serf.data
Interface MatcherMerger

All Known Implementing Classes:

BasicMatcherMerger, MatchMergeIgnoreConf, ProductMatcherMerger, SimpleMatcherMerger, YahooMatcherMerger

public interface MatcherMerger

MatcherMerger defines the interface for the match and merge operations. Match and merge functions should obey the following four properties idempotence commutativity associativity representivity See Swoosh: A Generic Approach to Entity Resolution for more information

Method Summary

boolean	match(Record r1, Record r2) Compare records.
Record	merge(Record r1, Record r2) Merge two records into a single record.

Method Detail

match

boolean match(Record r1,
              Record r2)

Compare records. If they match, return true.

Parameters:

r1 - Record 1

r2 - Record 2

Returns:

true if the records match.

merge

Record merge(Record r1,
             Record r2)

Merge two records into a single record. Return the merged record

Parameters:

r1 - Record 1

r2 - Record 2

Returns:

the record resulting from merging Records 1 and 2.