Paul Holmes-Higgin 31c250682b Changed licence headers
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/*
* Copyright (C) 2005 Alfresco, Inc.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
* of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
*/
package org.alfresco.service.namespace;
/**
* Provides pattern matching against {@link org.alfresco.service.namespace.QName qnames}.
* <p>
* Implementations will use different mechanisms to match against the
* {@link org.alfresco.service.namespace.QName#getNamespaceURI() namespace} and
* {@link org.alfresco.service.namespace.QName#getLocalName()() localname}.
*
* @see org.alfresco.service.namespace.QName
*
* @author Derek Hulley
*/
public interface QNamePattern
{
/**
* Checks if the given qualified name matches the pattern represented
* by this instance
*
* @param qname the instance to check
* @return Returns true if the qname matches this pattern
*/
public boolean isMatch(QName qname);
}