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package org.semanticweb.elk.owl;

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import java.util.ArrayList;

import org.semanticweb.elk.owl.interfaces.ElkAxiom;
import org.semanticweb.elk.owl.visitors.ElkAxiomProcessor;

/**
 * Simple {@link ElkAxiomProcessor} that merely buffers axioms to send them to
 * another processor later on. This is useful for performance measurements, in
 * particular for decoupling parsing time from indexing time. It can also be
 * used for re-using the same set of axioms in more than one place without
 * having to re-parse them again.
 * 
 * @author Markus Kroetzsch
 */
public class ElkAxiomBuffer implements ElkAxiomProcessor {

	final protected ArrayList axioms = new ArrayList();

	@Override
	public void visit(ElkAxiom elkAxiom) {
		axioms.add(elkAxiom);
	}

	/**
	 * Send all axioms that have hitherto been processed by this object to the
	 * given axiom processor.
	 * 
	 * @param elkAxiomProcessor
	 */
	public void sendAxiomsToProcessor(ElkAxiomProcessor elkAxiomProcessor) {
		for (ElkAxiom elkAxiom : axioms) {
			elkAxiomProcessor.visit(elkAxiom);
		}
	}

}