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2   * SAT4J: a SATisfiability library for Java Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Daniel Le Berre
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19  * Based on the original MiniSat specification from:
20  * 
21  * An extensible SAT solver. Niklas Een and Niklas Sorensson. Proceedings of the
22  * Sixth International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability
23  * Testing, LNCS 2919, pp 502-518, 2003.
24  *
25  * See www.minisat.se for the original solver in C++.
26  * 
27  *******************************************************************************/
28  package org.sat4j.specs;
29  
30  import java.io.Serializable;
31  import java.util.Comparator;
32  import java.util.Iterator;
33  
34  /**
35   * An abstraction on the type of vector used in the library.
36   * 
37   * @author leberre
38   */
39  public interface IVec<T> extends Serializable {
40  	
41      /**
42       * @return the number of elements contained in the vector
43       */
44      int size();
45  
46      /**
47       * Remove nofelems from the Vector. It is assumed that the number of
48       * elements to remove is smaller or equals to the current number of elements
49       * in the vector
50       * 
51       * @param nofelems
52       *            the number of elements to remove.
53       */
54      void shrink(int nofelems);
55  
56      /**
57       * reduce the Vector to exactly newsize elements
58       * 
59       * @param newsize
60       *            the new size of the vector.
61       */
62      void shrinkTo(final int newsize);
63  
64      /**
65       * Pop the last element on the stack. It is assumed that the stack is not
66       * empty!
67       */
68      void pop();
69  
70      void growTo(final int newsize, final T pad);
71  
72      void ensure(final int nsize);
73  
74      IVec<T> push(final T elem);
75  
76      /**
77       * To push an element in the vector when you know you have space for it.
78       * 
79       * @param elem
80       */
81      void unsafePush(T elem);
82  
83      /**
84       * Insert an element at the very begining of the vector. The former first
85       * element is appended to the end of the vector in order to have a constant
86       * time operation.
87       * 
88       * @param elem
89       *            the element to put first in the vector.
90       */
91      void insertFirst(final T elem);
92  
93      void insertFirstWithShifting(final T elem);
94  
95      void clear();
96  
97      /**
98       * return the latest element on the stack. It is assumed that the stack is
99       * not empty!
100      * 
101      * @return the last (top) element on the stack
102      */
103     T last();
104 
105     T get(int i);
106 
107     void set(int i, T o);
108 
109     /**
110      * Enleve un element qui se trouve dans le vecteur!!!
111      * 
112      * @param elem
113      *            un element du vecteur
114      */
115     void remove(T elem);
116 
117     /**
118      * Delete the ith element of the vector. The latest element of the vector
119      * replaces the removed element at the ith indexer.
120      * 
121      * @param i
122      *            the indexer of the element in the vector
123      * @return the former ith element of the vector that is now removed from the
124      *         vector
125      */
126     T delete(int i);
127 
128     /**
129      * Ces operations devraient se faire en temps constant. Ce n'est pas le
130      * cas ici.
131      * 
132      * @param copy
133      */
134     void copyTo(IVec<T> copy);
135 
136     <E> void copyTo(E[] dest);
137 
138     /**
139      * Allow to access the internal representation of the vector as an array.
140      * Note that only the content of index 0 to size() should be taken into
141      * account. USE WITH CAUTION
142      * 
143      * @return the internal representation of the Vector as an array.
144      */
145     T[] toArray();
146 
147     /**
148      * Move the content of the vector into dest. Note that the vector become
149      * empty. The content of the vector is appended to dest.
150      * 
151      * @param dest
152      *            the vector where top put the content of this vector
153      */
154     void moveTo(IVec<T> dest);
155 
156     /**
157      * Move elements inside the vector. The content of the method is equivalent
158      * to: <code>vec[dest] = vec[source]</code>
159      * 
160      * @param dest
161      *            the index of the destination
162      * @param source
163      *            the index of the source
164      */
165     void moveTo(int dest, int source);
166 
167     /*
168      * @param comparator
169      */
170     void sort(Comparator<T> comparator);
171 
172     void sortUnique(Comparator<T> comparator);
173 
174     /**
175      * To know if a vector is empty
176      * 
177      * @return true iff the vector is empty.
178      * @since 1.6
179      */
180     boolean isEmpty();
181     
182     Iterator<T> iterator();
183 }