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title: Attribute
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<h2>Summary</h2>

<div class="markdown-from-sourecode">
  <p><p>The Attribute class represents a single model attribute, like &#39;account_id&#39;.
Subclasses of <a href='attribute.html'>Attribute</a> like <a href='attributedatetime.html'>AttributeDateTime</a> know how to covert between
the JSON representation of that type and the javascript representation.
The Attribute class also exposes convenience methods for generating <a href='matcher.html'>Matcher</a> objects.</p>
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    <h3>Instance Methods</h3>

    <h4 id=equal class="function-name">
      equal(<span class="args"></span>) <a href="#equal" class="link"></a>
    </h4>

    <div class="function-description markdown-from-sourecode">
      <p></p>
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        <strong>Returns</strong>
        <table class="arguments">
          <tr>
            <th>Return Values</th>
          </tr>
          <tr><td class="markdown-from-sourecode"><p>Returns a <a href='matcher.html'>Matcher</a> for objects <code>=</code> to the provided value.</p>
    </td></tr>
        </table>
    <h4 id=in class="function-name">
      in(<span class="args"></span>) <a href="#in" class="link"></a>
    </h4>

    <div class="function-description markdown-from-sourecode">
      <p></p>
    </div>


        <strong>Returns</strong>
        <table class="arguments">
          <tr>
            <th>Return Values</th>
          </tr>
          <tr><td class="markdown-from-sourecode"><p>Returns a <a href='matcher.html'>Matcher</a> for objects <code>=</code> to the provided value.</p>
    </td></tr>
        </table>
    <h4 id=not class="function-name">
      not(<span class="args"></span>) <a href="#not" class="link"></a>
    </h4>

    <div class="function-description markdown-from-sourecode">
      <p></p>
    </div>


        <strong>Returns</strong>
        <table class="arguments">
          <tr>
            <th>Return Values</th>
          </tr>
          <tr><td class="markdown-from-sourecode"><p>Returns a <a href='matcher.html'>Matcher</a> for objects <code>!=</code> to the provided value.</p>
    </td></tr>
        </table>
    <h4 id=descending class="function-name">
      descending(<span class="args"></span>) <a href="#descending" class="link"></a>
    </h4>

    <div class="function-description markdown-from-sourecode">
      <p></p>
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        <strong>Returns</strong>
        <table class="arguments">
          <tr>
            <th>Return Values</th>
          </tr>
          <tr><td class="markdown-from-sourecode"><p>Returns a descending <a href='sortorder.html'>SortOrder</a> for this attribute.</p>
    </td></tr>
        </table>
    <h4 id=ascending class="function-name">
      ascending(<span class="args"></span>) <a href="#ascending" class="link"></a>
    </h4>

    <div class="function-description markdown-from-sourecode">
      <p></p>
    </div>


        <strong>Returns</strong>
        <table class="arguments">
          <tr>
            <th>Return Values</th>
          </tr>
          <tr><td class="markdown-from-sourecode"><p>Returns an ascending <a href='sortorder.html'>SortOrder</a> for this attribute.</p>
    </td></tr>
        </table>