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package org.apache.gobblin.data.management.copy.hive;

import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Partition;


/**
 * The {@link org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.IMetaStoreClient} provides `listPartitionsByFilter` method which
 * contains a String-type filter parameter. Given the fact that this filter is limited on simple arithmetic filtering
 * on partition column, the {@link HivePartitionExtendedFilter} interface extends the semantics of partition filters.
 * One example is that you can filter partitions based on the partition location.
 */
public interface HivePartitionExtendedFilter {

  /**
   * @return If a partition should be accepted or not.
   */
  public boolean accept(Partition partition);
}
