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/* Object/Reference-only definitions (values) */
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* Copyright (C) 2002-2016 Sebastiano Vigna
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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*
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package it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.objects;
import java.util.Collection;
/**
* A type-specific {@link Collection}; provides some additional methods that use
* polymorphism to avoid (un)boxing.
*
*
* Additionally, this class defines strengthens (again) {@link #iterator()} and
* defines a slightly different semantics for {@link #toArray(Object[])}.
*
* @see Collection
*/
public interface ObjectCollection extends Collection, ObjectIterable {
/**
* Returns a type-specific iterator on the elements of this collection.
*
*
* Note that this specification strengthens the one given in
* {@link Iterable#iterator()}, which was already strengthened in
* the corresponding type-specific class, but was weakened by the fact that
* this interface extends {@link Collection}.
*
* @return a type-specific iterator on the elements of this collection.
*/
ObjectIterator iterator();
/**
* Returns a type-specific iterator on this elements of this collection.
*
* @see #iterator()
* @deprecated As of fastutil 5, replaced by
* {@link #iterator()}.
*/
@Deprecated
ObjectIterator objectIterator();
/**
* Returns an containing the items of this collection; the runtime type of
* the returned array is that of the specified array.
*
*
* Warning: Note that, contrarily to
* {@link Collection#toArray(Object[])}, this methods just writes all
* elements of this collection: no special value will be added after the
* last one.
*
* @param a
* if this array is big enough, it will be used to store this
* collection.
* @return a primitive type array containing the items of this collection.
* @see Collection#toArray(Object[])
*/
T[] toArray(T[] a);
}