IFormatProvider.GetFormat(Type) Method

Definition

Returns an object that provides formatting services for the specified type.

public object GetFormat (Type formatType);
public object? GetFormat (Type? formatType);

Parameters

formatType
Type

An object that specifies the type of format object to return.

Returns

An instance of the object specified by formatType, if the IFormatProvider implementation can supply that type of object; otherwise, null.

Examples

The following example illustrates the use of a class that implements the IFormatProvider interface and the GetFormat method. The AcctNumberFormat class converts an Int64 value that represents an account number to a formatted 12-digit account number. Its GetFormat method returns a reference to itself if the formatType parameter refers to a class that implements ICustomFormatter; otherwise, GetFormat returns null.

public class AcctNumberFormat : IFormatProvider, ICustomFormatter
{
   private const int ACCT_LENGTH = 12;

   public object GetFormat(Type formatType)
   {
      if (formatType == typeof(ICustomFormatter))
         return this;
      else
         return null;
   }

   public string Format(string fmt, object arg, IFormatProvider formatProvider)
   {
      // Provide default formatting if arg is not an Int64.
      if (arg.GetType() != typeof(Int64))
         try {
            return HandleOtherFormats(fmt, arg);
         }
         catch (FormatException e) {
            throw new FormatException(String.Format("The format of '{0}' is invalid.", fmt), e);
         }

      // Provide default formatting for unsupported format strings.
      string ufmt = fmt.ToUpper(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
      if (!(ufmt == "H" || ufmt == "I"))
         try {
            return HandleOtherFormats(fmt, arg);
         }
         catch (FormatException e) {
            throw new FormatException(String.Format("The format of '{0}' is invalid.", fmt), e);
         }

      // Convert argument to a string.
      string result = arg.ToString();

      // If account number is less than 12 characters, pad with leading zeroes.
      if (result.Length < ACCT_LENGTH)
         result = result.PadLeft(ACCT_LENGTH, '0');
      // If account number is more than 12 characters, truncate to 12 characters.
      if (result.Length > ACCT_LENGTH)
         result = result.Substring(0, ACCT_LENGTH);

      if (ufmt == "I")                    // Integer-only format.
         return result;
      // Add hyphens for H format specifier.
      else                                         // Hyphenated format.
         return result.Substring(0, 5) + "-" + result.Substring(5, 3) + "-" + result.Substring(8);
   }

   private string HandleOtherFormats(string format, object arg)
   {
      if (arg is IFormattable)
         return ((IFormattable)arg).ToString(format, CultureInfo.CurrentCulture);
      else if (arg != null)
         return arg.ToString();
      else
         return String.Empty;
   }
}

An instance of the AcctNumberFormat class can then be passed as an argument to a method that provides formatting or parsing services. For example, the following code passes an AcctNumberFormat class to the String.Format(IFormatProvider, String, Object[]) method to generate a formatted 12-digit account number.

using System;
using System.Globalization;

public enum DaysOfWeek { Monday=1, Tuesday=2 };

public class TestFormatting
{
   public static void Main()
   {
      long acctNumber;
      double balance;
      DaysOfWeek wday;
      string output;

      acctNumber = 104254567890;
      balance = 16.34;
      wday = DaysOfWeek.Monday;

      output = String.Format(new AcctNumberFormat(),
                             "On {2}, the balance of account {0:H} was {1:C2}.",
                             acctNumber, balance, wday);
      Console.WriteLine(output);

      wday = DaysOfWeek.Tuesday;
      output = String.Format(new AcctNumberFormat(),
                             "On {2}, the balance of account {0:I} was {1:C2}.",
                             acctNumber, balance, wday);
      Console.WriteLine(output);
   }
}
// The example displays the following output:
//       On Monday, the balance of account 10425-456-7890 was $16.34.
//       On Tuesday, the balance of account 104254567890 was $16.34.

Remarks

GetFormat is a callback method that formatting and parsing methods invoke to retrieve information about the format of the input string in parsing operations or the format of the output string in formatting operations. In the formatType parameter, the formatting or parsing method passes the type of object it requires to perform its operation. If the IFormatProvider implementation can supply this formatting or parsing object, it returns that object. If not, it returns null.

For example, in the call to the Int32.ToString(IFormatProvider) method, the method argument is an IFormatProvider object that provides information about how the string representation of the current integer instance might be formatted. When the runtime executes the method, it calls the IFormatProvider object's GetFormat method and passes it a Type object that represents the NumberFormatInfo type. If the IFormatProvider object can supply a NumberFormatInfo object, it returns that object. If it cannot supply an object of that type, it returns null.

You can implement the IFormatProvider interface and the GetFormat method in classes that provide custom formatting or parsing services. The IFormatProvider implementation is then passed as an argument to any overload of a parsing or formatting method that has a parameter of type IFormatProvider, such as String.Format(IFormatProvider, String, Object[]), Int32.ToString(String, IFormatProvider), or DateTime.Parse(String, IFormatProvider).

Applies to

제품 버전
.NET Core 1.0, Core 1.1, Core 2.0, Core 2.1, Core 2.2, Core 3.0, Core 3.1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
.NET Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1
.NET Standard 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1
UWP 10.0