TripleBoundary.java

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package org.apache.jena.graph;

/**
     An interface for expressing a stopping condition on triples, such as in 
     sub-graph extraction.
  */
public interface TripleBoundary
    {
    /**
         Answer true if this triple is a stopping triple, and whatever search is using
         this interface should proceed no further.
    */
    boolean stopAt( Triple t );
    
    /**
         A TripleBoundary without limits - stopAt always returns false.
    */
    public static final TripleBoundary stopNowhere = new TripleBoundary()
        { @Override
        public boolean stopAt( Triple t ) { return false; } };
    
    /**
        A TripleBoundary that stops at triples with anonymous objects.
    */
    public static final TripleBoundary stopAtAnonObject = new TripleBoundary()
        { @Override
        public boolean stopAt( Triple t ) { return t.getObject().isBlank(); } };

    }