com.google.common.base
Interface Predicate<T>

All Known Implementing Classes:

CharMatcher

public interface Predicate<T>

Determines a true or false value for a given input. For example, a RegexPredicate might implement Predicate<String>, and return true for any string that matches its given regular expression.

Implementations which may cause side effects upon evaluation are strongly encouraged to state this fact clearly in their API documentation.

Since:

2 (imported from Google Collections Library)

Author:

Kevin Bourrillion

apply

boolean apply(@Nullable
              T input)

Applies this predicate to the given object.

Parameters:

input - the input that the predicate should act on

Returns:

the value of this predicate when applied to the input t

equals

boolean equals(@Nullable
               Object obj)

Indicates whether some other object is equal to this Predicate. This method can return true only if the specified object is also a Predicate and, for every input object input, it returns exactly the same value. Thus, predicate1.equals(predicate2) implies that either predicate1.apply(input) and predicate2.apply(input) are both true or both false.

Note that it is always safe not to override Object.equals(java.lang.Object).

Overrides:

equals in class Object

Parameters:

obj - the reference object with which to compare.

Returns:

true if this object is the same as the obj argument; false otherwise.

See Also:

Object.hashCode(), HashMap