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package com.sun.xml.internal.ws.policy;
/**
* This interface defines method that is used to handle actual equality comparison and hash code generation for PolicyMapKey object.
* <p/>
* The different implementations of this interface may allow different strategies to be applied for operations mentioned above. This feature
* is used within {@link WSPolicyMap} to restrict set of fields to be compared when searching different policy scope maps.
*
*
*
* @author Marek Potociar
*/
interface PolicyMapKeyHandler {
boolean areEqual(PolicyMapKey locator1, PolicyMapKey locator2);
int generateHashCode(PolicyMapKey locator);
}