Constructor Detail

• CurrencyNameProvider

  protected CurrencyNameProvider()

  Sole constructor. (For invocation by subclass constructors, typically implicit.)

Method Detail

• getSymbol

  public abstract String getSymbol(String currencyCode,
                 Locale locale)

  Gets the symbol of the given currency code for the specified locale. For example, for "USD" (US Dollar), the symbol is "$" if the specified locale is the US, while for other locales it may be "US$". If no symbol can be determined, null should be returned.

  Parameters:

  currencyCode - the ISO 4217 currency code, which consists of three upper-case letters between 'A' (U+0041) and 'Z' (U+005A)

  locale - the desired locale

  Returns:

  the symbol of the given currency code for the specified locale, or null if the symbol is not available for the locale

  Throws:

  NullPointerException - if currencyCode or locale is null

  IllegalArgumentException - if currencyCode is not in the form of three upper-case letters, or locale isn't one of the locales returned from getAvailableLocales().

  See Also:

  Currency.getSymbol(java.util.Locale)

• getDisplayName

  public String getDisplayName(String currencyCode,
                      Locale locale)

  Returns a name for the currency that is appropriate for display to the user. The default implementation returns null.

  Parameters:

  currencyCode - the ISO 4217 currency code, which consists of three upper-case letters between 'A' (U+0041) and 'Z' (U+005A)

  locale - the desired locale

  Returns:

  the name for the currency that is appropriate for display to the user, or null if the name is not available for the locale

  Throws:

  IllegalArgumentException - if currencyCode is not in the form of three upper-case letters, or locale isn't one of the locales returned from getAvailableLocales().

  NullPointerException - if currencyCode or locale is null

  Since:

  1.7