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package com.fitbur.assertj.util.diff;
import java.util.List;
/**
* Copy from https://code.google.com/p/java-diff-utils/.
*
* The general interface for computing diffs between two lists of elements of type T.
*
* @author Dmitry Naumenko
* @param The type of the compared elements in the 'lines'.
*/
public interface DiffAlgorithm {
/**
* Computes the difference between the original sequence and the revised
* sequence and returns it as a {@link Patch} object.
*
* @param original The original sequence. Must not be {@code null}.
* @param revised The revised sequence. Must not be {@code null}.
* @return The patch representing the diff of the given sequences. Never {@code null}.
*/
Patch diff(T[] original, T[] revised);
/**
* Computes the difference between the original sequence and the revised
* sequence and returns it as a {@link Patch} object.
*
* @param original The original sequence. Must not be {@code null}.
* @param revised The revised sequence. Must not be {@code null}.
* @return The patch representing the diff of the given sequences. Never {@code null}.
*/
Patch diff(List original, List revised);
}