Field Detail

• LANGUAGE

  public static final AttributedCharacterIterator.Attribute LANGUAGE

  Attribute key for the language of some text.

  Values are instances of Locale.

  See Also:

  Locale

• READING

  public static final AttributedCharacterIterator.Attribute READING

  Attribute key for the reading of some text. In languages where the written form and the pronunciation of a word are only loosely related (such as Japanese), it is often necessary to store the reading (pronunciation) along with the written form.

  Values are instances of Annotation holding instances of String.

  See Also:

  Annotation, String

• INPUT_METHOD_SEGMENT

  public static final AttributedCharacterIterator.Attribute INPUT_METHOD_SEGMENT

  Attribute key for input method segments. Input methods often break up text into segments, which usually correspond to words.

  Values are instances of Annotation holding a null reference.

  See Also:

  Annotation

Constructor Detail

• Attribute

  protected Attribute(String name)

  Constructs an Attribute with the given name.

  Parameters:

  name - the name of Attribute

Method Detail

• equals

  public final boolean equals(Object obj)

  Compares two objects for equality. This version only returns true for x.equals(y) if x and y refer to the same object, and guarantees this for all subclasses.

  Overrides:

  equals in class  Object

  Parameters:

  obj - the reference object with which to compare.

  Returns:

  true if this object is the same as the obj argument; false otherwise.

  See Also:

  Object.hashCode(), HashMap

• hashCode

  public final int hashCode()

  Returns a hash code value for the object. This version is identical to the one in Object, but is also final.

  Overrides:

  hashCode in class  Object

  Returns:

  a hash code value for this object.

  See Also:

  Object.equals(java.lang.Object), System.identityHashCode(java.lang.Object)

• toString

  public String toString()

  Returns a string representation of the object. This version returns the concatenation of class name, "(", a name identifying the attribute and ")".

  Overrides:

  toString in class  Object

  Returns:

  a string representation of the object.

• getName

  protected String getName()

  Returns the name of the attribute.

  Returns:

  the name of Attribute

• readResolve

  protected Object readResolve()
                        throws InvalidObjectException

  Resolves instances being deserialized to the predefined constants.

  Returns:

  the resolved Attribute object

  Throws:

  InvalidObjectException - if the object to resolve is not an instance of Attribute