been applied to this
351      *                 <code>PluralFormat</code> object yet, the formatted number
352      *                 will be returned.
353      * @param appendTo output parameter to receive result.
354      *                 result is appended to existing contents.
355      * @param pos      On input: an alignment field, if desired.
356      *                 On output: the offsets of the alignment field.
357      * @param status   output param set to success/failure code on exit, which
358      *                 must not indicate a failure before the function call.
359      * @return         the string containing the formatted plural message.
360      * @stable ICU 4.0
361      */
362     UnicodeString& format(int32_t number,
363                           UnicodeString& appendTo,
364                           FieldPosition& pos,
365                           UErrorCode& status) const;
366 
367     /**
368      * Formats a plural message for a given number.
369      *
370      * @param number   a number for which the plural message should be formatted
371      *                 for. If no pattern has been applied to this
372      *                 PluralFormat object yet, the formatted number
373      *                 will be returned.
374      * @param appendTo output parameter to receive result.
375      *                 result is appended to existing contents.
376      * @param pos      On input: an alignment field, if desired.
377      *                 On output: the offsets of the alignment field.
378      * @param status   output param set to success/failure code on exit, which
379      *                 must not indicate a failure before the function call.
380      * @return         the string containing the formatted plural message.
381      * @stable ICU 4.0
382      */
383     UnicodeString& format(double number,
384                           UnicodeString& appendTo,
385                           FieldPosition& pos,
386                           UErrorCode& status) const;
387 
388     /**
389      * Sets the locale used by this <code>PluraFormat</code> object.
390      * Note: Calling this method resets this <code>PluraFormat</code> object,
391      *     i.e., a pattern that was applied previously will be removed,
392      *     and the NumberFormat is set to the default number format for
393      *     the locale.  The resulting format behaves the same as one
394      *     constructed from {@link #PluralFormat(const Locale& locale, UErrorCode& status)}.
395      * @param locale  the <code>locale</code> to use to configure the formatter.
396      * @param status  output param set to success/failure code on exit, which
397      *                must not indicate a failure before the function call.
398      * @stable ICU 4.0
399      */
400     void setLocale(const Locale& locale, UErrorCode& status);
401 
402     /**
403       * Sets the number format used by this formatter.  You only need to
404       * call this if you want a different number format than the default
405       * formatter for the locale.
406       * @param format  the number format to use.
407       * @param status  output param set to success/failure code on exit, which
408       *                must not indicate a failure before the function call.
409       * @stable ICU 4.0
410       */
411     void setNumberFormat(const NumberFormat* format, UErrorCode& status);
412 
413     /**
414        * Assignment operator
415        *
416        * @param other    the PluralFormat object to copy from.
417        * @stable ICU 4.0
418        */
419     PluralFormat& operator=(const PluralFormat& other);
420 
421     /**
422       * Return true if another object is semantically equal to this one.
423       *
424       * @param other    the PluralFormat object to be compared with.
425       * @return         true if other is semantically equal to this.
426       * @stable ICU 4.0
427       */
428     virtual UBool operator==(const Format& other) const;
429 
430     /**
431      * Return true if another object is semantically unequal to this one.
432      *
433      * @param other    the PluralFormat object to be compared with.
434      * @return         true if other is semantically unequal to this.
435      * @stable ICU 4.0
436      */
437     virtual UBool operator!=(const Format& other) const;
438 
439     /**
440      * Clones this Format object polymorphically.  The caller owns the
441      * result and should delete it when done.
442      * @stable ICU 4.0
443      */
444     virtual Format* clone(void) const;
445 
446     /**
447     * Redeclared Format method.
448     *
449     * @param obj       The object to be formatted into a string.
450     * @param appendTo  output parameter to receive result.
451     *                  Result is appended to existing contents.
452     * @param pos       On input: an alignment field, if desired.
453     *                  On output: the offsets of the alignment field.
454     * @param status    output param filled with success/failure status.
455     * @return          Reference to 'appendTo' parameter.
456     * @stable ICU 4.0
457     */
458    UnicodeString& format(const Formattable& obj,
459                          UnicodeString& appendTo,
460                          FieldPosition& pos,
461                          UErrorCode& status) const;
462 
463    /**
464     * Returns the pattern from applyPattern() or constructor().
465     *
466     * @param  appendTo  output parameter to receive result.
467      *                  Result is appended to existing contents.
468     * @return the UnicodeString with inserted pattern.
469     * @stable ICU 4.0
470     */
471    UnicodeString& toPattern(UnicodeString& appendTo);
472 
473    /**
474     * This method is not yet supported by <code>PluralFormat</code>.
475     * <P>
476     * Before calling, set parse_pos.index to the offset you want to start
477     * parsing at in the source. After calling, parse_pos.index is the end of
478     * the text you parsed. If error occurs, index is unchanged.
479     * <P>
480     * When parsing, leading whitespace is discarded (with a successful parse),
481     * while trailing whitespace is left as is.
482     * <P>
483     * See Format::parseObject() for more.
484     *
485     * @param source    The string to be parsed into an object.
486     * @param result    Formattable to be set to the parse result.
487     *                  If parse fails, return contents are undefined.
488     * @param parse_pos The position to start parsing at. Upon return
489     *                  this param is set to the position after the
490     *                  last character successfully parsed. If the
491     *                  source is not parsed successfully, this param
492     *                  will remain unchanged.
493     * @stable ICU 4.0
494     */
495    virtual void parseObject(const UnicodeString& source,
496                             Formattable& result,
497                             ParsePosition& parse_pos) const;
498 
499     /**
500      * ICU "poor man's RTTI", returns a UClassID for this class.
501      *
502      * @stable ICU 4.0
503      *
504      */
505     static UClassID U_EXPORT2 getStaticClassID(void);
506 
507     /**
508      * ICU "poor man's RTTI", returns a UClassID for the actual class.
509      *
510      * @stable ICU 4.0
511      */
512      virtual UClassID getDynamicClassID() const;
513 
514 private:
515     typedef enum fmtToken {
516         none,
517         tLetter,
518         tNumber,
519         tSpace,
520         tNumberSign,
521         tLeftBrace,
522         tRightBrace
523     }fmtToken;
524 
525     Locale  locale;
526     PluralRules* pluralRules;
527     UnicodeString pattern;
528     Hashtable  *fParsedValuesHash;
529     NumberFormat*  numberFormat;
530     NumberFormat*  replacedNumberFormat;
531 
532     PluralFormat();   // default constructor not implemented
533     void init(const PluralRules* rules, const Locale& curlocale, UErrorCode& status);
534     UBool inRange(UChar ch, fmtToken& type);
535     UBool checkSufficientDefinition();
536     void parsingFailure();
537     UnicodeString insertFormattedNumber(double number,
538                                         UnicodeString& message,
539                                         UnicodeString& appendTo,
540                                         FieldPosition& pos) const;
541     void copyHashtable(Hashtable *other, UErrorCode& status);
542 };
543 
544 U_NAMESPACE_END
545 
546 #endif /* #if !UCONFIG_NO_FORMATTING */
547 
548 #endif // _PLURFMT
549 //eof
550