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20 * