Module java.desktop
Package javax.print.attribute.standard

# Class DateTimeAtCreation

java.lang.Object
javax.print.attribute.DateTimeSyntax
javax.print.attribute.standard.DateTimeAtCreation

All Implemented Interfaces:
  `Serializable`, `Cloneable`, `Attribute`, `PrintJobAttribute`

public final class DateTimeAtCreation extends DateTimeSyntax implements PrintJobAttribute
Class `DateTimeAtCreation` is a printing attribute class, a date-time attribute, that indicates the date and time at which the Print Job was created.

To construct a `DateTimeAtCreation` attribute from separate values of the year, month, day, hour, minute, and so on, use a `Calendar` object to construct a `Date` object, then use the `Date` object to construct the DateTimeAtCreation attribute. To convert a `DateTimeAtCreation` attribute to separate values of the year, month, day, hour, minute, and so on, create a `Calendar` object and set it to the `Date` from the `DateTimeAtCreation` attribute.

IPP Compatibility: The information needed to construct an IPP "date-time-at-creation" attribute can be obtained as described above. The category name returned by `getName()` gives the IPP attribute name.

See Also:
  - Serialized Form

## Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor
Description
`DateTimeAtCreation(Date dateTime)`
Construct a new date-time at creation attribute with the given `Date` value.

## Method Summary

Modifier and Type
Method
Description
`boolean`
`equals(Object object)`
Returns whether this date-time at creation attribute is equivalent to the passed in object.
`final Class<? extends Attribute>`
`getCategory()`
Get the printing attribute class which is to be used as the "category" for this printing attribute value.
`final String`
`getName()`
Get the name of the category of which this attribute value is an instance.

### Methods declared in class javax.print.attribute.DateTimeSyntax

`getValue, hashCode, toString`

### Methods declared in class java.lang.Object

`clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait`

## Constructor Details

### DateTimeAtCreation

public DateTimeAtCreation(Date dateTime)
Construct a new date-time at creation attribute with the given `Date` value.

Parameters:
  `dateTime` - `Date` value
Throws:
  `NullPointerException` - if `dateTime` is `null`

## Method Details

### equals

public boolean equals(Object object)
Returns whether this date-time at creation attribute is equivalent to the passed in object. To be equivalent, all of the following conditions must be true:

1. `object` is not `null`.
2. `object` is an instance of class `DateTimeAtCreation`.
3. This date-time at creation attribute's `Date` value and `object`'s `Date` value are equal.

Overrides:
  `equals` in class `DateTimeSyntax`
Parameters:
  `object` - `Object` to compare to
Returns:
  `true` if `object` is equivalent to this date-time at creation attribute, `false` otherwise
See Also:
  - `Object.hashCode()`
  - `HashMap`

### getCategory

public final Class<? extends Attribute> getCategory()
Get the printing attribute class which is to be used as the "category" for this printing attribute value.

For class `DateTimeAtCreation`, the category is class `DateTimeAtCreation` itself.

Specified by:
  `getCategory` in interface `Attribute`
Returns:
  printing attribute class (category), an instance of class `java.lang.Class`

### getName

public final String getName()
Get the name of the category of which this attribute value is an instance.

For class `DateTimeAtCreation`, the category name is `"date-time-at-creation"`.

Specified by:
  `getName` in interface `Attribute`
Returns:
  attribute category name