Package com.alachisoft.ncache.runtime.caching

Class Tag

java.lang.Object

com.alachisoft.ncache.runtime.caching.Tag

public class Tag
extends java.lang.Object

Represents a string based identifier that can be associated with the cache items so that they are logically grouped together and can be retrieved efficiently. One or more tags can be associated with each cache item.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
Tag(java.lang.String tag)	Initializes a new instance of tag class.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
boolean	equals(java.lang.Object obj)	It compares the object with the tag and return true if is equal, otherwise it will return false.
int	getHashCode()	Gets the HashCode for the tag.
java.lang.String	getTagName()	Gets the string based tag name.
void	setTagName(java.lang.String tag)	Sets the string based tag name.
java.lang.String	ToString()	Returns string representation of the tag class.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Tag

public Tag(java.lang.String tag)

Initializes a new instance of tag class.

Parameters:

tag - Name of the tag.

Method Detail

getTagName

public java.lang.String getTagName()

Gets the string based tag name.

Returns:

String based tag name.

setTagName

public void setTagName(java.lang.String tag)

Sets the string based tag name.

Parameters:

tag - String based tag name.

ToString

public java.lang.String ToString()

Returns string representation of the tag class.

Returns:

String representation of the tag class.

equals

public boolean equals(java.lang.Object obj)

It compares the object with the tag and return true if is equal, otherwise it will return false.

Overrides:

equals in class java.lang.Object

Parameters:

obj - Object passed must be of type Tag. Otherwise IllegalArgumentException will be thrown.

Returns:

True, if tags are same otherwise, false.

getHashCode

public int getHashCode()

Gets the HashCode for the tag.

Returns:

HashCode for the tag.