<?php
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 * @package    PHPUnit
 * @subpackage Framework
 * @author     Bernhard Schussek <bschussek@2bepublished.at>
 * @copyright  2001-2014 Sebastian Bergmann <sebastian@phpunit.de>
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 * @since      File available since Release 3.6.0
 */

/**
 * Abstract base class for comparators which compare values for equality.
 *
 * @package    PHPUnit
 * @subpackage Framework
 * @author     Bernhard Schussek <bschussek@2bepublished.at>
 * @copyright  2001-2014 Sebastian Bergmann <sebastian@phpunit.de>
 * @license    http://www.opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause  The BSD 3-Clause License
 * @link       http://www.phpunit.de/
 * @since      Class available since Release 3.6.0
 */
abstract class PHPUnit_Framework_Comparator
{
    /**
     * @var PHPUnit_Framework_ComparatorFactory
     */
    protected $factory;

    /**
     * @param PHPUnit_Framework_ComparatorFactory $factory
     */
    public function setFactory(PHPUnit_Framework_ComparatorFactory $factory)
    {
        $this->factory = $factory;
    }

    /**
     * Returns whether the comparator can compare two values.
     *
     * @param  mixed $expected The first value to compare
     * @param  mixed $actual The second value to compare
     * @return boolean
     */
    abstract public function accepts($expected, $actual);

    /**
     * Asserts that two values are equal.
     *
     * @param  mixed $expected The first value to compare
     * @param  mixed $actual The second value to compare
     * @param  float $delta The allowed numerical distance between two values to
     *                      consider them equal
     * @param  bool  $canonicalize If set to TRUE, arrays are sorted before
     *                             comparison
     * @param  bool  $ignoreCase If set to TRUE, upper- and lowercasing is
     *                           ignored when comparing string values
     * @throws PHPUnit_Framework_ComparisonFailure Thrown when the comparison
     *                           fails. Contains information about the
     *                           specific errors that lead to the failure.
     */
    abstract public function assertEquals($expected, $actual, $delta = 0, $canonicalize = FALSE, $ignoreCase = FALSE);
}
