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package com.gemstone.gemfire.internal.concurrent;

/**
 * These methods are the same ones on
 * the JDK 5 version java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean.
 * @see CFactory
 * @author darrel
 * @deprecated used AtomicBoolean instead
 */
public interface AB {
  /**
   * Returns the current value.
   *
   * @return the current value
   */
  public boolean get();

  /**
   * Atomically sets the value to the given updated value
   * if the current value {@code ==} the expected value.
   *
   * @param expect the expected value
   * @param update the new value
   * @return true if successful. False return indicates that
   * the actual value was not equal to the expected value.
   */
  public boolean compareAndSet(boolean expect, boolean update);

  /**
   * Atomically sets the value to the given updated value
   * if the current value {@code ==} the expected value.
   *
   * May fail spuriously
   * and does not provide ordering guarantees, so is only rarely an
   * appropriate alternative to {@code compareAndSet}.
   *
   * @param expect the expected value
   * @param update the new value
   * @return true if successful.
   */
  public boolean weakCompareAndSet(boolean expect, boolean update);

  /**
   * Unconditionally sets to the given value.
   *
   * @param newValue the new value
   */
  public void set(boolean newValue);

  /**
   * Atomically sets to the given value and returns the previous value.
   *
   * @param newValue the new value
   * @return the previous value
   */
  public boolean getAndSet(boolean newValue);
}