001/* MBeanParameterInfo.java -- Information about an operation's parameters. 002 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009any later version. 010 011GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014General Public License for more details. 015 016You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. 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If you modify this library, you may extend 034this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036exception statement from your version. */ 037 038package javax.management; 039 040/** 041 * Describes the parameters of a constructor or operation associated 042 * with a management bean. The information in this class is immutable 043 * as standard. Of course, subclasses may change this, but this 044 * behaviour is not recommended. 045 * 046 * @author Andrew John Hughes (gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org) 047 * @since 1.5 048 */ 049public class MBeanParameterInfo 050 extends MBeanFeatureInfo 051 implements Cloneable 052{ 053 054 /** 055 * Compatible with JDK 1.5 056 */ 057 private static final long serialVersionUID = 7432616882776782338L; 058 059 /** 060 * The type of the parameter, represented by the class name. 061 */ 062 private String type; 063 064 /** 065 * Constructs a new {@link MBeanParameterInfo} using the specified 066 * name, description and type. 067 * 068 * @param name the name of the attribute. 069 * @param type the type of the attribute, in the form of its class name. 070 * @param desc a description of the attribute. 071 */ 072 public MBeanParameterInfo(String name, String type, String desc) 073 { 074 super(name, desc); 075 this.type = type; 076 } 077 078 /** 079 * Returns a clone of this instance. The clone is created 080 * using just the method provided by {@link java.lang.Object}. 081 * Thus, the clone is just a shallow clone as returned by 082 * that method, and does not contain any deeper cloning based 083 * on the subject of this class. 084 * 085 * @return a clone of this instance. 086 * @see java.lang.Cloneable 087 */ 088 public Object clone() 089 { 090 try 091 { 092 return super.clone(); 093 } 094 catch (CloneNotSupportedException e) 095 { 096 /* This shouldn't happen; we implement Cloneable */ 097 throw new IllegalStateException("clone() called on " + 098 "non-cloneable object."); 099 } 100 } 101 102 /** 103 * Compares this feature with the supplied object. This returns 104 * true iff the object is an instance of {@link MBeanParameterInfo}, 105 * {@link Object#equals()} returns true for a comparison of both the 106 * name and description of this parameter with that of the specified 107 * object (performed by the superclass), and the type of the two 108 * instances is equal. 109 * 110 * @param obj the object to compare. 111 * @return true if the object is a {@link MBeanParameterInfo} 112 * instance, 113 * <code>name.equals(object.getName())</code>, 114 * <code>description.equals(object.getDescription())</code>, 115 * and <code>type.equals(object.getType())</code>. 116 */ 117 public boolean equals(Object obj) 118 { 119 if (!(obj instanceof MBeanParameterInfo)) 120 return false; 121 if (!(super.equals(obj))) 122 return false; 123 MBeanParameterInfo o = (MBeanParameterInfo) obj; 124 return type.equals(o.getType()); 125 } 126 127 /** 128 * Returns the type of this attribute, in the form of its class name. 129 * 130 * @return the type of this attribute. 131 */ 132 public String getType() 133 { 134 return type; 135 } 136 137 /** 138 * Returns the hashcode of the parameter information as the sum of 139 * the hashcode of the superclass and the hashcode of the type. 140 * 141 * @return the hashcode of the parameter information. 142 */ 143 public int hashCode() 144 { 145 return super.hashCode() + type.hashCode(); 146 } 147 148 /** 149 * <p> 150 * Returns a textual representation of this instance. This 151 * is constructed using the class name 152 * (<code>javax.management.MBeanParameterInfo</code>) along 153 * with the name, description and type of the parameter. 154 * </p> 155 * <p> 156 * As instances of this class are immutable, the return value 157 * is computed just once for each instance and reused 158 * throughout its life. 159 * </p> 160 * 161 * @return a @link{java.lang.String} instance representing 162 * the instance in textual form. 163 */ 164 public String toString() 165 { 166 if (string == null) 167 { 168 super.toString(); 169 string = string.substring(0, string.length() - 1) 170 + ",type=" + type 171 + "]"; 172 } 173 return string; 174 } 175 176}