com.bigdata.relation.accesspath

Interface IElementFilter<E>

All Superinterfaces:

IFilterTest, Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

DoNotAddFilter, ExplicitSPOFilter, HistorySPOFilter, InferredSPOFilter, InGraphBinarySearchFilter, InGraphHashSetFilter, NoAxiomFilter, RdfTypeRdfsResourceFilter, SolutionFilter, SPOFilter

public interface IElementFilter<E>
extends IFilterTest, Serializable

Filter for accepting or rejecting visited elements.

Version:

$Id$

Author:

Bryan Thompson

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	canAccept(Object o) Return true iff this this filter can be used on the specified object (filter on the object class).

Methods inherited from interface cutthecrap.utils.striterators.IFilterTest

isValid

Method Detail

canAccept

boolean canAccept(Object o)

Return true iff this this filter can be used on the specified object (filter on the object class).

Note: This was added to make it possible filter out cases where the runtime type system was throwing a ClassCastException in the IFilterTest.isValid(Object) implementation.

Parameters:

o - An object of some type.

Returns:

true if the element can be inspected by this filter.