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Adapter for document data access from files.

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package com.exasol.adapter.document.documentfetcher.files.segmentation;

import java.util.List;

import com.exasol.adapter.document.documentfetcher.files.RemoteFile;

/**
 * Interface for classes that separates a set of files into multiple segments.
 */
public interface SegmentMatcher {
    /**
     * Matches files that belong to the {@link SegmentDescription} passed to the constructor.
     *
     * @param remoteFile file to match
     * @return List of segments of that file that matched. Empty list if file did not match.
     */
    List getMatchingSegmentsFor(RemoteFile remoteFile);

    /**
     * Get if a given file contains any relevant segment.
     * 
     * @param remoteFile file to match
     * @return {@code true} if the file contains at least one relevant segment
     */
    boolean matchesFile(final RemoteFile remoteFile);
}