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package java.text;

/**

* An Annotation object is used as a wrapper for a text attribute value if

* the attribute has annotation characteristics. These characteristics are:

* <ul>

* <li>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.

* <li>The attribute or its value usually do no longer apply if the underlying text is

* changed.

* </ul>

*

* 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).

*

* <p>

* 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.

*

* @see AttributedCharacterIterator

* @since 1.2

*/

public class Annotation {

    /**

     * Constructs an annotation record with the given value, which

     * may be null.

     * @param value The value of the attribute

     */

    public Annotation(Object value) {

        this.value = value;

    }

    /**

     * Returns the value of the attribute, which may be null.

     */

    public Object getValue() {

        return value;

    }

    /**

     * Returns the String representation of this Annotation.

     */

    public String toString() {

        return getClass().getName() + "[value=" + value + "]";

    }

    private Object value;

};