/**
* AnalyzerBeans
* Copyright (C) 2014 Neopost - Customer Information Management
*
* This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use, modify,
* copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU
* Lesser General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
* or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License
* for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
* along with this distribution; if not, write to:
* Free Software Foundation, Inc.
* 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor
* Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*/
package org.eobjects.analyzer.reference;
import java.util.Collection;
/**
* Represents a collection of values where lookup using containsValue(...) is
* the preferred way of access. Typically the implementation will use some
* caching mechanism for the contained values because getting all values would
* mean loading a lot of objects into memory.
*
*
*
* @param <E>
*/
public interface ReferenceValues<E> {
public Collection<E> getValues();
public boolean containsValue(E value);
}