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+package org.apache.lucene.queryParser.spans;
+
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.nodes.FieldableNode;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.AttributeImpl;
+
+/**
+ * This attribute is used by the {@link UniqueFieldQueryNodeProcessor}
+ * processor. It holds a value that defines which is the unique field name that
+ * should be set in every {@link FieldableNode}.<br/>
+ * <br/>
+ *
+ * @see UniqueFieldQueryNodeProcessor
+ */
+public class UniqueFieldAttributeImpl extends AttributeImpl implements
+ UniqueFieldAttribute {
+
+ private static final long serialVersionUID = 8553318595851064232L;
+
+ { enableBackwards = false; }
+
+ private CharSequence uniqueField;
+
+ public UniqueFieldAttributeImpl() {
+ clear();
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public void clear() {
+ this.uniqueField = "";
+ }
+
+ public void setUniqueField(CharSequence uniqueField) {
+ this.uniqueField = uniqueField;
+ }
+
+ public CharSequence getUniqueField() {
+ return this.uniqueField;
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public void copyTo(AttributeImpl target) {
+
+ if (!(target instanceof UniqueFieldAttributeImpl)) {
+ throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+ "cannot copy the values from attribute UniqueFieldAttribute to an instance of "
+ + target.getClass().getName());
+ }
+
+ UniqueFieldAttributeImpl uniqueFieldAttr = (UniqueFieldAttributeImpl) target;
+ uniqueFieldAttr.uniqueField = uniqueField.toString();
+
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public boolean equals(Object other) {
+
+ if (other instanceof UniqueFieldAttributeImpl) {
+
+ return ((UniqueFieldAttributeImpl) other).uniqueField
+ .equals(this.uniqueField);
+
+ }
+
+ return false;
+
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public int hashCode() {
+ return this.uniqueField.hashCode();
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public String toString() {
+ return "<uniqueField uniqueField='" + this.uniqueField + "'/>";
+ }
+
+}