@Override
 public FilterResult filter(Object instance) {
   if (instance == null) {
     throw new IllegalArgumentException("instance cannot be null");
   }
   MatcherEvalContext<TypeMetadata, AttributeMetadata, AttributeId> matcherEvalContext =
       matcher.startSingleTypeContext(null, null, instance, metadataAdapter);
   if (matcherEvalContext != null) {
     // once we have a successfully created context we already have a match as there are no filter
     // conditions except for entity type
     return new FilterResultImpl(matcher.convert(instance), null, null);
   }
   return null;
 }