This library is no longer being maintained. Since its initial release in 2011, Apple has filled in many of the gaps FormatterKit was created to fill in Foundation and other SDK frameworks:
| Deprecated FormatterKit API | Apple SDK API | Availability |
|---|---|---|
TTTAddressFormatter |
CNPostalAddressFormatter |
iOS 9.0+ / macOS 10.11+ |
TTTArrayFormatter |
NSListFormatter |
iOS 13.0+ / macOS 10.15+ |
TTTNameFormatter |
NSPersonNameComponentsFormatter |
iOS 9.0+ / macOS 10.11+ |
TTTLocationFormatter |
NSMeasurementFormatter + NSUnitDistance / NSUnitAngle |
iOS 10.0+ / macOS 10.12+ |
TTTOrdinalNumberFormatter |
NSNumberFormatter + NSNumberFormatterOrdinalStyle |
iOS 9.0+ / macOS 10.11+ |
TTTTimeIntervalFormatter |
NSRelativeDateTimeFormatter |
iOS 13.0+ / macOS 10.15+ |
TTTUnitOfInformationFormatter |
NSMeasurementFormatter + NSUnitInformationStorage |
iOS 13.0+ / macOS 10.15+ |
You can continue to use FormatterKit in your projects, but we recommend switching to the corresponding Apple APIs as soon as it makes sense to do so.
Going forward, we plan to spin out non-deprecated formatters into their own repositories for future development as well as any new projects. This repository will remain archived here for compatibility with existing installations.
FormatterKit is a collection of well-crafted NSFormatter subclasses for things like units of information, distance, and relative time intervals. Each formatter abstracts away the complex business logic of their respective domain, so that you can focus on the more important aspects of your application.
In short, use this library if you're manually formatting any of the following (with string interpolation or the like):
- Addresses: Create formatted address strings from components (e.g. 221b Baker St / Paddington / Greater London / NW1 6XE / United Kingdom )
- Arrays: Display
NSArrayelements in a comma-delimited list (e.g. "Russell, Spinoza & Rawls") - Colors: RGB, CMYK, and HSL your ROY G. BIV in style. (e.g.
#BADF00D,rgb(255, 100, 42)) - Location, Distance & Direction: Show
CLLocationDistance,CLLocationDirection, andCLLocationSpeedin metric or imperial units (eg. "240ft Northwest" / "45 km/h SE") - Names: Display personal names in the correct format, according to the current locale and source language (eg. "山田花子" for the Japanese first name "花子" (Hanako) and last name "山田" (Yamada))
- Ordinal Numbers: Convert cardinal
NSNumberobjects to their ordinal in most major languages (eg. "1st, 2nd, 3rd" / "1ère, 2ème, 3ème") - Time Intervals: Show relative time distance between any two
NSDateobjects (e.g. "3 minutes ago" / "yesterday") - Units of Information: Humanized representations of quantities of bits and bytes (e.g. "2.7 MB")
- URL Requests: Print out
cURLorWgetcommand equivalents for anyNSURLRequest(e.g.curl -X POST "https://www.example.com/" -H "Accept: text/html")
You can install FormatterKit via CocoaPods,
by adding the following line to your Podfile:
pod 'FormatterKit', '~> 1.9.0'Run the pod install command to download the library
and integrate it into your Xcode project.
To use FormatterKit in your Xcode project using Carthage,
specify it in Cartfile:
github "FormatterKit/FormatterKit" ~> 1.9.0
Then run the carthage update command to build the framework,
and drag the built FormatterKit.framework into your Xcode project.
Build and run the FormatterKit Example project in Xcode to see an inventory of the available FormatterKit components.
Address formats vary greatly across different regions.
TTTAddressFormatter ties into the
Address Book frameworks
to help your users find their place in the world.
For example, addresses in the United States take the form:
Street Address
City State ZIP
Country
Whereas addresses in Japan follow a different convention:
Postal Code
Prefecture Municipality
Street Address
Country
Requires that the
AddressBookandAddressBookUIframeworks are linked with#importstatements inPrefix.pch.TTTAddressFormatterisn't available on OS X.
TTTAddressFormatter *addressFormatter = [[TTTAddressFormatter alloc] init];
NSLog(@"%@", [addressFormatter stringFromAddressWithStreet:street locality:locality region:region postalCode:postalCode country:country]);Think of this as a production-ready alternative to
NSArray -componentsJoinedByString:.
TTTArrayFormatter comes with internationalization baked-in
and provides a concise API that allows you to configure for any edge cases.
