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package it.unimi.dsi.util;

/*
 * DSI utilities
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2008-2017 Sebastiano Vigna
 *
 *  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 *  under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
 *  Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)
 *  any later version.
 *
 *  This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
 *  WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
 *  or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser General Public License
 *  for more details.
 *
 *  You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 *  along with this program; if not, see .
 *
 */

import it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.objects.Object2LongFunction;
import it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.objects.ObjectList;

import java.io.Serializable;

/** A map from strings to numbers (and possibly vice versa).
 *
 * 
String maps represent mappings from strings (actually, any subclass of {@link CharSequence})
 * to numbers; they can support {@linkplain #list() reverse
 * mapping}, too. The latter has usually sense only if the map is minimal and perfect (e.g., a bijection of a set
 * of string with an initial segment of the natural numbers of the same size). String maps are useful for
 * terms of an MG4J
 * inverted index, URLs of a WebGraph-compressed
 * web snapshot, and so on.
 *
 * 
Warning: the return value of {@link #list()} is a fastutil {@link ObjectList}.
 * This in principle is not sensible, as string maps return longs (they extend
 * {@link Object2LongFunction}), and {@link ObjectList} has only integer index
 * support. If you need long indices, please consider using {@link it.unimi.dsi.big.util.StringMap}.
 *
 * @author Sebastiano Vigna
 * @since 0.2
 */

public interface StringMap extends Object2LongFunction, Serializable {

	/** Returns a list view of the domain of this string map (optional operation).
	 *
	 * 
Note that the list view acts as an inverse of the mapping implemented by this map.
	 *
	 * @return a list view of the domain of this string map, or {@code null} if this map does
	 * not support this operation.
	 */

	ObjectList list();
}