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* Copyright (c) 2008, 2010 Freescale Semiconductor and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
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*
* Contributors:
* Serge Beauchamp(Freescale Semiconductor) - initial API and implementation
* IBM Corporation - ongoing development
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.core.resources.filtermatchers;
import org.eclipse.core.filesystem.IFileInfo;
import org.eclipse.core.filesystem.provider.FileInfo;
import org.eclipse.core.resources.IContainer;
import org.eclipse.core.resources.IProject;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException;
/**
* The abstract base class for all file info matchers. Instances
* of this class are provided using the <tt>org.eclipse.core.resources.filterMatchers</tt>
* extension point.
*
* @since 3.6
*/
public abstract class AbstractFileInfoMatcher {
/**
* Tests the given {@link FileInfo}
*
* @param parent the parent container
* @param fileInfo the {@link FileInfo} object to test
* @return <code>true</code> if the given {@link FileInfo} matches,
* and <code>false</code> otherwise.
* @throws CoreException the implementor should throw a CoreException if,
* in the case that the parent or fileInfo doesn't exist in the workspace
* or in the file system, the return value can't be determined.
*/
public abstract boolean matches(IContainer parent, IFileInfo fileInfo) throws CoreException;
/**
* Sets initialization data for this matcher.
* @param project
* @param arguments
* @throws CoreException if initialization failed
*/
public abstract void initialize(IProject project, Object arguments) throws CoreException;
}