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package com.senseidb.indexing.activity;
/**
* Wraps an a List and also provides file persistence support
*
*/
public interface ActivityValues {
public void init(int capacity);
/**
* @param index
* @param value
* @return true, if its advisable to flush changes to disk
*/
public boolean update(int index, Object value);
/**
* Deletes the corresponding element
* @param index
*/
public void delete(int index);
/**
* @return runnable that will flush all pending changes on disk. Runnable is not threadsafe and needs to be executed in the same thread as update and delete methods
*/
public Runnable prepareFlush();
public String getFieldName();
/**
* Closes the corresponding persistence connection
*/
public void close();
}