[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBIDE-9356) NLS.bind vs MessageFormat.format
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Max Rydahl Andersen commented on JBIDE-9356:
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They aren't blindly interchangeable.
NLS.bind is the fastest and requires the least memory of the two and should use for any
trivial lookup and when just need to bind raw strings into the format.
MessageFormat.format handles localization of numbers, date's etc. and should thus be
used if localized date format and number format is required.
Since we normally don't have that then in most cases NLS.bind is the winner, and only
in the (probably very) few cases of fully localized is needed MessageFormat should be
used.
I'm keeping the issue open to take a further look to see if its being used very
wrong.
NLS.bind vs MessageFormat.format
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Key: JBIDE-9356
URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-9356
Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
Issue Type: Task
Components: Cleanup
Affects Versions: 3.3.0.M3
Reporter: Rob Stryker
Assignee: Max Rydahl Andersen
Fix For: 3.3.0.Final
A substantial number of classes use NLS.bind(Messages.SomeString, name) to bind message
strings. Another subset of the classes use MessageFormat.format(etc).
I believe NLS.bind() is the correct solution which works properly with eclipse osgi and
all that jazz. Should this be standardized? Is it confusing to be using two interchangable
APIs?
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