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* Copyright (c) 2010 xored software, Inc.
*
* 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
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* xored software, Inc. - initial API and Implementation (Alex Panchenko)
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.dltk.core.search.matching2;
public interface IMatchingPredicate<E> {
/**
* Tests matching of the specified node to this predicate
*
* @param node
* @return match level or <code>null</code> if not matches
*/
MatchLevel match(E node);
/**
* Answers whether this predicate completely contains another predicate.
*
* @since 5.0
*/
public boolean contains(IMatchingPredicate<E> predicate);
/**
* Resolves the potential matching after the node was enhanced with the
* additional information. This method is called for the nodes, for which
* {@link MatchLevel#POSSIBLE_MATCH} was previously returned from
* {@link #match(Object)}.
*
* @since 5.0
*/
MatchLevel resolvePotentialMatch(E node);
}