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/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2009, 2011 Ericsson
 * 
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials are
 * made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which
 * accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 * 
 * Contributors:
 *   Francois Chouinard - Initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/

package org.eclipse.linuxtools.tmf.trace;

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

import org.eclipse.core.resources.IProject;
import org.eclipse.linuxtools.tmf.component.ITmfComponent;
import org.eclipse.linuxtools.tmf.event.TmfEvent;
import org.eclipse.linuxtools.tmf.event.TmfTimeRange;
import org.eclipse.linuxtools.tmf.event.TmfTimestamp;

/**
 * <b><u>ITmfTrace</u></b>
 * <p>
 */
public interface ITmfTrace<T extends TmfEvent> extends ITmfComponent {

    // initTrace variants
    public void initTrace(String path, Class<T> eventType) throws FileNotFoundException;

    public void initTrace(String path, Class<T> eventType, int cacheSize) throws FileNotFoundException;

    public void initTrace(String path, Class<T> eventType, boolean indexTrace) throws FileNotFoundException;

    public void initTrace(String path, Class<T> eventType, int cacheSize, boolean indexTrace) throws FileNotFoundException;

    // Trace type validation
    public boolean validate(IProject project, String path);

    public ITmfTrace<T> copy();

    /**
     * @return the trace path
     */
    public String getPath();

    /**
     * @return the trace name
     */
    @Override
    public String getName();

    /**
     * @return the cache size
     */
    public int getCacheSize();

    /**
     * @return the number of events in the trace
     */
    public long getNbEvents();

    /**
     * Trace time range accesses
     */
    public TmfTimeRange getTimeRange();

    public TmfTimestamp getStartTime();

    public TmfTimestamp getEndTime();

    /**
     * Positions the trace at the first event with the specified timestamp or index (i.e. the nth event in the trace).
     * 
     * Returns a context which can later be used to read the event.
     * 
     * @param location
     * @param timestamp
     * @param rank
     * @return a context object for subsequent reads
     */
    public TmfContext seekLocation(ITmfLocation<?> location);

    public TmfContext seekEvent(TmfTimestamp timestamp);

    public TmfContext seekEvent(long rank);

    /**
     * Positions the trace at the event located at the specified ratio.
     * 
     * Returns a context which can later be used to read the event.
     * 
     * @param ratio
     *            a floating-point number between 0.0 (beginning) and 1.0 (end)
     * @return a context object for subsequent reads
     */
    public TmfContext seekLocation(double ratio);

    /**
     * Returns the ratio corresponding to the specified location.
     * 
     * @param location
     *            a trace location
     * @return a floating-point number between 0.0 (beginning) and 1.0 (end)
     */
    public double getLocationRatio(ITmfLocation<?> location);

    public ITmfLocation<?> getCurrentLocation();

    /**
     * Returns the rank of the first event with the requested timestamp. If none, returns the index of the next event
     * (if any).
     * 
     * @param timestamp
     * @return
     */
    public long getRank(TmfTimestamp timestamp);

    /**
     * Return the event pointed by the supplied context (or null if no event left) and updates the context to the next
     * event.
     * 
     * @return the next event in the stream
     */
    public TmfEvent getNextEvent(TmfContext context);

    /**
     * Return the event pointed by the supplied context (or null if no event left) and *does not* update the context.
     * 
     * @return the next event in the stream
     */
    public TmfEvent parseEvent(TmfContext context);

}