public Attribute(String name,
    Object value) 
{
        if (name == null) {
            throw new RuntimeOperationsException(new IllegalArgumentException("Attribute name cannot be null "));
        }
        this.name = name;
        this.value = value;
}

Constructs an Attribute object which associates the given attribute name with the given value.

Parameters:

name - A String containing the name of the attribute to be created. Cannot be null.

value - The Object which is assigned to the attribute. This object must be of the same type as the attribute.

 public boolean equals(Object object) 
{
        if (!(object instanceof Attribute)) {
            return false;
        }
        Attribute val = (Attribute) object;
        if (value == null) {
            if (val.getValue() == null) {
                return name.equals(val.getName());
            } else {
                return false;
            }
        }
        return ((name.equals(val.getName())) &&
                (value.equals(val.getValue())));
}

Compares the current Attribute Object with another Attribute Object.

 public String getName() 
{
        return name;
}

Returns a String containing the name of the attribute.

 public Object getValue() 
{
        return value;
}

Returns an Object that is the value of this attribute.

 public int hashCode() 
{
        return name.hashCode() ^ (value == null ? 0 : value.hashCode());
}

Returns a hash code value for this attribute.

 public String toString() 
{
        return getName() + " = " + getValue();
}

Returns a String object representing this Attribute's value. The format of this string is not specified, but users can expect that two Attributes return the same string if and only if they are equal.