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Open-source constraint solver.

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/*
 * This file is part of choco-solver, http://choco-solver.org/
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2020, IMT Atlantique. All rights reserved.
 *
 * Licensed under the BSD 4-clause license.
 *
 * See LICENSE file in the project root for full license information.
 */
package org.chocosolver.solver.objective;

import org.chocosolver.solver.ResolutionPolicy;

import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * interface to monitor bounds.
 *
 * @author Jean-Guillaume Fages, Charles Prud'homme, Arnaud Malapert
 */
public interface IBoundsManager extends Serializable {

    /**
     * @return the ResolutionPolicy of the problem
     */
    ResolutionPolicy getPolicy();

    /**
     * @return true iff the problem is an optimization problem
     */
    default boolean isOptimization() {
        return true;
    }

    /**
     * @return the best lower bound computed so far
     */
    Number getBestLB();

    /**
     * @return the best upper bound computed so far
     */
    Number getBestUB();

    /**
     * States that lb is a global lower bound on the problem
     *
     * @param lb lower bound
     * @return true iff the lower bound has been updated
     */
    boolean updateBestLB(Number lb);

    /**
     * States that ub is a global upper bound on the problem
     *
     * @param ub upper bound
     * @return true iff the upper bound has been updated
     */
    boolean updateBestUB(Number ub);

    /**
     * @return the best solution value found so far (returns the initial bound if no solution has been found yet)
     */
    Number getBestSolutionValue();

    /**
     * Reset best bounds to the initial domain of the objective variables
     */
    default void resetBestBounds(){}
}