NSArray *list = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"Russel", @"Spinoza", @"Rawls", nil];
TTTArrayFormatter *arrayFormatter = [[TTTArrayFormatter alloc] init];
[arrayFormatter setUsesAbbreviatedConjunction:YES]; // Use '&' instead of 'and'
[arrayFormatter setUsesSerialDelimiter:NO]; // Omit Oxford Comma
NSLog(@"%@", [arrayFormatter stringFromArray:list]); // # => "Russell, Spinoza & Rawls"RGB, CMYK, and HSL your ROY G. BIV in style.
TTTColorFormatter provides string representations of colors.
TTTColorFormatter *colorFormatter = [[TTTColorFormatter alloc] init];
NSString *RGB = [colorFormatter RGBStringFromColor:[UIColor orangeColor]];When working with CoreLocation,
you can use your favorite unit for distance...
so long as your favorite unit is the meter.
If you want to take distance calculations and display them to the user,
you may want to use kilometers instead --- or maybe even miles
if you're of the Imperial persuasion.
TTTLocationFormatter gives you a lot of flexibility in the display of
coordinates, distances, direction, speed, and velocity.
Choose Metric or Imperial, cardinal directions, abbreviations, or degrees,
and configure everything else (number of significant digits, etc.)
with the associated NSNumberFormatter.
TTTLocationFormatter *locationFormatter = [[TTTLocationFormatter alloc] init];
CLLocation *austin = [[CLLocation alloc] initWithLatitude:30.2669444 longitude:-97.7427778];
CLLocation *pittsburgh = [[CLLocation alloc] initWithLatitude:40.4405556 longitude:-79.9961111];NSLog(@"%@", [locationFormatter stringFromDistanceAndBearingFromLocation:pittsburgh toLocation:austin]);
// "2,000 km Southwest"[locationFormatter.numberFormatter setMaximumSignificantDigits:4];
[locationFormatter setBearingStyle:TTTBearingAbbreviationWordStyle];
[locationFormatter setUnitSystem:TTTImperialSystem];
NSLog(@"%@", [locationFormatter stringFromDistanceAndBearingFromLocation:pittsburgh toLocation:austin]);
// "1,218 miles SW"[locationFormatter setBearingStyle:TTTBearingNumericStyle];
NSLog(@"%@ at %@", [locationFormatter stringFromSpeed:25],[locationFormatter stringFromBearingFromLocation:pittsburgh toLocation:austin]);
// "25 mph at 310°"[locationFormatter.numberFormatter setUsesSignificantDigits:NO];
NSLog(@"%@", [locationFormatter stringFromLocation:austin]);
// (30.2669444, -97.7427778)TTTNameFormatter formats names according to the internationalization standards
of the AddressBook framework, which determine, for example,
the display order of names and whether or not to delimit components with whitespace.
TTTNameFormatterisn't available on OS X.
TTTNameFormatter *nameFormatter = [[TTTNameFormatter alloc] init];
NSString *frenchName = [nameFormatter stringFromPrefix:nil firstName:@"Guillaume" middleName:@"François" lastName:@"Antoine" suffix:@"Marquis de l'Hôpital"];
NSLog(@"%@", frenchName);
// "Guillaume François Antoine Marquis de l'Hôpital"
NSString *japaneseName = [nameFormatter stringFromFirstName:@"孝和" lastName:@"関"];
NSLog(@"%@", japaneseName);
// "関孝和"NSNumberFormatter is great for Cardinal numbers (17, 42, 69, etc.), but it doesn't have built-in support for Ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.)
A naïve implementation might be as simple as throwing the one's place in a switch statement and appending "-st", "-nd", etc. But what if you want to support French, which appends "-er", "-ère", and "-eme" in various contexts? How about Spanish? Japanese?
TTTOrdinalNumberFormatter supports English, Spanish, French, German, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese and Swedish. For other languages, you can use the standard default, or override it with your own. For languages whose ordinal indicator depends upon the grammatical properties of the predicate, TTTOrdinalNumberFormatter can format according to a specified gender and/or plurality.
TTTOrdinalNumberFormatter *ordinalNumberFormatter = [[TTTOrdinalNumberFormatter alloc] init];
[ordinalNumberFormatter setLocale:[NSLocale currentLocale]];
[ordinalNumberFormatter setGrammaticalGender:TTTOrdinalNumberFormatterMaleGender];
NSNumber *number = [NSNumber numberWithInteger:2];
NSLog(@"%@", [NSString stringWithFormat:NSLocalizedString(@"You came in %@ place!", nil), [ordinalNumberFormatter stringFromNumber:number]]);Assuming you've provided localized strings for "You came in %@ place!", the output would be:
- English: "You came in 2nd place!"
