Annotation (Java Platform SE 8 ) (original) (raw)

• java.lang.Object

• • java.text.Annotation

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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:

• The text range that the attribute is applied to is critical to the semantics of the range. That means, the attribute cannot be applied to subranges of the text range that it applies to, and, if two adjacent text ranges have the same value for this attribute, the attribute still cannot be applied to the combined range as a whole with this value.

• The attribute or its value usually do no longer apply if the underlying text is changed.
  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

• • Constructor Summary

  Constructors

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

  • Method Summary

  All Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods

  Modifier and Type	Method	Description
  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](../../java/lang/Object.html "class in java.lang")  
     `[clone](../../java/lang/Object.html#clone--), [equals](../../java/lang/Object.html#equals-java.lang.Object-), [finalize](../../java/lang/Object.html#finalize--), [getClass](../../java/lang/Object.html#getClass--), [hashCode](../../java/lang/Object.html#hashCode--), [notify](../../java/lang/Object.html#notify--), [notifyAll](../../java/lang/Object.html#notifyAll--), [wait](../../java/lang/Object.html#wait--), [wait](../../java/lang/Object.html#wait-long-), [wait](../../java/lang/Object.html#wait-long-int-)`

• • Constructor Detail

     * #### Annotation  
     public Annotation([Object](../../java/lang/Object.html "class in java.lang") 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](../../java/lang/Object.html "class in java.lang") getValue()  
    Returns the value of the attribute, which may be null.  
    Returns:  
    the value of the attribute  
    * #### toString  
    public [String](../../java/lang/String.html "class in java.lang") toString()  
    Returns the String representation of this Annotation.  
    Overrides:  
    `[toString](../../java/lang/Object.html#toString--)` in class `[Object](../../java/lang/Object.html "class in java.lang")`  
    Returns:  
    the `String` representation of this `Annotation`

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