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This is the core Apache Tika™ toolkit library from which all other modules inherit functionality. It also includes the core facades for the Tika API.

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package org.apache.tika.mime;

import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * Defines a clause to be evaluated.
 */
interface Clause extends Serializable {

    /**
     * Evaluates this clause with the specified chunk of data.
     */
    boolean eval(byte[] data);

    /**
     * Returns the size of this clause. The size of a clause is the number of
     * chars it is composed of.
     */
    int size();

}