public static interface

AbstractDocument.AttributeContext

javax.swing.text.AbstractDocument.AttributeContext
Known Indirect Subclasses

Class Overview

An interface that can be used to allow MutableAttributeSet implementations to use pluggable attribute compression techniques. Each mutation of the attribute set can be used to exchange a previous AttributeSet instance with another, preserving the possibility of the AttributeSet remaining immutable. An implementation is provided by the StyleContext class. The Element implementations provided by this class use this interface to provide their MutableAttributeSet implementations, so that different AttributeSet compression techniques can be employed. The method getAttributeContext should be implemented to return the object responsible for implementing the desired compression technique.

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Summary

Public Methods
abstract AttributeSet addAttribute(AttributeSet old, Object name, Object value)
Adds an attribute to the given set, and returns the new representative set.
abstract AttributeSet addAttributes(AttributeSet old, AttributeSet attr)
Adds a set of attributes to the element.
abstract AttributeSet getEmptySet()
Fetches an empty AttributeSet.
abstract void reclaim(AttributeSet a)
Reclaims an attribute set.
abstract AttributeSet removeAttribute(AttributeSet old, Object name)
Removes an attribute from the set.
abstract AttributeSet removeAttributes(AttributeSet old, Enumeration<?> names)
Removes a set of attributes for the element.
abstract AttributeSet removeAttributes(AttributeSet old, AttributeSet attrs)
Removes a set of attributes for the element.

Public Methods

public abstract AttributeSet addAttribute (AttributeSet old, Object name, Object value)

Adds an attribute to the given set, and returns the new representative set.

Parameters
old the old attribute set
name the non-null attribute name
value the attribute value
Returns
  • the updated attribute set
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public abstract AttributeSet addAttributes (AttributeSet old, AttributeSet attr)

Adds a set of attributes to the element.

Parameters
old the old attribute set
attr the attributes to add
Returns
  • the updated attribute set
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public abstract AttributeSet getEmptySet ()

Fetches an empty AttributeSet.

Returns
  • the attribute set

public abstract void reclaim (AttributeSet a)

Reclaims an attribute set. This is a way for a MutableAttributeSet to mark that it no longer need a particular immutable set. This is only necessary in 1.1 where there are no weak references. A 1.1 implementation would call this in its finalize method.

Parameters
a the attribute set to reclaim

public abstract AttributeSet removeAttribute (AttributeSet old, Object name)

Removes an attribute from the set.

Parameters
old the old attribute set
name the non-null attribute name
Returns
  • the updated attribute set
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public abstract AttributeSet removeAttributes (AttributeSet old, Enumeration<?> names)

Removes a set of attributes for the element.

Parameters
old the old attribute set
names the attribute names
Returns
  • the updated attribute set
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public abstract AttributeSet removeAttributes (AttributeSet old, AttributeSet attrs)

Removes a set of attributes for the element.

Parameters
old the old attribute set
attrs the attributes
Returns
  • the updated attribute set
See Also