Mutable (Lang 2.6)

All Known Implementing Classes:

MutableBoolean, MutableByte, MutableDouble, MutableFloat, MutableInt, MutableLong, MutableObject, MutableShort
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public interface Mutable
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Provides mutable access to a value.
Mutable is used as a generic interface to the implementations in this package.
A typical use case would be to enable a primitive or string to be passed to a method and allow that method to effectively change the value of the primitive/string. Another use case is to store a frequently changing primitive in a collection (for example a total in a map) without needing to create new Integer/Long wrapper objects.

Since:

2.1

Version:

$Id: Mutable.java 905636 2010-02-02 14:03:32Z niallp $

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`Object`	`getValue()`	Gets the value of this mutable.
`void`	`setValue(Object value)`	Sets the value of this mutable.

- Method Detail
  - getValue
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Object getValue()
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    Gets the value of this mutable.
    
    Returns:
    
    the stored value
  - setValue
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void setValue(Object value)
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    Sets the value of this mutable.
    
    Parameters:
    
    value - the value to store
    
    Throws:
    
    NullPointerException - if the object is null and null is invalid
    
    ClassCastException - if the type is invalid