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package uno.informatics.data;

import java.util.Set;

public interface Data extends SimpleEntity {
    /**
     * Gets the dataset to which this data belongs
     * 
     * @return the dataset to which this data belongs
     */
    public Dataset getDataset();
    
    /**
     * Get the header of an entry by index.
     *
     * @param index of an entry, should be within the range from 0 to n-1, where n is the number of
     *              entries as returned by {@link #getSize()}
     * @return the header of an entry by index
     */
    public SimpleEntity getHeader(int index);
               
    /**
     * Get the number of entries in the data.
     * 
     * @return data size
     */
    public int getSize();

    /**
     * Get the set of all integer IDs corresponding to an item in the data set.
     * 
     * @return set of all IDs
     */
    Set getIDs();
}