package de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.visualization.style;

import de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.database.ids.DBID;

/*
 This file is part of ELKI:
 Environment for Developing KDD-Applications Supported by Index-Structures

 Copyright (C) 2012
 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
 Lehr- und Forschungseinheit für Datenbanksysteme
 ELKI Development Team

 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.

 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

 You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
 along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */

/**
 * Styling policy.
 * 
 * Implementations <em>must</em> implement either {@link ClassStylingPolicy} or
 * {@link SingleObjectsStylingPolicy} interfaces, as most visualizers will only
 * support these known interfaces.
 * 
 * @author Erich Schubert
 */
public interface StylingPolicy {
  /**
   * Get the color for an individual object.
   * 
   * Note: if possible, use a class styling policy which can optimize better.
   * 
   * @param id Object ID
   * @return Color value
   */
  public int getColorForDBID(DBID id);
}