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package org.opennms.netmgt.threshd;
/**
* Class used to provide information to ThresholdEntity about the
* threshold evaluators that are available and a way to create
* threshold evaluator state classes.
*
* @author ranger
* @version $Id: $
*/
public interface ThresholdEvaluator {
/**
* <p>supportsType</p>
*
* @param type a {@link java.lang.String} object.
* @return a boolean.
*/
public boolean supportsType(String type);
/**
* <p>getThresholdEvaluatorState</p>
*
* @param threshold a {@link org.opennms.netmgt.threshd.BaseThresholdDefConfigWrapper} object.
* @return a {@link org.opennms.netmgt.threshd.ThresholdEvaluatorState} object.
*/
public ThresholdEvaluatorState getThresholdEvaluatorState(BaseThresholdDefConfigWrapper threshold);
}