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1 /******************************************************************** | |
2 * COPYRIGHT: | |
3 * Copyright (c) 1997-2010, International Business Machines Corporation and | |
4 * others. All Rights Reserved. | |
5 * Copyright (C) 2010 , Yahoo! Inc. | |
6 ******************************************************************** | |
7 * | |
8 * File SELFMT.H | |
9 * | |
10 * Modification History: | |
11 * | |
12 * Date Name Description | |
13 * 11/11/09 kirtig Finished first cut of implementation. | |
14 ********************************************************************/ | |
15 | |
16 #ifndef SELFMT | |
17 #define SELFMT | |
18 | |
19 #include "unicode/utypes.h" | |
20 #include "unicode/numfmt.h" | |
21 | |
22 /** | |
23 * \file | |
24 * \brief C++ API: SelectFormat object | |
25 */ | |
26 | |
27 #if !UCONFIG_NO_FORMATTING | |
28 | |
29 U_NAMESPACE_BEGIN | |
30 | |
31 class Hashtable; | |
32 | |
33 /** | |
34 * <p><code>SelectFormat</code> supports the creation of internationalized | |
35 * messages by selecting phrases based on keywords. The pattern specifies | |
36 * how to map keywords to phrases and provides a default phrase. The | |
37 * object provided to the format method is a string that's matched | |
38 * against the keywords. If there is a match, the corresponding phrase | |
39 * is selected; otherwise, the default phrase is used.</p> | |
40 * | |
41 * <h4>Using <code>SelectFormat</code> for Gender Agreement</h4> | |
42 * | |
43 * <p>The main use case for the select format is gender based inflection. | |
44 * When names or nouns are inserted into sentences, their gender can affect pr
onouns, | |
45 * verb forms, articles, and adjectives. Special care needs to be | |
46 * taken for the case where the gender cannot be determined. | |
47 * The impact varies between languages:</p> | |
48 * \htmlonly | |
49 * <ul> | |
50 * <li>English has three genders, and unknown gender is handled as a special | |
51 * case. Names use the gender of the named person (if known), nouns referring | |
52 * to people use natural gender, and inanimate objects are usually neutral. | |
53 * The gender only affects pronouns: "he", "she", "it", "they". | |
54 * | |
55 * <li>German differs from English in that the gender of nouns is rather | |
56 * arbitrary, even for nouns referring to people ("Mädchen", girl, is n
eutral). | |
57 * The gender affects pronouns ("er", "sie", "es"), articles ("der", "die", | |
58 * "das"), and adjective forms ("guter Mann", "gute Frau", "gutes Mädch
en"). | |
59 * | |
60 * <li>French has only two genders; as in German the gender of nouns | |
61 * is rather arbitrary - for sun and moon, the genders | |
62 * are the opposite of those in German. The gender affects | |
63 * pronouns ("il", "elle"), articles ("le", "la"), | |
64 * adjective forms ("bon", "bonne"), and sometimes | |
65 * verb forms ("allé", "allée"). | |
66 * | |
67 * <li>Polish distinguishes five genders (or noun classes), | |
68 * human masculine, animate non-human masculine, inanimate masculine, | |
69 * feminine, and neuter. | |
70 * </ul> | |
71 * \endhtmlonly | |
72 * <p>Some other languages have noun classes that are not related to gender, | |
73 * but similar in grammatical use. | |
74 * Some African languages have around 20 noun classes.</p> | |
75 * | |
76 * <p>To enable localizers to create sentence patterns that take their | |
77 * language's gender dependencies into consideration, software has to provide | |
78 * information about the gender associated with a noun or name to | |
79 * <code>MessageFormat</code>. | |
80 * Two main cases can be distinguished:</p> | |
81 * | |
82 * <ul> | |
83 * <li>For people, natural gender information should be maintained for each pe
rson. | |
84 * The keywords "male", "female", "mixed" (for groups of people) | |
85 * and "unknown" are used. | |
86 * | |
87 * <li>For nouns, grammatical gender information should be maintained for | |
88 * each noun and per language, e.g., in resource bundles. | |
