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package org.apache.metron.stellar.common.evaluators;
import org.apache.metron.stellar.dsl.Token;
import org.apache.metron.stellar.common.generated.StellarParser;
/**
* This is used to determine what is needed to evaluate a Stellar comparison expression. A Stellar comparison
* expression is an expression that uses operators such as {@literal '<', '<=', '>', '>=', '==', '!=' } to compare
* values in Stellar. There are two main types of comparisons in Stellar,
* {@literal equality ('==', '!=') and comparison ('<', '<=', '>', '>='). }
*/
public interface ComparisonExpressionEvaluator {
/**
* This will compare the values of {@code left} and {@code right} using the {@code op} input to determine a value
* to return.
* @param left The token representing the left side of a comparison expression.
* @param right The token representing the right side of a comparison expression.
* @param op This is a representation of a comparison operator {@literal (eg. <, <=, >, >=, ==, !=) }
* @return True if the expression is evaluated to be true, otherwise false. An example of expressions that
* should be true are {@code 1 == 1}, {@code 1f > 0}, etc.
*/
boolean evaluate(Token<?> left, Token<?> right, StellarParser.ComparisonOpContext op);
}