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-/*******************************************************************************
- * Copyright (c) 2009 - 2010 Cloudsmith Inc. and others.
- * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
- * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
- * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
- * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
- *
- * Contributors:
- * Cloudsmith Inc. - initial API and implementation
- *******************************************************************************/
-package org.eclipse.equinox.p2.metadata.expression;
-
-/**
- * A match expression is a boolean expression matching a candidate of a
- * specific type. An {@link IEvaluationContext} is needed in order to evaluate
- * a match and this class provides two ways of doing that. Either a context
- * is created first and then reused in several subsequent calls to
- * {@link #isMatch(IEvaluationContext, Object)} or, if no repeated calls are
- * expected, the {@link #isMatch(Object)} method can be used. It will then
- * create a context on each call.
- * @since 2.0
- */
-public interface IMatchExpression<T> extends IExpression {
- /**
- * <p>Creates a new context to be passed to repeated subsequent evaluations. The context
- * will introduce 'this' as an uninitialized variable and make the parameters available.
- * @return A new evaluation context.
- */
- IEvaluationContext createContext();
-
- /**
- * Returns the parameters that this match expression was created with.
- * @return An array of parameters, possibly empty but never <code>null</code>.
- */
- Object[] getParameters();
-
- /**
- * This method creates a new evaluation context and assigns the <code>candidate</code>
- * to the 'this' variable of the <code>context</code> and then evaluates the expression.
- * This is essentially a short form for <pre>isMatch(createContext(), candidate)</pre>.
- * @param candidate The object to test.
- * @return the result of the evaluation.
- */
- boolean isMatch(T candidate);
-
- /**
- * This method assigns <code>candidate</code> to the 'this' variable of the
- * <code>context</code> and then evaluates the expression.
- * @param context A context
- * @param candidate The object to test.
- * @return the result of the evaluation.
- */
- boolean isMatch(IEvaluationContext context, T candidate);
-}

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