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package com.helger.commons.functional;
import javax.annotation.Nonnull;
import com.helger.commons.ValueEnforcer;
/**
* Represents a predicate (char-valued function) of one {@code char}-valued
* argument. This is the {@code char}-consuming primitive type specialization of
* {@link java.util.function.Predicate}.
*
* This is a functional interface whose
* functional method is {@link #test(char)}.
*
* @see java.util.function.Predicate
* @since 9.0.0
*/
@FunctionalInterface
public interface ICharPredicate
{
/**
* Evaluates this predicate on the given argument.
*
* @param cValue
* the input argument
* @return {@code true} if the input argument matches the predicate, otherwise
* {@code false}
*/
boolean test (char cValue);
/**
* Returns a predicate that represents the logical negation of this predicate.
*
* @return a predicate that represents the logical negation of this predicate
*/
@Nonnull
default ICharPredicate negate ()
{
return x -> !test (x);
}
/**
* Returns a composed predicate that represents a short-circuiting logical AND
* of this predicate and another. When evaluating the composed predicate, if
* this predicate is {@code false}, then the {@code other} predicate is not
* evaluated.
*
* Any exceptions thrown during evaluation of either predicate are relayed to
* the caller; if evaluation of this predicate throws an exception, the
* {@code other} predicate will not be evaluated.
*
* @param aOther
* a predicate that will be logically-ANDed with this predicate
* @return a composed predicate that represents the short-circuiting logical
* AND of this predicate and the {@code other} predicate
* @throws NullPointerException
* if other is null
*/
@Nonnull
default ICharPredicate and (@Nonnull final ICharPredicate aOther)
{
ValueEnforcer.notNull (aOther, "Other");
return x -> test (x) && aOther.test (x);
}
/**
* Returns a composed predicate that represents a short-circuiting logical OR
* of this predicate and another. When evaluating the composed predicate, if
* this predicate is {@code true}, then the {@code other} predicate is not
* evaluated.
*
* Any exceptions thrown during evaluation of either predicate are relayed to
* the caller; if evaluation of this predicate throws an exception, the
* {@code other} predicate will not be evaluated.
*
* @param aOther
* a predicate that will be logically-ORed with this predicate
* @return a composed predicate that represents the short-circuiting logical
* OR of this predicate and the {@code other} predicate
* @throws NullPointerException
* if other is null
*/
@Nonnull
default ICharPredicate or (@Nonnull final ICharPredicate aOther)
{
ValueEnforcer.notNull (aOther, "Other");
return x -> test (x) || aOther.test (x);
}
}