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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.lang3.text;
+
+import java.text.FieldPosition;
+import java.text.Format;
+import java.text.ParseException;
+import java.text.ParsePosition;
+
+/**
+ * Formats using one formatter and parses using a different formatter. An
+ * example of use for this would be a webapp where data is taken in one way and
+ * stored in a database another way.
+ * @deprecated As of 3.6, use Apache Commons Text
+ * <a href="https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-text/javadocs/api-release/org/apache/commons/text/CompositeFormat.html">
+ * CompositeFormat</a> instead
+ */
+@Deprecated
+public class CompositeFormat extends Format {
+
+    /**
+     * Required for serialization support.
+     *
+     * @see java.io.Serializable
+     */
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = -4329119827877627683L;
+
+    /** The parser to use. */
+    private final Format parser;
+    /** The formatter to use. */
+    private final Format formatter;
+
+    /**
+     * Create a format that points its parseObject method to one implementation
+     * and its format method to another.
+     *
+     * @param parser implementation
+     * @param formatter implementation
+     */
+    public CompositeFormat(final Format parser, final Format formatter) {
+        this.parser = parser;
+        this.formatter = formatter;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Uses the formatter Format instance.
+     *
+     * @param obj the object to format
+     * @param toAppendTo the {@link StringBuffer} to append to
+     * @param pos the FieldPosition to use (or ignore).
+     * @return {@code toAppendTo}
+     * @see Format#format(Object, StringBuffer, FieldPosition)
+     */
+    @Override // Therefore has to use StringBuffer
+    public StringBuffer format(final Object obj, final StringBuffer toAppendTo,
+            final FieldPosition pos) {
+        return formatter.format(obj, toAppendTo, pos);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Uses the parser Format instance.
+     *
+     * @param source the String source
+     * @param pos the ParsePosition containing the position to parse from, will
+     *            be updated according to parsing success (index) or failure
+     *            (error index)
+     * @return the parsed Object
+     * @see Format#parseObject(String, ParsePosition)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public Object parseObject(final String source, final ParsePosition pos) {
+        return parser.parseObject(source, pos);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Provides access to the parser Format implementation.
+     *
+     * @return parser Format implementation
+     */
+    public Format getParser() {
+        return this.parser;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Provides access to the parser Format implementation.
+     *
+     * @return formatter Format implementation
+     */
+    public Format getFormatter() {
+        return this.formatter;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Utility method to parse and then reformat a String.
+     *
+     * @param input String to reformat
+     * @return A reformatted String
+     * @throws ParseException thrown by parseObject(String) call
+     */
+    public String reformat(final String input) throws ParseException {
+        return format(parseObject(input));
+    }
+
+}