public interface TemporalAccessor
Framework-level interface defining read-only access to a temporal object, such as a date, time, offset or some combination of these.
This is the base interface type for date, time and offset objects. It is implemented by those classes that can provide information as fields or queries.
Most date and time information can be represented as a number. These are modeled using TemporalField
with the number held using a long
to handle large values. Year, month and day-of-month are simple examples of fields, but they also include instant and offsets. See ChronoField
for the standard set of fields.
Two pieces of date/time information cannot be represented by numbers, the chronology and the time-zone. These can be accessed via queries using the static methods defined on TemporalQuery
.
A sub-interface, Temporal
, extends this definition to one that also supports adjustment and manipulation on more complete temporal objects.
This interface is a framework-level interface that should not be widely used in application code. Instead, applications should create and pass around instances of concrete types, such as LocalDate
. There are many reasons for this, part of which is that implementations of this interface may be in calendar systems other than ISO. See ChronoLocalDate
for a fuller discussion of the issues.
boolean isSupported(TemporalField field)
Checks if the specified field is supported.
This checks if the date-time can be queried for the specified field. If false, then calling the range
and get
methods will throw an exception.
ChronoField
. If the field is supported, then true must be returned, otherwise false must be returned. If the field is not a ChronoField
, then the result of this method is obtained by invoking TemporalField.isSupportedBy(TemporalAccessor)
passing this
as the argument.
Implementations must ensure that no observable state is altered when this read-only method is invoked.
field
- the field to check, null returns falsedefault ValueRange range(TemporalField field)
Gets the range of valid values for the specified field.
All fields can be expressed as a long
integer. This method returns an object that describes the valid range for that value. The value of this temporal object is used to enhance the accuracy of the returned range. If the date-time cannot return the range, because the field is unsupported or for some other reason, an exception will be thrown.
Note that the result only describes the minimum and maximum valid values and it is important not to read too much into them. For example, there could be values within the range that are invalid for the field.
ChronoField
. If the field is supported, then the range of the field must be returned. If unsupported, then an UnsupportedTemporalTypeException
must be thrown. If the field is not a ChronoField
, then the result of this method is obtained by invoking TemporalField.rangeRefinedBy(TemporalAccessorl)
passing this
as the argument.
Implementations must ensure that no observable state is altered when this read-only method is invoked.
The default implementation must behave equivalent to this code:
if (field instanceof ChronoField) { if (isSupported(field)) { return field.range(); } throw new UnsupportedTemporalTypeException("Unsupported field: " + field); } return field.rangeRefinedBy(this);
field
- the field to query the range for, not nullDateTimeException
- if the range for the field cannot be obtainedUnsupportedTemporalTypeException
- if the field is not supporteddefault int get(TemporalField field)
Gets the value of the specified field as an int
.
This queries the date-time for the value of the specified field. The returned value will always be within the valid range of values for the field. If the date-time cannot return the value, because the field is unsupported or for some other reason, an exception will be thrown.
ChronoField
. If the field is supported and has an int
range, then the value of the field must be returned. If unsupported, then an UnsupportedTemporalTypeException
must be thrown. If the field is not a ChronoField
, then the result of this method is obtained by invoking TemporalField.getFrom(TemporalAccessor)
passing this
as the argument.
Implementations must ensure that no observable state is altered when this read-only method is invoked.
The default implementation must behave equivalent to this code:
if (range(field).isIntValue()) { return range(field).checkValidIntValue(getLong(field), field); } throw new UnsupportedTemporalTypeException("Invalid field " + field + " + for get() method, use getLong() instead");
field
- the field to get, not nullDateTimeException
- if a value for the field cannot be obtained or the value is outside the range of valid values for the fieldUnsupportedTemporalTypeException
- if the field is not supported or the range of values exceeds an int
ArithmeticException
- if numeric overflow occurslong getLong(TemporalField field)
Gets the value of the specified field as a long
.
This queries the date-time for the value of the specified field. The returned value may be outside the valid range of values for the field. If the date-time cannot return the value, because the field is unsupported or for some other reason, an exception will be thrown.
ChronoField
. If the field is supported, then the value of the field must be returned. If unsupported, then an UnsupportedTemporalTypeException
must be thrown. If the field is not a ChronoField
, then the result of this method is obtained by invoking TemporalField.getFrom(TemporalAccessor)
passing this
as the argument.
Implementations must ensure that no observable state is altered when this read-only method is invoked.
field
- the field to get, not nullDateTimeException
- if a value for the field cannot be obtainedUnsupportedTemporalTypeException
- if the field is not supportedArithmeticException
- if numeric overflow occursdefault <R> R query(TemporalQuery<R> query)
Queries this date-time.
This queries this date-time using the specified query strategy object.
Queries are a key tool for extracting information from date-times. They exists to externalize the process of querying, permitting different approaches, as per the strategy design pattern. Examples might be a query that checks if the date is the day before February 29th in a leap year, or calculates the number of days to your next birthday.
The most common query implementations are method references, such as LocalDate::from
and ZoneId::from
. Additional implementations are provided as static methods on TemporalQuery
.
if (query == TemporalQueries.zoneId() || query == TemporalQueries.chronology() || query == TemporalQueries.precision()) { return null; } return query.queryFrom(this);Future versions are permitted to add further queries to the if statement.
All classes implementing this interface and overriding this method must call TemporalAccessor.super.query(query)
. JDK classes may avoid calling super if they provide behavior equivalent to the default behaviour, however non-JDK classes may not utilize this optimization and must call super
.
If the implementation can supply a value for one of the queries listed in the if statement of the default implementation, then it must do so. For example, an application-defined HourMin
class storing the hour and minute must override this method as follows:
if (query == TemporalQueries.precision()) { return MINUTES; } return TemporalAccessor.super.query(query);
Implementations must ensure that no observable state is altered when this read-only method is invoked.
R
- the type of the resultquery
- the query to invoke, not nullDateTimeException
- if unable to queryArithmeticException
- if numeric overflow occurs
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