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package org.apache.wicket.model;

import org.apache.wicket.Component;
import org.apache.wicket.util.io.IClusterable;

/**
 * Implementations of this interface compare model object. The component is given so that a
 * developer can choose what the previous object is The default implementation for form components
 * is just component.getModelObject(); But developers can choose to keep the last rendered value for
 * that component and compare this value with the newObject. So that it doesn't overwrite values for
 * an object that was changed by another session if the current session didn't touch that specific
 * value.
 * 
 * @author jcompagner
 * @author Jonathan Locke
 * 
 */
public interface IModelComparator extends IClusterable
{
	/**
	 * A model comparator that always returns false
	 */
	IModelComparator ALWAYS_FALSE = (IModelComparator) (component, newObject) -> false;

	/**
	 * @param component
	 *            The component which received the new object
	 * @param newObject
	 *            The newObject
	 * @return True if the previous components object is the same as the newObject.
	 */
	boolean compare(Component component, Object newObject);
}

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 public i

Mark IModelComparator as @FunctionalInterface