MentionsFormatter (XWiki Platform - Mentions - API 15.2-rc-1 API)

```
@Role
public interface MentionsFormatter
```
Provides services to format the user mentions.
Unless you know statically the type of actor to format, MentionFormatterProvider should be used to resolve the formatter to use according to the type of the actor.

Since:

12.10

Version:

$Id: a6011f476c202ebfd85c244bafd59e75dd7a2169 $

See Also:

MentionFormatterProvider

- Method Summary
  
  All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
  Modifier and Type Method Description
  
  String formatMention(String actorReference, DisplayStyle style)
  Format a actor mention.

- Method Detail
  - formatMention
```
String formatMention(String actorReference,
                     DisplayStyle style)
```
    Format a actor mention.
    The formatter takes the serialized reference of an actor and returns an user readable string. The kind of actor handled is specific to a MentionFormatter implementation.
    
    Parameters:
    
    actorReference - the actor reference
    
    style - the display style of the mention
    
    Returns:
    
    the formatted mention