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Interface Predicate

All Known Implementing Classes:

Compare, Contains, Query.Compare

public interface Predicate

A general interface for all enumerations that represent comparable operations.

Author:

Marko A. Rodriguez (http://markorodriguez.com), Matthias Broecheler (me@matthiasb.com)

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	evaluate(Object first, Object second) If the underlying graph does not support the push-down predicate, then an in-memory evaluation can be done.

Method Detail

evaluate

boolean evaluate(Object first,
               Object second)

If the underlying graph does not support the push-down predicate, then an in-memory evaluation can be done.

Parameters:

first - the left hand side of the predicate

second - the right hand side of the predicate

Returns:

the truth of the predicate given the two arguments