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    017package org.apache.commons.collections4.sequence;
    018
    019import java.util.List;
    020
    021/**
    022 * This interface is devoted to handle synchronized replacement sequences.
    023 *
    024 * @see ReplacementsFinder
    025 * @since 4.0
    026 */
    027public interface ReplacementsHandler<T> {
    028
    029    /**
    030     * Handle two synchronized sequences.
    031     * <p>
    032     * This method is called by a {@link ReplacementsFinder ReplacementsFinder}
    033     * instance when it has synchronized two sub-sequences of object arrays
    034     * being compared, and at least one of the sequences is non-empty. Since the
    035     * sequences are synchronized, the objects before the two sub-sequences are
    036     * equals (if they exist). This property also holds for the objects after
    037     * the two sub-sequences.
    038     * <p>
    039     * The replacement is defined as replacing the <code>from</code>
    040     * sub-sequence into the <code>to</code> sub-sequence.
    041     *
    042     * @param skipped  number of tokens skipped since the last call (i.e. number of
    043     *   tokens that were in both sequences), this number should be strictly positive
    044     *   except on the very first call where it can be zero (if the first object of
    045     *   the two sequences are different)
    046     * @param from  sub-sequence of objects coming from the first sequence
    047     * @param to  sub-sequence of objects coming from the second sequence
    048     */
    049    void handleReplacement(int skipped, List<T> from, List<T> to);
    050
    051}