com.gemstone.gemfire.internal.lang.Ordered Maven / Gradle / Ivy
Go to download
Show more of this group Show more artifacts with this name
Show all versions of gemfire-core Show documentation
Show all versions of gemfire-core Show documentation
TIBCO ComputeDB store based off Pivotal GemFireXD
/*
* Copyright (c) 2010-2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
*
* 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
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
* implied. See the License for the specific language governing
* permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
* LICENSE file.
*/
package com.gemstone.gemfire.internal.lang;
/**
* The Ordered interface defines a contract for implementing classes who's instances must participate in some type
* of ordered data structure, such as an array or List, or exist in a context where order relative to other
* peer instances matter.
*
* @author John Blum
* @since 6.8
*/
public interface Ordered {
/**
* Gets the order of this instance relative to it's peers.
*
* @return an integer value indicating the order of this instance relative to it's peers.
*/
public int getIndex();
/**
* Sets the order of this instance relative to it's peers.
*
* @param index an integer value specifying the the order of this instance relative to it's peers.
*/
public void setIndex(int index);
}