89 * The keywords "masculine", "feminine", and "neuter" are commonly used, | |
90 * but some languages may require other keywords. | |
91 * </ul> | |
92 * | |
93 * <p>The resulting keyword is provided to <code>MessageFormat</code> as a | |
94 * parameter separate from the name or noun it's associated with. For example, | |
95 * to generate a message such as "Jean went to Paris", three separate argument
s | |
96 * would be provided: The name of the person as argument 0, the gender of | |
97 * the person as argument 1, and the name of the city as argument 2. | |
98 * The sentence pattern for English, where the gender of the person has | |
99 * no impact on this simple sentence, would not refer to argument 1 at all:</p
> | |
100 * | |
101 * <pre>{0} went to {2}.</pre> | |
102 * | |
103 * <p>The sentence pattern for French, where the gender of the person affects | |
104 * the form of the participle, uses a select format based on argument 1:</p> | |
105 * | |
106 * \htmlonly<pre>{0} est {1, select, female {allée} other {allé}}
à {2}.</pre>\endhtmlonly | |
107 * | |
108 * <p>Patterns can be nested, so that it's possible to handle interactions of | |
109 * number and gender where necessary. For example, if the above sentence shoul
d | |
110 * allow for the names of several people to be inserted, the following sentenc
e | |
111 * pattern can be used (with argument 0 the list of people's names, | |
112 * argument 1 the number of people, argument 2 their combined gender, and | |
113 * argument 3 the city name):</p> | |
114 * | |
115 * \htmlonly | |
116 * <pre>{0} {1, plural, | |
117 * one {est {2, select, female {allée} other {all
9;}}} | |
118 * other {sont {2, select, female {allées} other {all&#x
00E9;s}}} | |
119 * }à {3}.</pre> | |
120 * \endhtmlonly | |
121 * | |
122 * <h4>Patterns and Their Interpretation</h4> | |
123 * | |
124 * <p>The <code>SelectFormat</code> pattern text defines the phrase output | |
125 * for each user-defined keyword. | |
126 * The pattern is a sequence of <code><i>keyword</i>{<i>phrase</i>}</code> | |
127 * clauses. | |
128 * Each clause assigns the phrase <code><i>phrase</i></code> | |
129 * to the user-defined <code><i>keyword</i></code>.</p> | |
130 * | |
131 * <p>Keywords must match the pattern [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*; keywords | |
132 * that don't match this pattern result in the error code | |
133 * <code>U_ILLEGAL_CHARACTER</code>. | |
134 * You always have to define a phrase for the default keyword | |
135 * <code>other</code>; this phrase is returned when the keyword | |
136 * provided to | |
137 * the <code>format</code> method matches no other keyword. | |
138 * If a pattern does not provide a phrase for <code>other</code>, the method | |
139 * it's provided to returns the error <code>U_DEFAULT_KEYWORD_MISSING</code>. | |
140 * If a pattern provides more than one phrase for the same keyword, the | |
141 * error <code>U_DUPLICATE_KEYWORD</code> is returned. | |
142 * <br> | |
143 * Spaces between <code><i>keyword</i></code> and | |
144 * <code>{<i>phrase</i>}</code> will be ignored; spaces within | |
145 * <code>{<i>phrase</i>}</code> will be preserved.<p> | |
146 * | |
147 * <p>The phrase for a particular select case may contain other message | |
148 * format patterns. <code>SelectFormat</code> preserves these so that you | |
149 * can use the strings produced by <code>SelectFormat</code> with other | |
150 * formatters. If you are using <code>SelectFormat</code> inside a | |
151 * <code>MessageFormat</code> pattern, <code>MessageFormat</code> will | |
152 * automatically evaluate the resulting format pattern. | |
153 * Thus, curly braces (<code>{</code>, <code>}</code>) are <i>only</i> allowed | |
154 * in phrases to define a nested format pattern.</p> | |
155 * | |
156 * <p>Example: | |
157 * \htmlonly | |
158 * | |
159 * UErrorCode status = U_ZERO_ERROR; | |
160 * MessageFormat *msgFmt = new MessageFormat(UnicodeString("{0} est {1, select
