Suppose you assign a custom CharacterIterator.Attribute to the first five characters of a ten-character string.
Suppose further you assign a different CharacterIterator.Attribute to the remaining characters.
Why then, when I call AttributedString.getRunStart(firstAttribute) do I get 0 (I expect this) and when I call AttributedString.getRunStart(secondAttribute) do I also get 0?
Here's my setup code:
final AttributedString s = new AttributedString("SQ3R9FFFFF");
final Attribute baseID = new Attribute("Base ID") {};
final Attribute fs = new Attribute("FFF") {};
s.addAttribute(baseID, "Ignored", 0, 5);
s.addAttribute(fs, "Whatever", 5, 10);
final AttributedCharacterIterator iterator = s.getIterator();
assertNotNull(iterator);
And now here's some code that outputs some diagnostics:
for (char c = iterator.first(); c != DONE; c = iterator.next()) {
System.out.println("Character: " + c);
System.out.println("Character index: " + iterator.getIndex());
System.out.println("Attributes: " + iterator.getAttributes());
System.out.println("Start for baseID: " + iterator.getRunStart(baseID));
System.out.println("Limit for baseID: " + iterator.getRunLimit(baseID));
System.out.println("Start for fs: " + iterator.getRunStart(fs));
System.out.println("Limit for fs: " + iterator.getRunLimit(fs));
}
The output is this:
Character: S
Character index: 0
Attributes: {com.foobar.collection.api.TestCaseAttributedString$1(Base ID)=Ignored}
Start for baseID: 0
Limit for baseID: 5
Start for fs: 0
Limit for fs: 5
Character: Q
Character index: 1
Attributes: {com.foobar.collection.api.TestCaseAttributedString$1(Base ID)=Ignored}
Start for baseID: 0
Limit for baseID: 5
Start for fs: 0
Limit for fs: 5
Character: 3
Character index: 2
Attributes: {com.foobar.collection.api.TestCaseAttributedString$1(Base ID)=Ignored}
Start for baseID: 0
Limit for baseID: 5
Start for fs: 0
Limit for fs: 5
Character: R
Character index: 3
Attributes: {com.foobar.collection.api.TestCaseAttributedString$1(Base ID)=Ignored}
Start for baseID: 0
Limit for baseID: 5
Start for fs: 0
Limit for fs: 5
Character: 9
Character index: 4
Attributes: {com.foobar.collection.api.TestCaseAttributedString$1(Base ID)=Ignored}
Start for baseID: 0
Limit for baseID: 5
Start for fs: 0
Limit for fs: 5
Character: F
Character index: 5
Attributes: {com.foobar.collection.api.TestCaseAttributedString$2(FFF)=Whatever}
Start for baseID: 5
Limit for baseID: 10
Start for fs: 5
Limit for fs: 10
Character: F
Character index: 6
Attributes: {com.foobar.collection.api.TestCaseAttributedString$2(FFF)=Whatever}
Start for baseID: 5
Limit for baseID: 10
Start for fs: 5
Limit for fs: 10
Character: F
Character index: 7
Attributes: {com.foobar.collection.api.TestCaseAttributedString$2(FFF)=Whatever}
Start for baseID: 5
Limit for baseID: 10
Start for fs: 5
Limit for fs: 10
Character: F
Character index: 8
Attributes: {com.foobar.collection.api.TestCaseAttributedString$2(FFF)=Whatever}
Start for baseID: 5
Limit for baseID: 10
Start for fs: 5
Limit for fs: 10
Character: F
Character index: 9
Attributes: {com.foobar.collection.api.TestCaseAttributedString$2(FFF)=Whatever}
Start for baseID: 5
Limit for baseID: 10
Start for fs: 5
Limit for fs: 10
Note, in particular, the last entry, which reports that the "Start" for "baseID" is 5. Huh?
