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package org.semanticweb.owlapi.reasoner.knowledgeexploration;

import java.util.Collection;

import javax.annotation.Nonnull;

import org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.OWLClassExpression;
import org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.OWLDataProperty;
import org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.OWLDataRange;
import org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.OWLObjectProperty;
import org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.OWLObjectPropertyExpression;
import org.semanticweb.owlapi.reasoner.Node;
import org.semanticweb.owlapi.reasoner.OWLReasoner;

/** Extension of OWLReasoner to allow access to reasoner completion graph. */
public interface OWLKnowledgeExplorerReasoner extends OWLReasoner {

    /** Interface for a tableaux node. */
    interface RootNode {

        /**
         * @param 
         *        actual node type
         * @return inner node representation
         */
        @Nonnull
         T getNode();
    }

    /**
     * @param expression
     *        the expression of which the completion tree is to be computed
     * @return compute and return the root node of the completion tree for the
     *         expression
     */
    RootNode getRoot(OWLClassExpression expression);

    /**
     * @param node
     *        a node, as returned by either getRoot() or getObjectNeighbours()
     * @param deterministicOnly
     *        true if only deterministic results should be returned
     * @return neighbors by object property
     */
    Node getObjectNeighbours(
            RootNode node, boolean deterministicOnly);

    /**
     * @param node
     *        a node, as returned by either getRoot() or getObjectNeighbours()
     * @param deterministicOnly
     *        true if only deterministic results should be returned
     * @return neighbors by data property
     */
    Node getDataNeighbours(RootNode node,
            boolean deterministicOnly);

    /**
     * @param node
     *        a node, as returned by either getRoot() or getObjectNeighbours()
     * @param property
     *        the property being followed
     * @return neighbors by object property
     */
    Collection getObjectNeighbours(RootNode node,
            OWLObjectProperty property);

    /**
     * @param node
     *        a node, as returned by either getRoot() or getObjectNeighbours()
     * @param property
     *        the property being followed
     * @return neighbors by data property
     */
    Collection getDataNeighbours(RootNode node,
            OWLDataProperty property);

    /**
     * @param node
     *        a node, as returned by either getRoot() or getObjectNeighbours()
     * @param deterministicOnly
     *        true if only deterministic results should be returned
     * @return neighbors label by object property
     */
    Node getObjectLabel(RootNode node,
            boolean deterministicOnly);

    /**
     * @param node
     *        a node, as returned by getDataNeighbours()
     * @param deterministicOnly
     *        true if only deterministic results should be returned
     * @return neighbors label by data property
     */
    Node getDataLabel(RootNode node,
            boolean deterministicOnly);

    /**
     * @param node
     *        a node, as return by either getRoot() or getObjectNeighbours()
     * @return a node that blocks given node, or null if there is no such
     *         blocker
     */
    RootNode getBlocker(RootNode node);
}