/*
 *   ________________________________________________________________________________________
 *   
 *   Y O O R E E K A
 *   A library for data mining, machine learning, soft computing, and mathematical analysis
 *   ________________________________________________________________________________________ 
 *    
 *   The Yooreeka project started with the code of the book "Algorithms of the Intelligent Web " 
 *   (Manning 2009). Although the term "Web" prevailed in the title, in essence, the algorithms 
 *   are valuable in any software application.
 *  
 *   Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Haralambos Marmanis & Dmitry Babenko
 *   Copyright (c) 2009-${year} Marmanis Group LLC and individual contributors as indicated by the @author tags.  
 * 
 *   Certain library functions depend on other Open Source software libraries, which are covered 
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package org.yooreeka.algos.taxis.core;

/**
 * @author <a href="mailto:babis@marmanis.com">Babis Marmanis</a>
 * 
 */
public class AttributeValue {

	private Object value;

	private int count;

	public AttributeValue(Object value) {
		this.value = value;
		count = 1;
	}

	public void count() {
		count++;
	}

	/*
	 * (non-Javadoc)
	 * 
	 * @see java.lang.Object#equals(java.lang.Object)
	 */
	@Override
	public boolean equals(Object obj) {

		final AttributeValue other = (AttributeValue) obj;

		if (obj == null) {
			return false;
		}

		if (getClass() != obj.getClass()) {
			return false;
		}

		if (this == obj) {
			return true;
		}

		if (value == null) {

			if (other.value != null) {
				return false;
			}

		} else if (!value.equals(other.value)) {

			return false;
		}

		return true;
	}

	/**
	 * @return the count
	 */
	public int getCount() {
		return count;
	}

	// OVERRIDEN METHODS

	/**
	 * @return the value
	 */
	public Object getValue() {
		return value;
	}

	/*
	 * (non-Javadoc)
	 * 
	 * @see java.lang.Object#toString()
	 */
	@Override
	public String toString() {
		return "Attribute value: " + value + " was found " + count + "times";
	}
}
