public FlagTerm(Flags flags,
    boolean set) 
{
        this.set = set;
        this.flags = flags;
}

Parameters:

flags - the flags to test

set - test for set or clear; #set

 public boolean equals(Object other) 
{
        if (other == this) return true;
        if (other instanceof FlagTerm == false) return false;
        final FlagTerm otherFlags = (FlagTerm) other;
        return otherFlags.set == this.set && otherFlags.flags.equals(flags);
}

 public Flags getFlags() 
{
        return flags;
}

 public boolean getTestSet() 
{
        return set;
}

 public int hashCode() 
{
        return flags.hashCode();
}

 public boolean match(Message message) 
{
        try {
            Flags msgFlags = message.getFlags();
            if (set) {
                return msgFlags.contains(flags);
            } else {
                // yuk - I wish we could get at the internal state of the Flags
                Flags.Flag[] system = flags.getSystemFlags();
                for (int i = 0; i <  system.length; i++) {
                    Flags.Flag flag = system[i];
                    if (msgFlags.contains(flag)) {
                        return false;
                    }
                }
                String[] user = flags.getUserFlags();
                for (int i = 0; i <  user.length; i++) {
                    String flag = user[i];
                    if (msgFlags.contains(flag)) {
                        return false;
                    }
                }
                return true;
            }
        } catch (MessagingException e) {
            return false;
        }
}