Are there alternatives to String.format that use cached formatting? [closed]

Question

Are there any alternatives to Java's String.format which can cache the format String insead of requiring a format parse on each run? it would probably look something like this

Formatter formatter = new Formatter( "oh %s" );

formatter.format("my"); // oh my

Answer 1

You could use the MessageFormat class.

MessageFormat mf = new MessageFormat("oh {0}");
System.out.println(mf.format(new Object[] {"my"}));
System.out.println(mf.format(new Object[] {"this will do it!"}));

Output:

oh my
oh this will do it!

Answer 2

You could look into MessageFormat you can create one instance for a pattern and use it like this:

MessageFormat messageFormat = new MessageFormat(pattern); // initialize once
messageFormat.format(arguments, new StringBuffer(), null).toString(); // use often