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* Contributors:
* Adrian Colyer Initial implementation
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package org.aspectj.weaver.tools;
/**
* The result of asking a PointcutExpression to match at a shadow (method execution,
* handler, constructor call, and so on).
*
*/
public interface ShadowMatch {
/**
* True iff the pointcut expression will match any join point at this
* shadow (for example, any call to the given method).
*/
boolean alwaysMatches();
/**
* True if the pointcut expression may match some join points at this
* shadow (for example, some calls to the given method may match, depending
* on the type of the caller).
* If alwaysMatches is true, then maybeMatches is always true.
*/
boolean maybeMatches();
/**
* True iff the pointcut expression can never match any join point at this
* shadow (for example, the pointcut will never match a call to the given
* method).
*/
boolean neverMatches();
/**
* Return the result of matching a join point at this shadow with the given
* this, target, and args.
* @param thisObject the object bound to this at the join point
* @param targetObject the object bound to target at the join point
* @param args the arguments at the join point
* @return
*/
JoinPointMatch matchesJoinPoint(Object thisObject, Object targetObject, Object[] args);
/**
* Set a matching context to be used when matching
* join points.
* @see MatchingContext
*/
void setMatchingContext(MatchingContext aMatchContext);
}