wordBased() with abbreviated output

[msqr]

I really like the AmountFormats.wordBased() methods for generating localized time period descriptions, but would really like to be able to generate output with abbreviations, sort of like if the methods could accept a java.time.format.FormatStyle.SHORT style argument, for example:

public static String wordBased(Period period, Duration duration, Locale locale, FormatStyle style) {
    // impl here
}

For example instead of output like:

25 days, 7 hours and 5 minutes

I'm after output more like this:

25 days, 7 hr, 5 min

The time4j project supports this concept (see English i18n example) but I was hoping to avoid including another library in my project that is already using threeten-extra.

Would there be any interest in incorporating this concept into the project?

[msqr]

To help further clarify, I added a POC in the commit linked above. I added methods that accept a FormatStyle argument, and then resolve the message bundle name dynamically based on that. I only added English messages, to demonstrate.

[jodastephen]

I think my main concern would be how to agree on the textual values for each format style. The answer is probably to look at CLDR, but that tends to be painful to interpret

[msqr]

If not wanting to be opinionated about the abbreviations, what about allowing a ResourceBundle to be passed as an argument, instead of the FormatStyle? That would push the burden of providing the translations onto the consumer of this library, but avoid taking a stand on the abbreviations. For example:

public static String wordBased(Period period, Duration duration, ResourceBundle bundle)