001 /* Annotation.java -- Wrapper for a text attribute object 002 Copyright (C) 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004 This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006 GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009 any later version. 010 011 GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014 General Public License for more details. 015 016 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017 along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 019 02110-1301 USA. 020 021 Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022 making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023 conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024 combination. 025 026 As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027 permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028 executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029 modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030 terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031 independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032 module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033 or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034 this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035 obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036 exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 039 package java.text; 040 041 /** 042 * This class is used as a wrapper for a text attribute object. Annotation 043 * objects are associated with a specific range of text. Changing either 044 * the text range or the underlying text invalidates the object. 045 * 046 * @version 0.0 047 * 048 * @author Aaron M. Renn (arenn@urbanophile.com) 049 */ 050 public class Annotation 051 { 052 053 /* 054 * Instance Variables 055 */ 056 057 /** 058 * This is the attribute object being wrappered 059 */ 060 private Object attrib; 061 062 /*************************************************************************/ 063 064 /** 065 * Constructors 066 */ 067 068 /** 069 * This method initializes a new instance of <code>Annotation</code> to 070 * wrapper the specified text attribute object. 071 * 072 * @param attrib The text attribute <code>Object</code> to wrapper. 073 */ 074 public 075 Annotation(Object attrib) 076 { 077 this.attrib = attrib; 078 } 079 080 /*************************************************************************/ 081 082 /* 083 * Instance Variables 084 */ 085 086 /** 087 * This method returns the text attribute object this <code>Annotation</code> 088 * instance is wrappering. 089 * 090 * @return The text attribute object for this <code>Annotation</code>. 091 */ 092 public Object 093 getValue() 094 { 095 return(attrib); 096 } 097 098 /*************************************************************************/ 099 100 /** 101 * This method returns a <code>String</code> representation of this 102 * object. 103 * 104 * @return This object as a <code>String</code>. 105 */ 106 public String 107 toString() 108 { 109 return(getClass().getName() + "[value=" + attrib.toString() + "]"); 110 } 111 112 } // class Annotation