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This geoLatte-geom library offers a geometry model that conforms to the OGC Simple Features for SQL specification.

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/*
 * This file is part of the GeoLatte project.
 *
 *     GeoLatte is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *     it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
 *     the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 *     (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *     GeoLatte is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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 *     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *     GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
 *     You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 *     along with GeoLatte.  If not, see .
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2010 - 2011 and Ownership of code is shared by:
 * Qmino bvba - Romeinsestraat 18 - 3001 Heverlee  (http://www.qmino.com)
 * Geovise bvba - Generaal Eisenhowerlei 9 - 2140 Antwerpen (http://www.geovise.com)
 */

package org.geolatte.geom;

/**
 * A PositionSequence is an ordered sequence of Positions.
 * 
 * 
A PositionSequence is typically used to store the Positions (vertices) that define a
 * curve (a 1-dimensional geometric primitive), with the subtype of the curve specifying the form of interpolation between
 * consecutive Positions. (E.g.a LineString uses linear interpolation between Positions.)
 *
 * @author Karel Maesen, Geovise BVBA, 2011
 */
public interface PositionSequence extends Iterable
 {

    PositionSequence
 clone();

    Class
 getPositionClass();

    PositionFactory
 getPositionFactory();

    /**
     * Returns true iff this PositionSequence contains no Positions
     *
     * @return true iff this PositionSequence contains no Positions
     */
    boolean isEmpty();

    /**
     * Returns the coordinate dimension of this PositionSequence.
     * 

     * 
The coordinate dimension is number of measurements or axes needed to describe Position
     * in the coordinate system associated with this PositionSequence.
     *
     * @return the coordinate dimension of this PositionSequence
     */
    int getCoordinateDimension();

    /**
     * Returns the number of Positions contained in this PositionSequence.
     *
     * @return the number of Positions contained in this PositionSequence.
     */
    int size();

    /**
     * Copies the coordinates at position i into the specified array.
     * @param position the position index to copy
     * @param coordinates the destination array
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the destination array is smaller than the coordiante dimension.
     */
    void getCoordinates(int position, double[] coordinates);

    P getPositionN(int index);

    /**
     * Accepts a PositionVisitor.
     * 
     * 
This instance will pass the visitor to all of its Positions.
     *
     * @param visitor the visitor for this instance's Positions
     */
    void accept(PositionVisitor visitor);

    /**
     * Accepts a LLAPositionVisitor.
     *
     * @param visitor
     */
    void accept(LLAPositionVisitor visitor);

    /**
     * Creates a new PositionSequence with positions in reverse order.
     *
     * @return
     */
    PositionSequence reverse();


}