01: /*
02: * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
03: * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
04: * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
05: * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
06: * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
07: * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
08: *
09: * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
10: *
11: * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
12: * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
13: * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
14: * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
15: * limitations under the License.
16: */
17:
18: package java.io;
19:
20: /**
21: * FileFilter is an interface for filtering abstract Files
22: */
23: public abstract interface FileFilter {
24:
25: /**
26: * Answers a boolean indicating whether or not a specific File should be
27: * included in a pathname list.
28: *
29: * @param pathname
30: * the abstract File to check.
31: * @return <code>true</code> if the File should be includes,
32: * <code>false</code> otherwise.
33: */
34: public abstract boolean accept(File pathname);
35: }
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