TypePatternMatcher (Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0.0.GA public API)

All Known Subinterfaces:

ExtractingTypePatternMatcher
```
public interface TypePatternMatcher
```
A pattern-matching implementation for generic types.
For example, such a pattern could be described with the expression Collection<?>, which would only match against Collection and its subclasses.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Default Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`default TypePatternMatcher`	`and(TypePatternMatcher other)`
`boolean`	`matches(PojoTypeModel<?> typeToInspect)`	Attempts to match a given type against this pattern, and return the result as a `boolean`.
`default TypePatternMatcher`	`negate()`

- Method Detail
  - matches
```
boolean matches(PojoTypeModel<?> typeToInspect)
```
    Attempts to match a given type against this pattern, and return the result as a boolean.
    
    Parameters:
    
    typeToInspect - A type that may, or may not, match the pattern.
    
    Returns:
    
    true in the event of a match, false otherwise.
  - negate
```
default TypePatternMatcher negate()
```
  - and
```
default TypePatternMatcher and(TypePatternMatcher other)
```