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| * Copyright (C) 2010 , Yahoo! Inc. |
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| * |
| * File SELFMT.H |
| * |
| * Modification History: |
| * |
| * Date Name Description |
| * 11/11/09 kirtig Finished first cut of implementation. |
| ********************************************************************/ |
| |
| #ifndef SELFMT |
| #define SELFMT |
| |
| #include "unicode/messagepattern.h" |
| #include "unicode/numfmt.h" |
| #include "unicode/utypes.h" |
| |
| /** |
| * \file |
| * \brief C++ API: SelectFormat object |
| */ |
| |
| #if !UCONFIG_NO_FORMATTING |
| |
| U_NAMESPACE_BEGIN |
| |
| class MessageFormat; |
| |
| /** |
| * <p><code>SelectFormat</code> supports the creation of internationalized |
| * messages by selecting phrases based on keywords. The pattern specifies |
| * how to map keywords to phrases and provides a default phrase. The |
| * object provided to the format method is a string that's matched |
| * against the keywords. If there is a match, the corresponding phrase |
| * is selected; otherwise, the default phrase is used.</p> |
| * |
| * <h4>Using <code>SelectFormat</code> for Gender Agreement</h4> |
| * |
| * <p>Note: Typically, select formatting is done via <code>MessageFormat</code> |
| * with a <code>select</code> argument type, |
| * rather than using a stand-alone <code>SelectFormat</code>.</p> |
| * |
| * <p>The main use case for the select format is gender based inflection. |
| * When names or nouns are inserted into sentences, their gender can affect pronouns, |
| * verb forms, articles, and adjectives. Special care needs to be |
| * taken for the case where the gender cannot be determined. |
| * The impact varies between languages:</p> |
| * \htmlonly |
| * <ul> |
| * <li>English has three genders, and unknown gender is handled as a special |
| * case. Names use the gender of the named person (if known), nouns referring |
| * to people use natural gender, and inanimate objects are usually neutral. |
| * The gender only affects pronouns: "he", "she", "it", "they". |
| * |
| * <li>German differs from English in that the gender of nouns is rather |
| * arbitrary, even for nouns referring to people ("Mädchen", girl, is neutral). |
| * The gender affects pronouns ("er", "sie", "es"), articles ("der", "die", |
| * "das"), and adjective forms ("guter Mann", "gute Frau", "gutes Mädchen"). |
| * |
| * <li>French has only two genders; as in German the gender of nouns |
| * is rather arbitrary - for sun and moon, the genders |
| * are the opposite of those in German. The gender affects |
| * pronouns ("il", "elle"), articles ("le", "la"), |
| * adjective forms ("bon", "bonne"), and sometimes |
| * verb forms ("allé", "allée"). |
| * |
| * <li>Polish distinguishes five genders (or noun classes), |
| * human masculine, animate non-human masculine, inanimate masculine, |
| * feminine, and neuter. |
| * </ul> |
| * \endhtmlonly |
| * <p>Some other languages have noun classes that are not related to gender, |
| * but similar in grammatical use. |
| * Some African languages have around 20 noun classes.</p> |
| * |
| * <p><b>Note:</b>For the gender of a <i>person</i> in a given sentence, |
| * we usually need to distinguish only between female, male and other/unknown.</p> |
| * |
| * <p>To enable localizers to create sentence patterns that take their |
| * language's gender dependencies into consideration, software has to provide |
| * information about the gender associated with a noun or name to |
| * <code>MessageFormat</code>. |
| * Two main cases can be distinguished:</p> |
| * |
| * <ul> |
| * <li>For people, natural gender information should be maintained for each person. |
| * Keywords like "male", "female", "mixed" (for groups of people) |
| * and "unknown" could be used. |
| * |
| * <li>For nouns, grammatical gender information should be maintained for |
| * each noun and per language, e.g., in resource bundles. |
| * The keywords "masculine", "feminine", and "neuter" are commonly used, |
| * but some languages may require other keywords. |
| * </ul> |
| * |
| * <p>The resulting keyword is provided to <code>MessageFormat</code> as a |
| * parameter separate from the name or noun it's associated with. For example, |
| * to generate a message such as "Jean went to Paris", three separate arguments |
| * would be provided: The name of the person as argument 0, the gender of |
| * the person as argument 1, and the name of the city as argument 2. |
| * The sentence pattern for English, where the gender of the person has |
| * no impact on this simple sentence, would not refer to argument 1 at all:</p> |
| * |
