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$Id$ |
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Copyright (C) 2008 Nicklas Nordborg |
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This file is part of BASE - BioArray Software Environment. |
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Available at http://base.thep.lu.se/ |
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BASE is free software; you can redistribute it and/or |
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modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License |
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as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 |
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of the License, or (at your option) any later version. |
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BASE is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
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GNU General Public License for more details. |
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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along with BASE. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
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package net.sf.basedb.util.filter; |
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A filter is something that selectes or rejects an object |
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due to some property of it. Filters are often used to |
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filter a collection of object to create a sub-collection |
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where all objects share some property. |
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@author Nicklas |
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@version 2.9 |
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@see FilterUtil |
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@base.modified $Date$ |
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public interface Filter<T> |
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{ |
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Evaluate if the given object should pass the filter or not. |
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@param object The object to evaluate |
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@return TRUE if the object passes the filter, FALSE otherwise |
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public boolean evaluate(T object); |
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} |