Parsing money with currency symbol on Moneta (JSR 354 reference implementation)

This took me a little while to work out. Moneta is the reference implementation of JSR 354 javax.money specification. It’s not particularly well documented.
Here’s how to parse monetary amounts that use a currency symbol like, for example $2.00 or £3.54 or €9.99.

The trick is to:

• set a pattern on your AmountFormatQueryBuilder
• use the currency sign, ¤, to represent the currency symbol in your pattern
• set the currency style to CurrencyStyle.SYMBOL

import static javax.money.format.MonetaryFormats.getAmountFormat;

import org.javamoney.moneta.format.CurrencyStyle;
import javax.money.format.MonetaryAmount;
import javax.money.format.MonetaryAmountFormat;
import java.util.Locale;

class MoneyTest {

    private static final char CURRENCY_SIGN = '\u00A4';

    public MonetaryAmoutn parse(String money) {
        MonetaryAmountFormat maf = getAmountFormat(
            AmountFormatQueryBuilder.of(Locale.UK)
                .set("pattern", CURRENCY_SIGN + "0.00")
                .set(CurrencyStyle.class, CurrencyStyle.SYMBOL)
                .build()
       );
       return maf.parse(money);
    }

}