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package org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.common;

import java.util.Collection;

/**
 * 

* Implementations of this interface have state that can be periodically refreshed. For example, an * implementation instance might contain some pre-computed information that should be periodically refreshed. * The {@link #refresh(Collection)} method triggers such a refresh. *

* *

* All Taste components implement this. In particular, * {@link org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.recommender.Recommender}s do. Callers may want to call * {@link #refresh(Collection)} periodically to re-compute information throughout the system and bring it up * to date, though this operation may be expensive. *

*/ public interface Refreshable { /** *

* Triggers "refresh" -- whatever that means -- of the implementation. The general contract is that any * {@link Refreshable} should always leave itself in a consistent, operational state, and that the refresh * atomically updates internal state from old to new. *

* * @param alreadyRefreshed * {@link org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.common.Refreshable}s that are known to have already been * refreshed as a result of an initial call to a {#refresh(Collection)} method on some * object. This ensure that objects in a refresh dependency graph aren't refreshed twice * needlessly. */ void refresh(Collection alreadyRefreshed); }




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