Java string format condition

Question

I want to write a sentence that is dependent on person's gender, here is what i could do:

String createSentence(String name, boolean isMale) {
    return String.format(isMale ? "I met %s, he was OK." : "I met %s, she was OK.", name);
}

but you already see the fail in that (it works, but code is duplicit), i want something like:

String createSentence(String name, boolean isMale) {
    return String.format("I met %s, %b?'he':'she' was OK.", name, isMale);
}

This ofc doesn't work, but is something like this possible?

EDIT:

Since I will want many sentences to be generated, even in different languages, and they will be stored is some sort or array, thus this solution is unhandy:

static String createSentence(String name, boolean isMale) {
    return String.format("I met %s, "+(isMale?"he":"she")+" was OK.", name);
}

Answer 1

How about

return String.format("I met %s, "+(isMale?"he":"she")+" was OK.", name);

or

return String.format("I met %s, %s was OK.", name, (isMale ? "he" : "she"));

---

If you can change type of isMale to integer which for instance would represent mapping

• 0->she,
• 1->he

you could use MessageFormat and its {id,choce,optionValue}

static String createSentence(String name, int isMale) {
    return MessageFormat.format("I met {0}, {1,choice,0#she|1#he} is fine",
            name, isMale);

}

Answer 2

How about using an enum?

enum Gender {

    FEMALE("she"), MALE("he") /* ... */;

    private final String pronoun;

    private Gender(String pronoun) {
        this.pronoun = pronoun;
    }

    public String pronoun() {
        return pronoun;
    }

}

private static String createSentence(String name, Gender gender) {
    return String.format("I met %s, %s was OK.", name, gender.pronoun());
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println(createSentence("Glenda", Gender.FEMALE));
    System.out.println(createSentence("Glen", Gender.MALE));
}

Answer 3

You could go for a combination:

String createSentence(String name, boolean isMale) {
    return String.format("I met %s, %s was OK.", name, isMale? "he": "she");
}