| * <pre>{0} went to {2}.</pre> |
| * |
| * <p><b>Note:</b> The entire sentence should be included (and partially repeated) |
| * inside each phrase. Otherwise translators would have to be trained on how to |
| * move bits of the sentence in and out of the select argument of a message. |
| * (The examples below do not follow this recommendation!)</p> |
| * |
| * <p>The sentence pattern for French, where the gender of the person affects |
| * the form of the participle, uses a select format based on argument 1:</p> |
| * |
| * \htmlonly<pre>{0} est {1, select, female {allée} other {allé}} à {2}.</pre>\endhtmlonly |
| * |
| * <p>Patterns can be nested, so that it's possible to handle interactions of |
| * number and gender where necessary. For example, if the above sentence should |
| * allow for the names of several people to be inserted, the following sentence |
| * pattern can be used (with argument 0 the list of people's names, |
| * argument 1 the number of people, argument 2 their combined gender, and |
| * argument 3 the city name):</p> |
| * |
| * \htmlonly |
| * <pre>{0} {1, plural, |
| * one {est {2, select, female {allée} other {allé}}} |
| * other {sont {2, select, female {allées} other {allés}}} |
| * }à {3}.</pre> |
| * \endhtmlonly |
| * |
| * <h4>Patterns and Their Interpretation</h4> |
| * |
| * <p>The <code>SelectFormat</code> pattern string defines the phrase output |
| * for each user-defined keyword. |
| * The pattern is a sequence of (keyword, message) pairs. |
| * A keyword is a "pattern identifier": [^[[:Pattern_Syntax:][:Pattern_White_Space:]]]+</p> |
| * |
| * <p>Each message is a MessageFormat pattern string enclosed in {curly braces}.</p> |
| * |
| * <p>You always have to define a phrase for the default keyword |
| * <code>other</code>; this phrase is returned when the keyword |
| * provided to |
| * the <code>format</code> method matches no other keyword. |
| * If a pattern does not provide a phrase for <code>other</code>, the method |
| * it's provided to returns the error <code>U_DEFAULT_KEYWORD_MISSING</code>. |
| * <br> |
| * Pattern_White_Space between keywords and messages is ignored. |
| * Pattern_White_Space within a message is preserved and output.</p> |
| * |
| * <p><pre>Example: |
| * \htmlonly |
| * |
| * UErrorCode status = U_ZERO_ERROR; |
| * MessageFormat *msgFmt = new MessageFormat(UnicodeString("{0} est {1, select, female {allée} other {allé}} à Paris."), Locale("fr"), status); |
| * if (U_FAILURE(status)) { |
| * return; |
| * } |
| * FieldPosition ignore(FieldPosition::DONT_CARE); |
| * UnicodeString result; |
| * |
| * char* str1= "Kirti,female"; |
| * Formattable args1[] = {"Kirti","female"}; |
| * msgFmt->format(args1, 2, result, ignore, status); |
| * cout << "Input is " << str1 << " and result is: " << result << endl; |
| * delete msgFmt; |
| * |
| * \endhtmlonly |
| * </pre> |
| * </p> |
| * |
| * Produces the output:<br> |
| * \htmlonly |
| * <code>Kirti est allée à Paris.</code> |
| * \endhtmlonly |
| * |
| * @stable ICU 4.4 |
| */ |
| |
| class U_I18N_API SelectFormat : public Format { |
| public: |
| |
| /** |
| * Creates a new <code>SelectFormat</code> for a given pattern string. |
| * @param pattern the pattern for this <code>SelectFormat</code>. |
| * errors are returned to status if the pattern is invalid. |
| * @param status output param set to success/failure code on exit, which |
| * must not indicate a failure before the function call. |
| * @stable ICU 4.4 |
| */ |
| SelectFormat(const UnicodeString& pattern, UErrorCode& status); |
| |
| /** |
| * copy constructor. |
| * @stable ICU 4.4 |
| */ |
| SelectFormat(const SelectFormat& other); |
| |
| /** |
| * Destructor. |
| * @stable ICU 4.4 |
| */ |
| virtual ~SelectFormat(); |
| |
| /** |
| * Sets the pattern used by this select format. |
| * for the keyword rules. |
| * Patterns and their interpretation are specified in the class description. |
| * |
| * @param pattern the pattern for this select format |
| * errors are returned to status if the pattern is invalid. |
| * @param status output param set to success/failure code on exit, which |
| * must not indicate a failure before the function call. |
| * @stable ICU 4.4 |
| */ |
| void applyPattern(const UnicodeString& pattern, UErrorCode& status); |
| |
| |
| using Format::format; |
| |
| /** |
| * Selects the phrase for the given keyword |
| * |
| * @param keyword The keyword that is used to select an alternative. |
| * @param appendTo output parameter to receive result. |
| * result is appended to existing contents. |
| * @param pos On input: an alignment field, if desired. |
| * On output: the offsets of the alignment field. |
