/* This file is part of the db4o object database http://www.db4o.com Copyright (C) 2004 - 2011 Versant Corporation http://www.versant.com db4o is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of version 3 of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. db4o is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. */ package com.db4o.internal; import com.db4o.foundation.*; import com.db4o.marshall.*; /** * Interface for comparison support in queries. */ public interface Comparable4<T> { /** * creates a prepared comparison to compare multiple objects * against one single object. * @param context the context of the comparison * @param obj the object that is to be compared * against multiple other objects * @return the prepared comparison */ PreparedComparison prepareComparison(Context context, T obj); }