public String toPattern ( ) { // Return the original, applied pattern string, or else "". // Note: This does not take into account // - changes from setFormat() and similar methods, or // - normalization of apostrophes and arguments, for example, // whether some date/time/number formatter was created via a pattern // but is equivalent to the "medium" default format. if ( customFormatArgStarts != null ) { throw new IllegalStateException ( "toPattern() is not supported after custom Format objects " + "have been set via setFormat() or similar APIs" ) ; } if ( msgPattern == null ) { return "" ; } String originalPattern = msgPattern . getPatternString ( ) ; return originalPattern == null ? "" : originalPattern ; }
Returns the applied pattern string .