/*
* This is eMonocot, a global online biodiversity information resource.
*
* Copyright © 2011–2015 The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and The University of Oxford
*
* eMonocot is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
* GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3
* of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* eMonocot 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 Affero General Public License for more details.
*
* The complete text of the GNU Affero General Public License is in the source repository as the file
* ‘COPYING’. It is also available from <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
package org.emonocot.api.match;
import java.util.List;
import org.emonocot.api.match.Match;
/**
* @author jk00kg
*/
public interface Matcher<I, O> {
/**
* For a given type input (I), return a list of matches to a given output (O)
* @param input - The input for the matching service. This could be a string, identifier or example object
* @return - A list of matches, typed for convenience
*/
List<Match<O>> getMatches(I input);
}