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package org.springframework.binding.expression;

/**
 * Evaluates a single parsed expression on the provided input object in the specified context. This provides a common
 * abstraction for expression evaluation independent of any language like OGNL or Spring's BeanWrapper.
 * 
 * @author Keith Donald
 */
public interface Expression {

	/**
	 * Evaluate the expression encapsulated by this evaluator against the provided target object and return the result
	 * of the evaluation.
	 * @param target the target of the expression
	 * @param context the expression evaluation context
	 * @return the evaluation result
	 * @throws EvaluationException an exception occured during evaluation
	 */
	public Object evaluate(Object target, EvaluationContext context) throws EvaluationException;
}