- French: "Vous êtes arrivé à la 2e place !"
- Spanish: "Usted llegó en 2.o lugar!"
Nearly every application works with time in some way or another.
And when we display temporal information to users,
it's typically in relative terms to the present,
like "3 minutes ago", "10 months ago", or "last month".
TTTTimeIntervalFormatter defaults to a
smart, relative display of an NSTimeInterval value,
with options to extend that behavior to your particular use case.
TTTTimeIntervalFormatter *timeIntervalFormatter = [[TTTTimeIntervalFormatter alloc] init];
[timeIntervalFormatter stringForTimeInterval:0]; // "just now"
[timeIntervalFormatter stringForTimeInterval:-100]; // "1 minute ago"
[timeIntervalFormatter stringForTimeInterval:-8000]; // "2 hours ago"
// Turn idiomatic deictic expressions on / off
[timeIntervalFormatter stringForTimeInterval:-100000]; // "1 day ago"
[timeIntervalFormatter setUsesIdiomaticDeicticExpressions:YES];
[timeIntervalFormatter stringForTimeInterval:-100000]; // "yesterday"
// Customize the present tense deictic expression for
[timeIntervalFormatter setPresentDeicticExpression:@"seconds ago"];
[timeIntervalFormatter stringForTimeInterval:0]; // "seconds ago"
// Expand the time interval for present tense
[timeIntervalFormatter stringForTimeInterval:-3]; // "3 seconds ago"
[timeIntervalFormatter setPresentTimeIntervalMargin:10];
[timeIntervalFormatter stringForTimeInterval:-3]; // "seconds ago"No matter how far abstracted from its underlying hardware an application may be,
there comes a day when it has to communicate the size of a file to the user.
TTTUnitOfInformationFormatter transforms a number of bits or bytes
into a humanized representation,
using either SI decimal or IEC binary unit prefixes.
TTTUnitOfInformationFormatter *unitOfInformationFormatter = [[TTTUnitOfInformationFormatter alloc] init];
[unitOfInformationFormatter stringFromNumberOfBits:[NSNumber numberWithInteger:416]]; // "56 bytes"
// Display in either bits or bytes
[unitOfInformationFormatter setDisplaysInTermsOfBytes:NO];
[unitOfInformationFormatter stringFromNumberOfBits:[NSNumber numberWithInteger:416]]; // "416 bits"
// Use IEC Binary prefixes (base 2 rather than SI base 10; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60027)
[unitOfInformationFormatter setUsesIECBinaryPrefixesForCalculation:NO];
[unitOfInformationFormatter stringFromNumberOfBits:[NSNumber numberWithInteger:8660]]; // "8.66 Kbit"
[unitOfInformationFormatter setUsesIECBinaryPrefixesForCalculation:YES];
[unitOfInformationFormatter setUsesIECBinaryPrefixesForDisplay:YES];
[unitOfInformationFormatter stringFromNumberOfBits:[NSNumber numberWithInteger:416]]; // "8.46 Kibit"NSURLRequest objects encapsulate all of the information made in a network request,
including url, headers, body, etc.
This isn't something you'd normally want to show to a user,
but it'd be nice to have a way to make it more portable for debugging.
Enter: TTTURLRequestFormatter.
In addition to formatting requests simply as POST http://www.example.com/,
it also generates cURL and Wget commands
with all of its headers and data fields intact to debug in the console.
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.example.com/"]];
[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
[request addValue:@"text/html" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Accept"];
[TTTURLRequestFormatter cURLCommandFromURLRequest:request];curl -X POST "https://www.example.com/" -H "Accept: text/html"
FormatterKit comes fully internationalized,
with .strings files for the following locales:
- Catalan (
ca) - Chinese (Simplified) (
zh_Hans) - Chinese (Traditional) (
zh_Hant) - Czech (
cs) - Danish (
da) - Dutch (
nl) - English (
en) - French (
fr) - German (
de) - Greek (
el) - Hebrew (
he) - Hungarian (
hu) - Indonesian (
id) - Italian (
it) - Korean (
ko) - Norwegian Bokmål (
nb) - Norwegian Nynorsk (
nn) - Polish (
pl) - Portuguese (Brazilian) (
pt_BR) - Russian (
ru) - Spanish (
es) - Swedish (
sv) - Turkish (
tr) - Ukranian (
uk) - Vietnamese (
vi)
FormatterKit is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.
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