openaz-pep/src/main/java/org/apache/openaz/pepapi/Matchable.java

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package org.apache.openaz.pepapi;

/**
 * Interface that abstracts an object that can be matched. Concrete implementations provide a match()
 * function.
 *
 * @param <T>
 */
public interface Matchable<T> {

    /**
     * Returns a boolean result after matching the given Object
     *
     * @param t
     * @return a <code>boolean</code> value
     */
    boolean match(T t);

}