- All Implemented Interfaces:
Serializable,Cloneable,Attribute
Attribute interface.
This implementation does not support the schema methods
getAttributeDefinition() and getAttributeSyntaxDefinition().
They simply throw OperationNotSupportedException.
Subclasses of BasicAttribute should override these methods if they
support them.
The BasicAttribute class by default uses Object.equals() to
determine equality of attribute values when testing for equality or
when searching for values, except when the value is an array.
For an array, each element of the array is checked using Object.equals().
Subclasses of BasicAttribute can make use of schema information
when doing similar equality checks by overriding methods
in which such use of schema is meaningful.
Similarly, the BasicAttribute class by default returns the values passed to its
constructor and/or manipulated using the add/remove methods.
Subclasses of BasicAttribute can override get() and getAll()
to get the values dynamically from the directory (or implement
the Attribute interface directly instead of subclassing BasicAttribute).
Note that updates to BasicAttribute (such as adding or removing a value)
does not affect the corresponding representation of the attribute
in the directory. Updates to the directory can only be effected
using operations in the DirContext interface.
A BasicAttribute instance is not synchronized against concurrent
multithreaded access. Multiple threads trying to access and modify a
BasicAttribute should lock the object.
- Since:
- 1.3
- See Also:
- Serialized Form
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