/** * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package org.apache.avro.generic; import java.util.List; /** Array that permits reuse of contained elements. */ public interface GenericArray<T> extends List<T>, GenericContainer { /** The current content of the location where {@link #add(Object)} would next * store an element, if any. This permits reuse of arrays and their elements * without allocating new objects. */ T peek(); /** Reverses the order of the elements in this array. */ void reverse(); }