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package org.apache.storm.windowing;

import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * A view of events in a sliding window.
 *
 * @param <T> the type of event that this window contains. E.g. {@link org.apache.storm.tuple.Tuple}
 */
public interface Window<T> {
  /**
   * Gets the list of events in the window.
   * <p>
   *     <b>Note: </b> If the number of tuples in windows is huge, invoking {@code get} would
   *                   load all the tuples into memory and may throw an OOM exception. Use
   *                   windowing with persistence
   * </p>
   * @return the list of events in the window.
   */
  List<T> get();

  /**
   * Returns an iterator over the events in the window.
   * @return an {@link Iterator} over the events in the current window.
   */
  default Iterator<T> getIter() {
    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not implemented");
  }

  /**
   * Get the list of newly added events in the window since the last time the window was generated.
   * @return the list of newly added events in the window.
   */
  List<T> getNew();

  /**
   * Get the list of events expired from the window since the last time the window was generated.
   * @return the list of events expired from the window.
   */
  List<T> getExpired();

  /**
   * If processing based on event time, returns the window end time based on watermark otherwise
   * returns the window end time based on processing time.
   *
   * @return the window end timestamp
   */
  Long getEndTimestamp();

  /**
   * Returns the window start timestamp. Will return null if the window length is not based on
   * time duration.
   *
   * @return the window start timestamp or null if the window length is not time based
   */
  Long getStartTimestamp();
}