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    017package org.apache.commons.collections4.sequence;
    018
    019/**
    020 * This interface should be implemented by user object to walk
    021 * through {@link EditScript EditScript} objects.
    022 * <p>
    023 * Users should implement this interface in order to walk through
    024 * the {@link EditScript EditScript} object created by the comparison
    025 * of two sequences. This is a direct application of the visitor
    026 * design pattern. The {@link EditScript#visit EditScript.visit}
    027 * method takes an object implementing this interface as an argument,
    028 * it will perform the loop over all commands in the script and the
    029 * proper methods of the user class will be called as the commands are
    030 * encountered.
    031 * <p>
    032 * The implementation of the user visitor class will depend on the
    033 * need. Here are two examples.
    034 * <p>
    035 * The first example is a visitor that build the longest common
    036 * subsequence:
    037 * <pre>
    038 * import org.apache.commons.collections4.comparators.sequence.CommandVisitor;
    039 *
    040 * import java.util.ArrayList;
    041 *
    042 * public class LongestCommonSubSequence implements CommandVisitor {
    043 *
    044 *   public LongestCommonSubSequence() {
    045 *     a = new ArrayList();
    046 *   }
    047 *
    048 *   public void visitInsertCommand(Object object) {
    049 *   }
    050 *
    051 *   public void visitKeepCommand(Object object) {
    052 *     a.add(object);
    053 *   }
    054 *
    055 *   public void visitDeleteCommand(Object object) {
    056 *   }
    057 *
    058 *   public Object[] getSubSequence() {
    059 *     return a.toArray();
    060 *   }
    061 *
    062 *   private ArrayList a;
    063 *
    064 * }
    065 * </pre>
    066 * <p>
    067 * The second example is a visitor that shows the commands and the way
    068 * they transform the first sequence into the second one:
    069 * <pre>
    070 * import org.apache.commons.collections4.comparators.sequence.CommandVisitor;
    071 *
    072 * import java.util.Arrays;
    073 * import java.util.ArrayList;
    074 * import java.util.Iterator;
    075 *
    076 * public class ShowVisitor implements CommandVisitor {
    077 *
    078 *   public ShowVisitor(Object[] sequence1) {
    079 *     v = new ArrayList();
    080 *     v.addAll(Arrays.asList(sequence1));
    081 *     index = 0;
    082 *   }
    083 *
    084 *   public void visitInsertCommand(Object object) {
    085 *     v.insertElementAt(object, index++);
    086 *     display("insert", object);
    087 *   }
    088 *
    089 *   public void visitKeepCommand(Object object) {
    090 *     ++index;
    091 *     display("keep  ", object);
    092 *   }
    093 *
    094 *   public void visitDeleteCommand(Object object) {
    095 *     v.remove(index);
    096 *     display("delete", object);
    097 *   }
    098 *
    099 *   private void display(String commandName, Object object) {
    100 *     System.out.println(commandName + " " + object + " -&gt;" + this);
    101 *   }
    102 *
    103 *   public String toString() {
    104 *     StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
    105 *     for (Iterator iter = v.iterator(); iter.hasNext();) {
    106 *       buffer.append(' ').append(iter.next());
    107 *     }
    108 *     return buffer.toString();
    109 *   }
    110 *
    111 *   private ArrayList v;
    112 *   private int index;
    113 *
    114 * }
    115 * </pre>
    116 *
    117 * @since 4.0
    118 */
    119public interface CommandVisitor<T> {
    120
    121    /**
    122     * Method called when an insert command is encountered.
    123     *
    124     * @param object object to insert (this object comes from the second sequence)
    125     */
    126    void visitInsertCommand(T object);
    127
    128    /**
    129     * Method called when a keep command is encountered.
    130     *
    131     * @param object object to keep (this object comes from the first sequence)
    132     */
    133    void visitKeepCommand(T object);
    134
    135    /**
    136     * Method called when a delete command is encountered.
    137     *
    138     * @param object object to delete (this object comes from the first sequence)
    139     */
    140    void visitDeleteCommand(T object);
    141
    142}