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/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2010, 2018 Willink Transformations 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
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v20.html
*
* Contributors:
* E.D.Willink - Initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.ocl.pivot.values;
import org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.NonNull;
/**
* The OCLValue interface must be implemented by any datatype for which Java's Object.equals is inappropriate
* when OCL datatype equivalence is required.
*/
public interface OCLValue
{
/**
* Return true if this is an equivalent OCL value to thatValue.
* <p>
* Note that the caller must check that the argument is an OCLValue and should also
* check for the shortcut case that this == thatValue. Implementations are therefore
* wasting time if they re-implement the shortcut.
*/
boolean oclEquals(@NonNull OCLValue thatValue);
int oclHashCode();
}