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package com.hazelcast.query.impl;
import com.hazelcast.nio.serialization.IdentifiedDataSerializable;
/**
* Defines a contract of objects that are simultaneously {@link Comparable} and
* {@link IdentifiedDataSerializable}.
*
* This contract basically allows to avoid a leakage of the internal
* implementation details to the outside world if a class is required to be
* {@link Comparable} by some of its consumers and {@link
* IdentifiedDataSerializable} by the others.
*
* See {@link AbstractIndex#NULL} and {@link CompositeValue#NEGATIVE_INFINITY}
* for examples.
*/
public interface ComparableIdentifiedDataSerializable extends Comparable, IdentifiedDataSerializable {
}