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package org.apache.wink.json4j.internal;

import org.apache.wink.json4j.JSONString;

/**
 * An simple class provided for API compatibility to other JSON models that 'represents' 
 * 'null' in an actual object.
 */
public class Null implements JSONString {

    /**
     * Equals function that returns true for comparisons to null.
     */
    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
        if (obj == null) {
            return true;
        } else {
            return false;
        }
    }

    /**
     * toString method that just returns 'null' as the string.
     */
    public String toString() {
        return "null";

    }

    /**
     * Method to return a JSON compliant representation of this object.
     * @return a JSON formatted string.
     */
    public String toJSONString() {
        return this.toString();
    }

}




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