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/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2000, 2010 IBM Corporation, See4sys and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v2.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* https://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/epl-2.0/EPL-2.0.html
*
* Contributors:
* IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
* See4sys - added support for problem markers on model objects (rather than
* only on workspace resources). Unfortunately, there was no other
* choice than copying the whole code from
* org.eclipse.ui.views.markers.internal for that purpose because
* many of the relevant classes, methods, and fields are private or
* package private.
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.sphinx.emf.validation.ui.views;
/**
* Generic filtering interface.
*/
public interface IFilter {
/**
* Filters the list of elements. Removes the elements that need to filtered out from the list.
*
* @param elements
*/
public Object[] filter(Object[] elements);
/**
* @param item
* @return <ul>
* <li><code>true</code> if the item will make it through the filter.</li>
* <li><code>false</code> if the item will not make it through the filter.</li>
* </ul>
*/
public boolean select(Object item);
}