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package com.sun.xml.internal.ws.policy;


This interface defines method that is used to handle actual equality comparison and hash code generation for PolicyMapKey object.
 The different implementations of this interface may allow different strategies to be applied for operations mentioned above. This feature is used within WSPolicyMap to restrict set of fields to be compared when searching different policy scope maps. 
Author:
Marek Potociar/**
 * This interface defines method that is used to handle actual equality comparison and hash code generation for PolicyMapKey object.
 * <p/>
 * The different implementations of this interface may allow different strategies to be applied for operations mentioned above. This feature
 * is used within {@link WSPolicyMap} to restrict set of fields to be compared when searching different policy scope maps.
 *
 *
 *
 * @author Marek Potociar
 */
interface PolicyMapKeyHandler {
    boolean areEqual(PolicyMapKey locator1, PolicyMapKey locator2);

    int generateHashCode(PolicyMapKey locator);
}