AttributeBuilder.java

/**
 * Copyright (c) Codice Foundation
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 */
package ddf.catalog.filter;

/**
 * Starts the fluent API to create {@link org.opengis.filter.Filter} based on a particular {@link ddf.catalog.data.Attribute}
 *
 * @author Michael Menousek, Lockheed Martin
 * @author ddf.isgs@lmco.com
 */
public interface AttributeBuilder extends ExpressionBuilder {

    /**
     * Continue building the {@link org.opengis.filter.Filter} with an implied equality operator. Also used for
     * syntactic completeness (readability).
     *
     * @return ExpressionBuilder to continue building this {@link org.opengis.filter.Filter}
     */
    public abstract ExpressionBuilder is();

}