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Class w3c.tools.store.AttributeRegistry 

java.lang.Object
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   +----w3c.tools.store.AttributeRegistry
public class AttributeRegistry
extends Object

Constructor Index

o AttributeRegistry()

Method Index

o getAttributeClass(Class, String)
Get the name of the class that has declared this attribute.
o getClassAttributes(Class)
Get this class declared attributes.
o registerAttribute(Class, Attribute)
Register a new attribute for a given class.

Constructors

o AttributeRegistry 
 public AttributeRegistry()

Methods

o registerAttribute 
 public static synchronized int registerAttribute(Class cls,
                                                  Attribute attr)
Register a new attribute for a given class. This method create the approrpriate attribute description record if required, and return the index of this attribute in the corresponding holder instances.

Parameters:
cls - The class that defines this attribute.
attr - The attribute to declare.
Returns:
The attribute index.
o getClassAttributes 
 public static synchronized Attribute[] getClassAttributes(Class cls)
Get this class declared attributes.

Parameters:
cls - The class we are querying.
Returns:
An array of Attribute instances, describing each of the attributes of all instances of the class, or null if the class hasn't defined any attributes.
o getAttributeClass 
 public static Class getAttributeClass(Class cls,
                                       String attrname)
Get the name of the class that has declared this attribute.

Parameters:
cls - The class that makes the starting point of lookup.
attr - The attribute we are looking for.
Returns:
The name of the class that defined that attribute, or null. 
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