IEditorMatchingStrategy (Eclipse Platform API Specification)

```
public interface IEditorMatchingStrategy
```
An editor matching strategy allows editor extensions to provide their own algorithm for matching the input of an open editor of that type to a given editor input. This is used to find a matching editor during IWorkbenchPage.openEditor(IEditorInput, String, boolean) and IWorkbenchPage.findEditor(IEditorInput).

Since:

3.1

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`boolean`	`matches(IEditorReference editorRef, IEditorInput input)`	Returns whether the editor represented by the given editor reference matches the given editor input.

- Method Detail
  - matches
```
boolean matches(IEditorReference editorRef,
                IEditorInput input)
```
    Returns whether the editor represented by the given editor reference matches the given editor input.
    Implementations should inspect the given editor input first, and try to reject it early before calling IEditorReference.getEditorInput(), since that method may be expensive.
    
    Parameters:
    
    editorRef - the editor reference to match against
    
    input - the editor input to match
    
    Returns:
    
    true if the editor matches the given editor input, false if it does not match