/*****************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2011 Atos
*
*
* 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:
* Mathieu Velten (Atos) mathieu.velten@atos.net - Initial API and implementation
* Philippe Roland (Atos) philippe.roland@atos.net - Initial API and implementation
*
*****************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.papyrus.views.modelexplorer.matching;
/**
* This interface is only useful to create a fake item
* to match an existing facet item in a facet viewer.
* To do that each implementation mimics the behavior of the equals and hashCode methods
* of the corresponding items.
*
* @author mvelten
* @author proland
*
*/
public interface IMatchingItem {
/**
* Mimics the corresponding class's equals method
*
* @param obj
* the object to match
* @return true if the match is successful
*/
public boolean matchingItemEquals(Object obj);
/**
* Mimics the corresponding class's hashcode method
*
* @return the hashcode
*/
public int matchingItemHashcode();
}