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package de.learnlib.api.oracle;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;

import de.learnlib.api.oracle.parallelism.BatchProcessor;
import de.learnlib.api.query.DefaultQuery;
import de.learnlib.api.query.Query;
import net.automatalib.words.Word;

/**
 * Membership oracle interface. A membership oracle provides an elementary abstraction to a System Under Learning (SUL),
 * by allowing to pose {@link Query queries}: A query is a sequence of input symbols (divided into a prefix and a suffix
 * part, cf. {@link Query#getPrefix()} and {@link Query#getSuffix()}, in reaction to which the SUL produces a specific
 * observable behavior (outputting a word, acceptance/rejection etc.).
 *
 * @author Malte Isberner
 * @author Maik Merten
 * @see DefaultQuery
 */
public interface MembershipOracle extends QueryAnswerer, BatchProcessor> {

    @Override
    default D answerQuery(Word input) {
        return answerQuery(Word.epsilon(), input);
    }

    @Override
    default D answerQuery(Word prefix, Word suffix) {
        DefaultQuery query = new DefaultQuery<>(prefix, suffix);
        processQuery(query);
        return query.getOutput();
    }

    /**
     * Processes a single query. When this method returns, the {@link Query#answer(Object)} method of the supplied
     * object will have been called with an argument reflecting the SUL response to the respective query.
     * 
     * The default implementation of this method will simply wrap the provided {@link Query} in a singleton {@link
     * Collection} using {@link Collections#singleton(Object)}. Implementations in subclasses should override this
     * method to circumvent the Collection object creation, if possible.
     *
     * @param query
     *         the query to process
     */
    default void processQuery(Query query) {
        processQueries(Collections.singleton(query));
    }

    /**
     * Processes the specified collection of queries. When this method returns, each of the contained queries {@link
     * Query#answer(Object)} method should have been called with an argument reflecting the SUL response to the
     * respective query.
     *
     * @param queries
     *         the queries to process
     *
     * @see Query#answer(Object)
     */
    void processQueries(Collection> queries);

    @Override
    default MembershipOracle asOracle() {
        return this;
    }

    @Override
    default void processBatch(Collection> batch) {
        processQueries(batch);
    }

    interface DFAMembershipOracle extends MembershipOracle {}

    /**
     * A specialization of the {@link MembershipOracle} that binds the output domain to {@link Word}s of the specified
     * output type. Queries should be answered according to the Mealy output semantics (transition-based). This means an
     * input sequence of length {@code n} results in an output word of length {@code n}.
     *
     * @param 
     *         input symbol type
     * @param 
     *         output symbol type
     */
    interface MealyMembershipOracle extends MembershipOracle> {}

}