metadataquery.java

适合初学者使用的cms和jxta方面的代码

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 * $Id: MetadataQuery.java,v 1.2 2002/02/13 23:10:20 rmjohnson Exp $
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package net.jxta.share.metadata;

/**An interface for creating classes that can be used to query ContentMetadata
 * objects.
 *@author $Author: rmjohnson $
 *@version $Revision: 1.2 $
 */
public interface MetadataQuery {
    /**Query a ContentMetadata object using this MetadataQuery object
     *@return an integer representing the degree to which <code>metadata</code>
     * matches this query, where <code>Integer.MAX_VALUE</code> indicates a
     * perfect match, and <code>Integer.MIN_VALUE</code>, a non-match.
     *@exception IllegalArgumentException if <code>metadata</code> is of a
     * class which this MetadataQuery is incapable of handling, or is null.
     */
    public int queryMetadata(ContentMetadata metadata)
	throws IllegalArgumentException;
}