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package org.apache.camel.component.netty.http;

/**
 * A matcher used for selecting the correct {@link org.apache.camel.component.netty.http.handlers.HttpServerChannelHandler}
 * to handle an incoming {@link org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpRequest} when you use multiple routes on the same
 * port.
 * <p/>
 * As when we do that, we need to multiplex and select the correct consumer route to process the HTTP request.
 * To do that we need to match on the incoming HTTP request context-path from the request.
 */
public interface ContextPathMatcher {

    /**
     * Whether the target context-path matches.
     *
     * @param target  the context-path from the incoming HTTP request
     * @return <tt>true</tt> to match, <tt>false</tt> if not.
     */
    boolean matches(String target);
}
