programming-examples/java/Collection_API_Problems/ITree.java

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package com.jwetherell.algorithms.data_structures.interfaces;
/**
* A tree can be defined recursively (locally) as a collection of nodes (starting at a root node),
* where each node is a data structure consisting of a value, together with a list of nodes (the "children"),
* with the constraints that no node is duplicated. A tree can be defined abstractly as a whole (globally)
* as an ordered tree, with a value assigned to each node.
*
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_(data_structure)
*
* @author Justin Wetherell <phishman3579@gmail.com>
*/
public interface ITree<T> {
/**
* Add value to the tree. Tree can contain multiple equal values.
*
* @param value to add to the tree.
* @return True if successfully added to tree.
*/
public boolean add(T value);
/**
* Remove first occurrence of value in the tree.
*
* @param value to remove from the tree.
* @return T value removed from tree.
*/
public T remove(T value);
/**
* Clear the entire stack.
*/
public void clear();
/**
* Does the tree contain the value.
*
* @param value to locate in the tree.
* @return True if tree contains value.
*/
public boolean contains(T value);
/**
* Get number of nodes in the tree.
*
* @return Number of nodes in the tree.
*/
public int size();
/**
* Validate the tree according to the invariants.
*
* @return True if the tree is valid.
*/
public boolean validate();
/**
* Get Tree as a Java compatible Collection
*
* @return Java compatible Collection
*/
public java.util.Collection<T> toCollection();
}