SubordTableLookupStrategyFactory.java

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package com.espertech.esper.epl.lookup;

import com.espertech.esper.client.EventBean;
import com.espertech.esper.epl.expression.ExprEvaluatorContext;
import com.espertech.esper.epl.join.table.EventTable;

import java.util.Collection;

/**
 * Strategy for looking up, in some sort of table or index, or a set of events, potentially based on the
 * events properties, and returning a set of matched events.
 */
public interface SubordTableLookupStrategyFactory
{
    public SubordTableLookupStrategy makeStrategy(EventTable eventTable);

    public String toQueryPlan();
}