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package de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.database.ids;

/*
 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/>.
 */

/**
 * Interface for a generic modifiable DBID collection.
 * 
 * Note: we had this use the Java Collections API for a long time, however this
 * prevented certain optimizations. So it now only mimics the Collections API
 * <em>deliberately</em>.
 * 
 * @author Erich Schubert
 * 
 * @apiviz.has DBIDMIter
 */
public interface ModifiableDBIDs extends DBIDs {
  /**
   * Add DBIDs to collection.
   * 
   * @param ids IDs to add.
   * @return {@code true} when modified
   */
  boolean addDBIDs(DBIDs ids);

  /**
   * Remove DBIDs from collection.
   * 
   * @param ids IDs to remove.
   * @return {@code true} when modified
   */
  boolean removeDBIDs(DBIDs ids);

  /**
   * Add a single DBID to the collection.
   * 
   * @param id ID to add
   */
  boolean add(DBIDRef id);

  /**
   * Remove a single DBID from the collection.
   * 
   * @param id ID to remove
   */
  boolean remove(DBIDRef id);

  /**
   * Clear this collection.
   */
  void clear();

  /**
   * Get a <em>modifiable</em> DBID iterator (a more efficient API).
   * 
   * usage example:
   * 
   * <pre>
   * {@code
   * for(DBIDMIter iter = ids.iter(); iter.valid(); iter.advance()) {
   *   DBID id = iter.getDBID();
   *   iter.remove();
   * }
   * }
   * </pre>
   * 
   * @return modifiable iterator
   */
  @Override
  DBIDMIter iter();
}