net.jini.entry

Class AbstractEntry

java.lang.Object

net.jini.entry.AbstractEntry

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Cloneable, CloneableEntry, Entry

public abstract class AbstractEntry
extends Object
implements CloneableEntry

An abstract implementation of Entry that provides useful implementations of equals, hashCode, and toString. Implementations of the Entry interface may, but are not required to, extend this class.

The methods of this class consult the entry fields of the entries they process. The entry fields of an Entry are its public, non-primitive, non-static, non-transient, non-final fields.

Author:

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

See Also:

Entry, Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Modifier	Constructor and Description
protected	AbstractEntry() Creates an instance of this class.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Entry	clone() Clone has been implemented to allow utilities such as ServiceDiscoveryManager to avoid sharing internally stored instances with client code.
static boolean	equals(Entry e1, Entry e2) Returns true if the two arguments are of the same class and for each entry field F, the arguments' values for F are either both null or the invocation of equals on one argument's value for F with the other argument's value for F as its parameter returns true.
boolean	equals(Object other) Compares this AbstractEntry to the specified object.
int	hashCode() Returns the result of calling AbstractEntry.hashCode(this).
static int	hashCode(Entry entry) Returns zero XORed with the result of invoking hashCode on each of the argument's non-null entry fields.
String	toString() Returns the result of calling AbstractEntry.toString(this).
static String	toString(Entry entry) Returns a String representation of its argument that will contain the name of the argument's class and a representation of each of the argument's entry fields.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

AbstractEntry

protected AbstractEntry()

Creates an instance of this class.

Method Detail

clone

public Entry clone()

Clone has been implemented to allow utilities such as ServiceDiscoveryManager to avoid sharing internally stored instances with client code. Entry's that have mutable fields, for example arrays or collections, should override this method, call super.clone(), then safely copy any mutable fields before returning.

Specified by:

clone in interface CloneableEntry

Overrides:

clone in class Object

Returns:

a clone of the original Entry

Since:

3.0.0

equals

public boolean equals(Object other)

Compares this AbstractEntry to the specified object. If other is null or not an instance of Entry returns false, otherwise returns the result of calling AbstractEntry.equals(this, (Entry) other).

Overrides:

equals in class Object

Parameters:

other - the object to compare this AbstractEntry against

Returns:

true if this object is equivalent to other and false otherwise

equals

public static boolean equals(Entry e1,
                             Entry e2)

Returns true if the two arguments are of the same class and for each entry field F, the arguments' values for F are either both null or the invocation of equals on one argument's value for F with the other argument's value for F as its parameter returns true. Will also return true if both arguments are null. In all other cases an invocation of this method will return false.

Parameters:

e1 - an entry object to compare to e2

e2 - an entry object to compare to e1

Returns:

true if the two arguments are equivalent

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Returns the result of calling AbstractEntry.hashCode(this).

Overrides:

hashCode in class Object

Returns:

the result of calling AbstractEntry.hashCode(this)

hashCode

public static int hashCode(Entry entry)

Returns zero XORed with the result of invoking hashCode on each of the argument's non-null entry fields. Returns 0 if the argument is null.

Parameters:

entry - the Entry for which to generate a hash code

Returns:

a hash code formed by XORing the hash codes of entry's non-null entry field, or 0 if entry is null

toString

public String toString()

Returns the result of calling AbstractEntry.toString(this).

Overrides:

toString in class Object

Returns:

the result of calling AbstractEntry.toString(this)

toString

public static String toString(Entry entry)

Returns a String representation of its argument that will contain the name of the argument's class and a representation of each of the argument's entry fields. The representation of each entry field will include the field's name and a representation of its value. If passed null will return the string "null".

Parameters:

entry - an entry to represent as a String

Returns:

a String representation of entry that contains the name of the entry's class and a representation of each of entry's entry fields