All Known Subinterfaces:

DateTimeProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

LocalDateTime, LocalTime, OffsetDateTime, OffsetTime, ZonedDateTime
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public interface TimeProvider
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Provides access to a time in the ISO-8601 calendar system.
TimeProvider is a simple interface that provides uniform access to any object that can provide access to a time in the ISO-8601 calendar system.
The implementation of TimeProvider may be mutable. For example, GregorianCalendar is a mutable implementation of this interface. The result of toLocalTime(), however, is immutable.
When implementing an API that accepts a TimeProvider as a parameter, it is important to convert the input to a LocalTime once and once only. It is recommended that this is done at the top of the method before other processing. This is necessary to handle the case where the implementation of the provider is mutable and changes in value between two calls to toLocalTime().
The recommended way to convert a TimeProvider to a LocalTime is using LocalTime.of(TimeProvider) as this method provides additional null checking.
It is recommended that this interface should only be implemented by classes that provide time information to at least minute precision.
The implementation of TimeProvider may provide more information than just a time. For example, OffsetTime, implements this interface and also provides a zone offset.
TimeProvider makes no guarantees about the thread-safety or immutability of implementations.

- Method Summary
  
  All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
  Modifier and Type Method Description
  
  LocalTime toLocalTime()
  Returns an instance of LocalTime initialized from the state of this object.

- Method Detail
  - toLocalTime
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LocalTime toLocalTime()
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    Returns an instance of LocalTime initialized from the state of this object.
    This method will take the time represented by this object and return a LocalTime constructed using the hour, minute, second and nanosecond. If this object is already a LocalTime then it is simply returned.
    If this object does not support nanosecond precision, then all fields below the precision it does support must be set to zero. For example, if this instance only stores hours, minutes and seconds, then the nanoseconds part will be set to zero.
    The result of this method is a LocalTime which represents a time in the ISO calendar system. Implementors may perform conversion when implementing this method to convert from alternate calendar systems.
    
    Returns:
    
    the LocalTime equivalent to this object, never null
    
    Throws:
    
    CalendricalException - if the time cannot be converted

Interface TimeProvider

Method Summary

Method Detail

toLocalTime