001    /*
002     *  www.ti.bfh.ch
003     *
004     *  Copyright 2007, Berne University of Applied Sciences, 
005     *  School of Engineering and Information Technology
006     *  and individual contributors as indicated by the @authors tag.
007     *
008     *  This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the 
009     *  GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; 
010     *  either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
011     *
012     *  This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
013     *  without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 
014     *  See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
015     *
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017     *  if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
018     *
019     */
020    package ch.bfh.algo.core;
021    
022    import ch.bfh.algo.BoundaryViolationException;
023    import ch.bfh.algo.EmptySequenceException;
024    import ch.bfh.algo.InvalidAccessorException;
025    import ch.bfh.algo.Position;
026    import ch.bfh.algo.Sequence;
027    import ch.bfh.algo.core.position.PositionListIterator;
028    
029    public interface GenericSequence<E,P extends GenericPosition<E,P>> extends GenericContainer<E,P>, Sequence<E>{
030            
031            public P first() throws EmptySequenceException;
032            public P last() throws EmptySequenceException;
033            public P before(Position<?> position) throws InvalidAccessorException, BoundaryViolationException;
034            public P after(Position<?> position) throws InvalidAccessorException, BoundaryViolationException;
035            public P insertBefore(Position<?> position, E element) throws InvalidAccessorException;
036            public P insertAfter(Position<?> position, E element) throws InvalidAccessorException;
037            public P position(int rank) throws IndexOutOfBoundsException;
038            public PositionListIterator<E,P> positionListIterator();
039            public PositionListIterator<E,P> positionListIterator(int rank) throws IndexOutOfBoundsException;
040            
041    }