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| package org.apache.ivy.plugins.matcher; |
| |
| /** |
| * An interface that defines a string matcher. |
| */ |
| public interface Matcher { |
| |
| /** |
| * Check whether a given string is matched by this matcher. |
| * |
| * @param input |
| * the string to be matched. Cannot be null. |
| * @return true if the input string is matched, false otherwise. |
| */ |
| boolean matches(/* @NotNull */String input); |
| |
| /** |
| * Return if the matcher will match *only* if the expression equals the input. <i> WARN: This is |
| * used only as a performance trick, to avoid scanning for things when you already know exactly |
| * what you want. In the install task where it used it avoid scanning the repository to list all |
| * modules to find that only one matches, and that it has the name requested. </i> |
| * |
| * @return true if the matcher only matches when the expression is equals to the input, false |
| * otherwise. |
| */ |
| boolean isExact(); |
| } |