source: events/src/main/java/geniusweb/actions/PartyId.java@ 46

package geniusweb.actions;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonValue;

/**
 * Unique ID of a party in a negotiation. The name should start with a short
 * string indicating the party (eg, the party name plus some machine
 * identifier), optionally followed by an "_", and more characters to make the
 * partyid unique. We require the name and "-" so that the string up to the
 * first "-" can be used to determine between sessions which opponents are
 * instances of the same class.
 * <h2>Note</h2> Normally, negotiation parties should not create new Party IDs
 * as all needed IDs should be provided by the protocol.
 */
public final class PartyId {
        @JsonValue
        private final String name;

        /**
         * 
         * @param name a simple name, starting with letter, followed by zero or more
         *             letters, digits or _.
         */
        public PartyId(String name) {
                if (name == null || !name.matches("[a-zA-Z]\\w*")) {
                        throw new IllegalArgumentException("name '" + name
                                        + "' is not a letter followed by zero or more word characters (letter, digit or _)");
                }
                this.name = name;
        }

        public String getName() {
                return name;
        }

        @Override
        public String toString() {
                return name;
        }

        @Override
        public int hashCode() {
                final int prime = 31;
                int result = 1;
                result = prime * result + ((name == null) ? 0 : name.hashCode());
                return result;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean equals(Object obj) {
                if (this == obj)
                        return true;
                if (obj == null)
                        return false;
                if (getClass() != obj.getClass())
                        return false;
                PartyId other = (PartyId) obj;
                if (name == null) {
                        if (other.name != null)
                                return false;
                } else if (!name.equals(other.name))
                        return false;
                return true;
        }

}