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| Mutable |
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| 1.0;1 |
| 1 | /* | |
| 2 | * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more | |
| 3 | * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with | |
| 4 | * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. | |
| 5 | * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 | |
| 6 | * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with | |
| 7 | * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at | |
| 8 | * | |
| 9 | * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 | |
| 10 | * | |
| 11 | * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software | |
| 12 | * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, | |
| 13 | * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. | |
| 14 | * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and | |
| 15 | * limitations under the License. | |
| 16 | */ | |
| 17 | ||
| 18 | package org.apache.commons.lang3.mutable; | |
| 19 | ||
| 20 | /** | |
| 21 | * Provides mutable access to a value. | |
| 22 | * <p> | |
| 23 | * <code>Mutable</code> is used as a generic interface to the implementations in this package. | |
| 24 | * <p> | |
| 25 | * A typical use case would be to enable a primitive or string to be passed to a method and allow that method to | |
| 26 | * effectively change the value of the primitive/string. Another use case is to store a frequently changing primitive in | |
| 27 | * a collection (for example a total in a map) without needing to create new Integer/Long wrapper objects. | |
| 28 | * | |
| 29 | * @since 2.1 | |
| 30 | * @param <T> the type to set and get | |
| 31 | * @version $Id: Mutable.java 1153213 2011-08-02 17:35:39Z ggregory $ | |
| 32 | */ | |
| 33 | public interface Mutable<T> { | |
| 34 | ||
| 35 | /** | |
| 36 | * Gets the value of this mutable. | |
| 37 | * | |
| 38 | * @return the stored value | |
| 39 | */ | |
| 40 | T getValue(); | |
| 41 | ||
| 42 | /** | |
| 43 | * Sets the value of this mutable. | |
| 44 | * | |
| 45 | * @param value | |
| 46 | * the value to store | |
| 47 | * @throws NullPointerException | |
| 48 | * if the object is null and null is invalid | |
| 49 | * @throws ClassCastException | |
| 50 | * if the type is invalid | |
| 51 | */ | |
| 52 | void setValue(T value); | |
| 53 | ||
| 54 | } |