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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2008 Sonatype, Inc.
+ * 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
+ *******************************************************************************/
+
+package org.eclipse.m2e.core.internal.index;
+
+/**
+ * SearchExpression is a wrapper interface for expressions representable as plain strings to be used within searches.
+ * 
+ * @author cstamas
+ */
+public interface SearchExpression {
+
+  /**
+   * Returns the expression value as plain java String.
+   * 
+   * @return
+   */
+  String getStringValue();
+
+}