, female {allée} other {allé}} à Paris."), Locale("fr"), s
tatus); | |
161 * if (U_FAILURE(status)) { | |
162 * return; | |
163 * } | |
164 * FieldPosition ignore(FieldPosition::DONT_CARE); | |
165 * UnicodeString result; | |
166 * | |
167 * char* str1= "Kirti,female"; | |
168 * Formattable args1[] = {"Kirti","female"}; | |
169 * msgFmt->format(args1, 2, result, ignore, status); | |
170 * cout << "Input is " << str1 << " and result is: " << result << endl; | |
171 * delete msgFmt; | |
172 * | |
173 * \endhtmlonly | |
174 * </p> | |
175 * | |
176 * Produces the output:<br> | |
177 * \htmlonly | |
178 * <code>Kirti est allée à Paris.</code> | |
179 * \endhtmlonly | |
180 * | |
181 * @stable ICU 4.4 | |
182 */ | |
183 | |
184 class U_I18N_API SelectFormat : public Format { | |
185 public: | |
186 | |
187 /** | |
188 * Creates a new <code>SelectFormat</code> for a given pattern string. | |
189 * @param pattern the pattern for this <code>SelectFormat</code>. | |
190 * errors are returned to status if the pattern is invalid. | |
191 * @param status output param set to success/failure code on exit, which | |
192 * must not indicate a failure before the function call. | |
193 * @stable ICU 4.4 | |
194 */ | |
195 SelectFormat(const UnicodeString& pattern, UErrorCode& status); | |
196 | |
197 /** | |
198 * copy constructor. | |
199 * @stable ICU 4.4 | |
200 */ | |
201 SelectFormat(const SelectFormat& other); | |
202 | |
203 /** | |
204 * Destructor. | |
205 * @stable ICU 4.4 | |
206 */ | |
207 virtual ~SelectFormat(); | |
208 | |
209 /** | |
210 * Sets the pattern used by this select format. | |
211 * for the keyword rules. | |
212 * Patterns and their interpretation are specified in the class description. | |
213 * | |
214 * @param pattern the pattern for this select format | |
215 * errors are returned to status if the pattern is invalid. | |
216 * @param status output param set to success/failure code on exit, which | |
217 * must not indicate a failure before the function call. | |
218 * @stable ICU 4.4 | |
219 */ | |
220 void applyPattern(const UnicodeString& pattern, UErrorCode& status); | |
221 | |
222 | |
223 using Format::format; | |
224 | |
225 /** | |
226 * Selects the phrase for the given keyword | |
227 * | |
228 * @param keyword The keyword that is used to select an alternative. | |
229 * @param appendTo output parameter to receive result. | |
230 * result is appended to existing contents. | |
231 * @param pos On input: an alignment field, if desired. | |
232 * On output: the offsets of the alignment field. | |
233 * @param status output param set to success/failure code on exit, which | |
234 * must not indicate a failure before the function call. | |
235 * @return Reference to 'appendTo' parameter. | |
236 * @stable ICU 4.4 | |
237 */ | |
238 UnicodeString& format(const UnicodeString& keyword, | |
239 UnicodeString& appendTo, | |
240 FieldPosition& pos, | |
241 UErrorCode& status) const; | |
242 | |
243 /** | |
244 * Assignment operator | |
245 * | |
246 * @param other the SelectFormat object to copy from. | |
247 * @stable ICU 4.4 | |
248 */ | |
249 SelectFormat& operator=(const SelectFormat& other); | |
250 | |
251 /** | |
252 * Return true if another object is semantically equal to this one. | |
253 * | |
254 * @param other the SelectFormat object to be compared with. | |
255 * @return true if other is semantically equal to this. | |
256 * @stable ICU 4.4 | |
257 */ | |
258 virtual UBool operator==(const Format& other) const; | |
259 | |
260 /** | |
261 * Return true if another object is semantically unequal to this one. | |
262 * | |
263 * @param other the SelectFormat object to be compared with. | |
264 * @return true if other is semantically unequal to this. | |
265 * @stable ICU 4.4 | |
266 */ | |
267 virtual UBool operator!=(const Format& other) const; | |
268 | |
269 /** | |
270 * Clones this Format object polymorphically. The caller owns the | |
271 * result and should delete it when done. | |
272 * @stable ICU 4.4 | |
