java.text
Class Annotation

java.lang.Object
  extended byjava.text.Annotation

public class Annotation
extends Object

An Annotation object is used as a wrapper for a text attribute value if the attribute has annotation characteristics. These characteristics are:

An example is grammatical information attached to a sentence: For the previous sentence, you can say that "an example" is the subject, but you cannot say the same about "an", "example", or "exam". When the text is changed, the grammatical information typically becomes invalid. Another example is Japanese reading information (yomi).

Wrapping the attribute value into an Annotation object guarantees that adjacent text runs don't get merged even if the attribute values are equal, and indicates to text containers that the attribute should be discarded if the underlying text is modified.

Since:
1.2
See Also:
AttributedCharacterIterator

Field Summary
private  Object value
           
 
Constructor Summary
Annotation(Object value)
          Constructs an annotation record with the given value, which may be null.
 
Method Summary
 Object getValue()
          Returns the value of the attribute, which may be null.
 String toString()
          Returns the String representation of this Annotation.
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait
 

Field Detail

value

private Object value
Constructor Detail

Annotation

public Annotation(Object value)
Constructs an annotation record with the given value, which may be null.

Parameters:
value - The value of the attribute
Method Detail

getValue

public Object getValue()
Returns the value of the attribute, which may be null.


toString

public String toString()
Returns the String representation of this Annotation.

Overrides:
toString in class Object
Returns:
a string representation of the object.