nl.tudelft.simulation.event.ref

Class WeakReference

java.lang.Object

nl.tudelft.simulation.event.ref.Reference

nl.tudelft.simulation.event.ref.WeakReference

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

public class WeakReference
extends Reference

A WeakReference. The weakreference extends the java.lang.ref.WeakReference and besides implementing the Reference interface no changes are defined.

(c) copyright 2002-2005 Delft University of Technology , the Netherlands.

See for project information www.simulation.tudelft.nl/event
License of use: Lesser General Public License (LGPL) , no warranty

Since:

1.2

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $ $Date: 2007/01/06 13:24:36 $

Author:

Peter Jacobs

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
WeakReference(Object referent) Creates a new weak reference that refers to the given object.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Object	get() Returns this reference object's referent.
protected void	set(Object value) sets the value of the reference

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

WeakReference

public WeakReference(Object referent)

Creates a new weak reference that refers to the given object. The new reference is not registered with any queue.

Parameters:

referent - object the new weak reference will refer to

Method Detail

get

public Object get()

Description copied from class: Reference

Returns this reference object's referent. If this reference object has been cleared, either by the program or by the garbage collector, then this method returns null.

Specified by:

get in class Reference

Returns:

The object to which this reference refers, or null if this reference object has been cleared

See Also:

Reference.get()

set

protected void set(Object value)

Description copied from class: Reference

sets the value of the reference

Specified by:

set in class Reference

See Also:

Reference.set(java.lang.Object)