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/*
 * Copyright 2019-present Open Networking Foundation
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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package org.onosproject.net.packet;


/**
 * Abstraction of incoming packet classifier for filtering.
 */
public interface PacketInClassifier {

    /**
     * Returns true if the packet classifier matches else false.
     * The matching criterion should be non overlapping with other
     * implementation of the PacketInClassifier.
     *
     * @param packet PacketContext holding the packet information
     * @return boolean checks whether packet matches classifier
     */
    boolean match(PacketContext packet);

}