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package org.semanticweb.owlapi.model;

import java.util.Set;

import javax.annotation.Nonnull;

/**
 * Represents an EquivalentClasses axiom in the OWL 2 Specification.
 * 
 * @author Matthew Horridge, The University Of Manchester, Bio-Health
 *         Informatics Group
 * @since 2.0.0
 */
public interface OWLEquivalentClassesAxiom extends OWLNaryClassAxiom {

    /**
     * Determines if this equivalent classes axiom contains at least one named
     * class (excluding owl:Thing or owl:Nothing).
     * 
     * @return {@code true} if the axiom contains at least one named class
     *         otherwise {@code false}. Note that this method will return
     *         {@code false} if the only named classes are owl:Thing or
     *         owl:Nothing.
     */
    boolean containsNamedEquivalentClass();

    /**
     * Gets the named classes (excluding owl:Thing and owl:Nothing) that are in
     * this equivalent classes axiom.
     * 
     * @return A set of classes that represents the named classes that are
     *         specified to be equivalent to some other class (expression),
     *         excluding the built in classes owl:Thing and owl:Nothing
     */
    @Nonnull
    Set getNamedClasses();

    /**
     * Determines if this class axiom makes a class expression equivalent to
     * nothing.
     * 
     * @return {@code true} if this axiom contains owl:Nothing as an equivalent
     *         class.
     */
    boolean containsOWLNothing();

    /**
     * Determines if this class axiom makes a class expression equivalent to
     * thing.
     * 
     * @return {@code true} if this axioms contains owl:Thing as an equivalent
     *         class.
     */
    boolean containsOWLThing();

    @Nonnull
    @Override
    Set asPairwiseAxioms();

    @Override
    @Nonnull
    Set splitToAnnotatedPairs();

    @Nonnull
    @Override
    OWLEquivalentClassesAxiom getAxiomWithoutAnnotations();
}