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 * Units of Measurement API
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package javax.measure.spi;

import java.util.Set;

import javax.measure.format.QuantityFormat;
import javax.measure.format.UnitFormat;

/**
 * This interface represent the service to obtain instances of {@link UnitFormat} and {@link QuantityFormat}.
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Werner Keil</a>
 * @version 1.0, March 29, 2018
 * @since 2.0
 */
public interface FormatService extends UnitFormatService {

  public static enum FormatType {
    UNIT_FORMAT, QUANTITY_FORMAT
  }

  /**
   * Returns the default quantity format.
   *
   * It is up to implementations what to consider a suitable default. For some (locale-sensitive) implementations it may be a quantity format based on
   * <code>Locale.current()</code> while others may return <code>getQuantityFormat("Simple")</code> or <code>getQuantityFormat("ISO")</code>
   *
   * @return the default {@link QuantityFormat} implementation.
   */
  QuantityFormat getQuantityFormat();

  /**
   * Returns the quantity format having the specified name or <code>null</code> if none.
   *
   * For example <code>getQuantityFormat("Simple")</code> to return the simple UCUM specific {@link QuantityFormat} implementation.
   *
   * @param name
   *          the name of the format.
   * @return the corresponding quantity format.
   */
  QuantityFormat getQuantityFormat(String name);

  /**
   * Gets a list with available format names of a given type for this format service.
   * 
   * @param type
   *          the {@link FormatType}
   * @return list of available formats, never null.
   */
  Set<String> getAvailableFormatNames(FormatType type);
}