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package ca.uhn.fhir.mdm.rules.similarity;

import ca.uhn.fhir.context.FhirContext;
import org.hl7.fhir.instance.model.api.IBase;

/**
 * Measure how similar two IBase (resource fields) are to one another.  1.0 means identical.  0.0 means completely different.
 */
public interface IMdmFieldSimilarity {
	double similarity(FhirContext theFhirContext, IBase theLeftBase, IBase theRightBase, boolean theExact);
}