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package org.semanticweb.owlapi.model;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

import javax.annotation.Nonnull;

/**
 * @author Matthew Horridge, The University Of Manchester, Bio-Health
 *         Informatics Group
 * @since 2.0.0
 */
public interface OWLNaryClassAxiom extends OWLClassAxiom,
        OWLNaryAxiom, OWLSubClassOfAxiomSetShortCut {

    /**
     * Gets all of the top level class expressions that appear in this axiom.
     * 
     * @return A {@code Set} of class expressions that appear in the axiom.
     */
    @Nonnull
    Set getClassExpressions();

    /**
     * A convenience method that obtains the class expression returned by the
     * {@link #getClassExpressions()} method as a list of class expressions.
     * 
     * @return A list of the class expressions in this axiom.
     */
    @Nonnull
    List getClassExpressionsAsList();

    /**
     * Determines if this class axiom contains the specified class expression as
     * an operand
     * 
     * @param ce
     *        The class expression to test for
     * @return {@code true} if this axiom contains the specified class
     *         expression as an operand, otherwise {@code false}.
     */
    boolean contains(@Nonnull OWLClassExpression ce);

    /**
     * Gets the set of class expressions that appear in this axiom minus the
     * specfied class expressions.
     * 
     * @param desc
     *        The class expressions to subtract from the class expressions in
     *        this axiom
     * @return A set containing all of the class expressions in this axiom (the
     *         class expressions returned by getClassExpressions()) minus the
     *         specified list of class expressions
     */
    @Nonnull
    Set getClassExpressionsMinus(
            @Nonnull OWLClassExpression... desc);
}