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package org.apache.nlpcraft.model;

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

/**
 * Data model query context. This context defines fully processed user input and its associated data that
 * the model's intents need to process and return the result.
 * 
 * @see NCIntentMatch#getContext() 
 */
public interface NCContext extends NCMetadata, Serializable {
    /**
     * Tests if given token is part of the query this context is associated with.
     *
     * @param tok Token to check.
     * @return {@code true} if given token is from the sentence associated with this context, {@code false} otherwise.
     */
    boolean isOwnerOf(NCToken tok);

    /**
     * Gets collection of all parsing variants for this query. Each parsing variant is a list of detected tokens.
     * Note that a given user input can have one or more possible different parsing variants.
     *
     * @return All parsing variants of this query. Always contains at least one variant.
     */
    Collection<? extends NCVariant> getVariants();

    /**
     * Gets model instance for this query.
     *
     * @return Model.
     */
    NCModelView getModel();

    /**
     * Gets supplemental information about user request.
     *
     * @return Supplemental information about user request.
     */
    NCRequest getRequest();

    /**
     * Gets current conversation for the query's user and data model.
     *
     * @return Current conversation.
     */
    NCConversation getConversation();
}