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Core building blocks and API for the Metal library.

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/*
 * Copyright 2013-2016 Netherlands Forensic Institute
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
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 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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package io.parsingdata.metal;

/**
 * Implements the concept of a trampoline, a mechanism that encodes a tail
 * recursive call into a lambda, which can then be returned (unwinding the
 * stack) and invoked. There is still some mutable local state in the
 * {@link #computeResult()} method required to perform the iteration, but the
 * client code can be fully immutable as a result.
 */
public interface Trampoline {

    T result();
    boolean hasNext();
    Trampoline next();

    default T computeResult() {
        Trampoline current = this;
        while (current.hasNext()) {
            current = current.next();
        }
        return current.result();
    }

    static  Trampoline complete(final CompletedTrampoline completedTrampoline) {
        return completedTrampoline;
    }

    @FunctionalInterface
    interface CompletedTrampoline extends Trampoline {

        default boolean hasNext() {
            return false;
        }

        default Trampoline next() {
            throw new UnsupportedOperationException("A CompletedTrampoline does not have a next computation.");
        }

    }

    static  Trampoline intermediate(final IntermediateTrampoline intermediateTrampoline) {
        return intermediateTrampoline;
    }

    @FunctionalInterface
    interface IntermediateTrampoline extends Trampoline {

        default T result() {
            throw new UnsupportedOperationException("An IntermediateTrampoline does not have a result.");
        }

        default boolean hasNext() {
            return true;
        }

    }

}