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package org.apache.rya.indexing.external.matching;

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

import org.apache.rya.indexing.external.matching.QueryNodesToTupleExpr.TupleExprAndNodes;
import org.eclipse.rdf4j.query.algebra.Filter;
import org.eclipse.rdf4j.query.algebra.QueryModelNode;
import org.eclipse.rdf4j.query.algebra.evaluation.impl.ExternalSet;

/**
 * A QuerySegment represents a subset of a query to be compared to ExternalSets for
 * query matching. The QuerySegment is represented as a List, where the order of
 * the nodes in the list is determined by a Visitor as it traverses the Segment
 * from top down, visiting right children before left.
 *
 * @param  - The type of ExternalSet that will replace a subset of nodes in this segment.
 */
public interface QuerySegment extends Cloneable{

    /**
     *
     * @return - an unordered view of the {@link QueryModelNode}s in the segment
     */
    public Set getUnOrderedNodes();

    /**
     *
     * @return - an ordered view of the {@link QueryModelNode}s in the segment.
     */
    public List getOrderedNodes();

    public Set getFilters();

    /**
     *
     * @param segment
     *            - this method verifies whether the specified segment is
     *            contained in this segment
     * @return - true if contained and false otherwise
     */
    public boolean containsQuerySegment(QuerySegment segment);

    /**
     * Sets List of {@link QueryModelNode}s representing this QuerySegment to
     * specified list
     *
     * @param nodes
     *            - nodes to set
     */
    public void setNodes(List nodes);

    /**
     * @param nodeToReplace
     *            - QuerySegment representation of ExternalSet T to match with
     *            subset of this QuerySegment
     * @param set
     *            - ExternalSet to replace matching QuerySegment nodes if match
     *            occurs
     * @return - true if match occurs and false otherwise
     */
    public boolean replaceWithExternalSet(QuerySegment nodeToReplace, T set);

    public TupleExprAndNodes getQuery();

}