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package org.apache.kafka.streams.kstream;
import org.apache.kafka.common.annotation.InterfaceStability;
import org.apache.kafka.streams.KeyValue;
/**
* The {@code Predicate} interface represents a predicate (boolean-valued function) of a {@link KeyValue} pair.
* This is a stateless record-by-record operation, i.e, {@link #test(Object, Object)} is invoked individually for each
* record of a stream.
*
* @param <K> key type
* @param <V> value type
* @see KStream#filter(Predicate)
* @see KStream#filterNot(Predicate)
* @see KStream#branch(Predicate[])
* @see KTable#filter(Predicate)
* @see KTable#filterNot(Predicate)
*/
@InterfaceStability.Unstable
public interface Predicate<K, V> {
/**
* Test if the record with the given key and value satisfies the predicate.
*
* @param key the key of the record
* @param value the value of the record
* @return {@code true} if the {@link KeyValue} pair satisfies the predicate—{@code false} otherwise
*/
boolean test(final K key, final V value);
}