/**
 * Replication Benchmarker
 * https://github.com/score-team/replication-benchmarker/
 * Copyright (C) 2013 LORIA / Inria / SCORE Team
 *
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * 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 General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */
package jbenchmarker.logoot;

import crdt.tree.orderedtree.PositionIdentifier;
import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * A logoot identifier.
 * @author urso
 */
public interface ListIdentifier<T> extends PositionIdentifier, Comparable<T>, Cloneable, Serializable {
    /**
     * Length of this growable identifier.
     * @return  the number of identifiers
     */
    int length();

    /**
     * Replica that generates this identifier.
     * @return replica of this identifier.
     */
    int replica();
 
    /**
     * Clock used to generates this identifier.
     * @return clock of this identifier
     */
    int clock();   
    
    ListIdentifier clone();
}