StringSet.java

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package org.waveprotocol.wave.model.util;

/**
 * A read-write interface to a set of strings.
 *
 * We define this in favor of using a standard Java collections interface
 * so that we can write an optimized implementation for GWT.
 *
 * Null is not permitted as a value. All methods, even {@link #contains(String)}
 * will throw an exception for null values.
 *
 * @author ohler@google.com (Christian Ohler)
 */
public interface StringSet extends ReadableStringSet {

  /**
   * A function that accepts a String and returns a boolean.
   */
  public interface StringPredicate {
    boolean apply(String x);
  }

  /**
   * @param s must not be null
   * Adds s to the set.  If s is already in the set, does nothing.
   */
  void add(String s);

  /**
   * Removes s from the set.  If s is not in the set, does nothing.
   */
  void remove(String s);

  /**
   * Removes all strings from the set.
   */
  void clear();

  /**
   * Equivalent to calling add(s) for every s in stringsToAdd.
   */
  void addAll(ReadableStringSet stringsToAdd);

  /**
   * Equivalent to calling remove(s) for every s in stringsToRemove.
   */
  void removeAll(ReadableStringSet stringsToRemove);

  /**
   * Call the predicate for each entry in the set, in undefined order.
   * If the predicate returns false, the entry is removed from the
   * set; if it returns true, it remains.
   */
  void filter(StringPredicate filter);
}