| * @param status output param set to success/failure code on exit, which |
| * must not indicate a failure before the function call. |
| * @return Reference to 'appendTo' parameter. |
| * @stable ICU 4.4 |
| */ |
| UnicodeString& format(const UnicodeString& keyword, |
| UnicodeString& appendTo, |
| FieldPosition& pos, |
| UErrorCode& status) const; |
| |
| /** |
| * Assignment operator |
| * |
| * @param other the SelectFormat object to copy from. |
| * @stable ICU 4.4 |
| */ |
| SelectFormat& operator=(const SelectFormat& other); |
| |
| /** |
| * Return true if another object is semantically equal to this one. |
| * |
| * @param other the SelectFormat object to be compared with. |
| * @return true if other is semantically equal to this. |
| * @stable ICU 4.4 |
| */ |
| virtual UBool operator==(const Format& other) const; |
| |
| /** |
| * Return true if another object is semantically unequal to this one. |
| * |
| * @param other the SelectFormat object to be compared with. |
| * @return true if other is semantically unequal to this. |
| * @stable ICU 4.4 |
| */ |
| virtual UBool operator!=(const Format& other) const; |
| |
| /** |
| * Clones this Format object polymorphically. The caller owns the |
| * result and should delete it when done. |
| * @stable ICU 4.4 |
| */ |
| virtual Format* clone(void) const; |
| |
| /** |
| * Format an object to produce a string. |
| * This method handles keyword strings. |
| * If the Formattable object is not a <code>UnicodeString</code>, |
| * then it returns a failing UErrorCode. |
| * |
| * @param obj A keyword string that is used to select an alternative. |
| * @param appendTo output parameter to receive result. |
| * Result is appended to existing contents. |
| * @param pos On input: an alignment field, if desired. |
| * On output: the offsets of the alignment field. |
| * @param status output param filled with success/failure status. |
| * @return Reference to 'appendTo' parameter. |
| * @stable ICU 4.4 |
| */ |
| UnicodeString& format(const Formattable& obj, |
| UnicodeString& appendTo, |
| FieldPosition& pos, |
| UErrorCode& status) const; |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns the pattern from applyPattern() or constructor. |
| * |
| * @param appendTo output parameter to receive result. |
| * Result is appended to existing contents. |
| * @return the UnicodeString with inserted pattern. |
| * @stable ICU 4.4 |
| */ |
| UnicodeString& toPattern(UnicodeString& appendTo); |
| |
| /** |
| * This method is not yet supported by <code>SelectFormat</code>. |
| * <P> |
| * Before calling, set parse_pos.index to the offset you want to start |
| * parsing at in the source. After calling, parse_pos.index is the end of |
| * the text you parsed. If error occurs, index is unchanged. |
| * <P> |
| * When parsing, leading whitespace is discarded (with a successful parse), |
| * while trailing whitespace is left as is. |
| * <P> |
| * See Format::parseObject() for more. |
| * |
| * @param source The string to be parsed into an object. |
| * @param result Formattable to be set to the parse result. |
| * If parse fails, return contents are undefined. |
| * @param parse_pos The position to start parsing at. Upon return |
| * this param is set to the position after the |
| * last character successfully parsed. If the |
| * source is not parsed successfully, this param |
| * will remain unchanged. |
| * @stable ICU 4.4 |
| */ |
| virtual void parseObject(const UnicodeString& source, |
| Formattable& result, |
| ParsePosition& parse_pos) const; |
| |
| /** |
| * ICU "poor man's RTTI", returns a UClassID for this class. |
| * @stable ICU 4.4 |
| */ |
| static UClassID U_EXPORT2 getStaticClassID(void); |
| |
| /** |
| * ICU "poor man's RTTI", returns a UClassID for the actual class. |
| * @stable ICU 4.4 |
| */ |
| virtual UClassID getDynamicClassID() const; |
| |
| private: |
| friend class MessageFormat; |
| |
| SelectFormat(); // default constructor not implemented. |
| |
| /** |
| * Finds the SelectFormat sub-message for the given keyword, or the "other" sub-message. |
| * @param pattern A MessagePattern. |
| * @param partIndex the index of the first SelectFormat argument style part. |
| * @param keyword a keyword to be matched to one of the SelectFormat argument's keywords. |
| * @param ec Error code. |
| * @return the sub-message start part index. |
| */ |
| static int32_t findSubMessage(const MessagePattern& pattern, int32_t partIndex, |
| const UnicodeString& keyword, UErrorCode& ec); |
| |
| MessagePattern msgPattern; |
| }; |
| |
| U_NAMESPACE_END |
| |
| #endif /* #if !UCONFIG_NO_FORMATTING */ |
| |
| #endif // _SELFMT |
| //eof |