273 */ | |
274 virtual Format* clone(void) const; | |
275 | |
276 /** | |
277 * Format an object to produce a string. | |
278 * This method handles keyword strings. | |
279 * If the Formattable object is not a <code>UnicodeString</code>, | |
280 * then it returns a failing UErrorCode. | |
281 * | |
282 * @param obj A keyword string that is used to select an alternative. | |
283 * @param appendTo output parameter to receive result. | |
284 * Result is appended to existing contents. | |
285 * @param pos On input: an alignment field, if desired. | |
286 * On output: the offsets of the alignment field. | |
287 * @param status output param filled with success/failure status. | |
288 * @return Reference to 'appendTo' parameter. | |
289 * @stable ICU 4.4 | |
290 */ | |
291 UnicodeString& format(const Formattable& obj, | |
292 UnicodeString& appendTo, | |
293 FieldPosition& pos, | |
294 UErrorCode& status) const; | |
295 | |
296 /** | |
297 * Returns the pattern from applyPattern() or constructor. | |
298 * | |
299 * @param appendTo output parameter to receive result. | |
300 * Result is appended to existing contents. | |
301 * @return the UnicodeString with inserted pattern. | |
302 * @stable ICU 4.4 | |
303 */ | |
304 UnicodeString& toPattern(UnicodeString& appendTo); | |
305 | |
306 /** | |
307 * This method is not yet supported by <code>SelectFormat</code>. | |
308 * <P> | |
309 * Before calling, set parse_pos.index to the offset you want to start | |
310 * parsing at in the source. After calling, parse_pos.index is the end of | |
311 * the text you parsed. If error occurs, index is unchanged. | |
312 * <P> | |
313 * When parsing, leading whitespace is discarded (with a successful parse), | |
314 * while trailing whitespace is left as is. | |
315 * <P> | |
316 * See Format::parseObject() for more. | |
317 * | |
318 * @param source The string to be parsed into an object. | |
319 * @param result Formattable to be set to the parse result. | |
320 * If parse fails, return contents are undefined. | |
321 * @param parse_pos The position to start parsing at. Upon return | |
322 * this param is set to the position after the | |
323 * last character successfully parsed. If the | |
324 * source is not parsed successfully, this param | |
325 * will remain unchanged. | |
326 * @stable ICU 4.4 | |
327 */ | |
328 virtual void parseObject(const UnicodeString& source, | |
329 Formattable& result, | |
330 ParsePosition& parse_pos) const; | |
331 | |
332 /** | |
333 * ICU "poor man's RTTI", returns a UClassID for this class. | |
334 * @stable ICU 4.4 | |
335 */ | |
336 static UClassID U_EXPORT2 getStaticClassID(void); | |
337 | |
338 /** | |
339 * ICU "poor man's RTTI", returns a UClassID for the actual class. | |
340 * @stable ICU 4.4 | |
341 */ | |
342 virtual UClassID getDynamicClassID() const; | |
343 | |
344 private: | |
345 typedef enum classesForSelectFormat{ | |
346 tStartKeyword, | |
347 tContinueKeyword, | |
348 tLeftBrace, | |
349 tRightBrace, | |
350 tSpace, | |
351 tOther | |
352 }CharacterClass; | |
353 | |
354 UnicodeString pattern; | |
355 //Hash to store the keyword, phrase pairs. | |
356 Hashtable *parsedValuesHash; | |
357 | |
358 SelectFormat(); // default constructor not implemented. | |
359 void initHashTable(UErrorCode &status); | |
360 void cleanHashTable(); | |
361 | |
362 //For the applyPattern , classifies char.s in one of the characterClass. | |
363 CharacterClass classifyCharacter(UChar ch) const; | |
364 //Checks if the "other" keyword is present in pattern. | |
365 UBool checkSufficientDefinition(); | |
366 //Checks if the keyword passed is valid. | |
367 UBool checkValidKeyword(const UnicodeString& argKeyword) const; | |
368 void parsingFailure(); | |
369 void copyHashtable(Hashtable *other, UErrorCode& status); | |
370 }; | |
371 | |
372 U_NAMESPACE_END | |
373 | |
374 #endif /* #if !UCONFIG_NO_FORMATTING */ | |
375 | |
376 #endif // _SELFMT | |
377 //eof | |
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