/**
* Copyright 2004-2006 DFKI GmbH.
* All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms.
*
* This file is part of MARY TTS.
*
* MARY TTS is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.
*
* 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 program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*
*/
package marytts.util.data;
/**
* @author Marc Schröder
*
*/
public interface DoubleDataSource {
public int NOT_SPECIFIED = -1;
/**
* Request to get the specified amount of data in a new double array.
*
* @param amount
* the number of doubles requested
* @return a new double array; its length may be smaller than amount if not enough data could be obtained. If no data could be
* read, null is returned.
*/
public double[] getData(int amount);
/**
* Try to get as many double data from this DoubleDataSource as target can hold.
*
* @param target
* the double array in which to write the data
* @return the number of data items written into target. If the returned value is less than target.length, only that many data
* items have been copied into target; further calls will return 0 and not copy anything.
*/
public int getData(double[] target);
/**
* Try to get length doubles from this DoubleDataSource, and copy them into target, starting from targetPos.
*
* @param target
* the double array to write into
* @param targetPos
* position in target where to start writing
* @param length
* the amount of data requested
* @return the amount of data actually delivered. If the returned value is less than length, only that many data items have
* been copied into target; further calls will return 0 and not copy anything.
*/
public int getData(double[] target, int targetPos, int length);
/**
* Whether or not any more data can be read from this data source.
*
* @return true if another call to getData() will return data, false otherwise.
*/
public boolean hasMoreData();
/**
* The number of doubles that can currently be read from this double data source without blocking. This number can change over
* time.
*
* @return the number of doubles that can currently be read without blocking
*/
public int available();
/**
* Get all the data that can be read from this data source, in a single double array.
*
* @throws OutOfMemoryError
* if a sufficiently large double array cannot be created.
* @return a double array of exactly the length required to contain all the data that can be read from this source. Returns an
* array of length 0 if no data can be read from this source.
*/
public double[] getAllData();
/**
* Get the total length of the data in this data source, if available.
*
* @return the number of doubles that can be read from this data source, or DoubleDataSource.NOT_SPECIFIED if unknown.
*/
public long getDataLength();
}