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namespace Hamcrest\Number;

/*
 Copyright (c) 2009 hamcrest.org
 */

use Hamcrest\Description;
use Hamcrest\TypeSafeMatcher;

class OrderingComparison extends TypeSafeMatcher
{

    private $_value;
    private $_minCompare;
    private $_maxCompare;

    public function __construct($value, $minCompare, $maxCompare)
    {
        parent::__construct(self::TYPE_NUMERIC);

        $this-&gt;_value = $value;
        $this-&gt;_minCompare = $minCompare;
        $this-&gt;_maxCompare = $maxCompare;
    }

    protected function matchesSafely($other)
    {
        $compare = $this-&gt;_compare($this-&gt;_value, $other);

        return ($this-&gt;_minCompare &lt;= $compare) &amp;&amp; ($compare &lt;= $this-&gt;_maxCompare);
    }

    protected function describeMismatchSafely($item, Description $mismatchDescription)
    {
        $mismatchDescription
            -&gt;appendValue($item)-&gt;appendText(' was ')
            -&gt;appendText($this-&gt;_comparison($this-&gt;_compare($this-&gt;_value, $item)))
            -&gt;appendText(' ')-&gt;appendValue($this-&gt;_value)
            ;
    }

    public function describeTo(Description $description)
    {
        $description-&gt;appendText('a value ')
            -&gt;appendText($this-&gt;_comparison($this-&gt;_minCompare))
            ;
        if ($this-&gt;_minCompare != $this-&gt;_maxCompare) {
            $description-&gt;appendText(' or ')
                -&gt;appendText($this-&gt;_comparison($this-&gt;_maxCompare))
                ;
        }
        $description-&gt;appendText(' ')-&gt;appendValue($this-&gt;_value);
    }

    /**
     * The value is not &gt; $value, nor &lt; $value.
     *
     * @factory
     */
    public static function comparesEqualTo($value)
    {
        return new self($value, 0, 0);
    }

    /**
     * The value is &gt; $value.
     *
     * @factory
     */
    public static function greaterThan($value)
    {
        return new self($value, -1, -1);
    }

    /**
     * The value is &gt;= $value.
     *
     * @factory atLeast
     */
    public static function greaterThanOrEqualTo($value)
    {
        return new self($value, -1, 0);
    }

    /**
     * The value is &lt; $value.
     *
     * @factory
     */
    public static function lessThan($value)
    {
        return new self($value, 1, 1);
    }

    /**
     * The value is &lt;= $value.
     *
     * @factory atMost
     */
    public static function lessThanOrEqualTo($value)
    {
        return new self($value, 0, 1);
    }

    // -- Private Methods

    private function _compare($left, $right)
    {
        $a = $left;
        $b = $right;

        if ($a &lt; $b) {
            return -1;
        } elseif ($a == $b) {
            return 0;
        } else {
            return 1;
        }
    }

    private function _comparison($compare)
    {
        if ($compare &gt; 0) {
            return 'less than';
        } elseif ($compare == 0) {
            return 'equal to';
        } else {
            return 'greater than';
        }
    }
}
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