Class Attribute

java.lang.Object
  |
  +--Attribute

All Implemented Interfaces:

CarFace, java.lang.Cloneable, java.io.Serializable

public class Attribute

extends java.lang.Object

implements java.io.Serializable, CarFace, java.lang.Cloneable

An Attribute consists of a name="value" pair. Both the 'name' and 'value' are strings.

An attribute usually forms an element of an AttributeTuple - see the Basic Terminology section of the User Manual for a description.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Fields inherited from interface CarFace

BOOLEAN_LITERAL, COLLECTION, DOUBLE_LITERAL, EXTERNAL, grammarNames, INTERNAL, KEYPHRASE, LITERALcapacityIncrement, LITERALinitialCapacity, MARKUP, SERIAL, SESSION, STRING_LITERAL, STRINGVALUE_LITERAL

Constructor Summary

Attribute(java.lang.String aName, java.lang.String aValue)
constructs an object with the provided string name and string value

Method Summary

java.lang.Object	clone() returns a clone (copy) of this object.
java.lang.String	getName() returns the name of the attribute
java.lang.String	getValue() returns the value of the attribute
static void	t(java.lang.String s) Provides trace output of string if -dAttribute on command line of CAR run
java.lang.String	toString() converts the object to a string.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Attribute

public Attribute(java.lang.String aName,
                 java.lang.String aValue)

constructs an object with the provided string name and string value

Method Detail

t

public static final void t(java.lang.String s)

Provides trace output of string if -dAttribute on command line of CAR run

clone

public java.lang.Object clone()

returns a clone (copy) of this object.

Overrides:

clone in class java.lang.Object

getName

public java.lang.String getName()

returns the name of the attribute

getValue

public java.lang.String getValue()

returns the value of the attribute

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

converts the object to a string.

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

Returns:

a string represention of the Attribute.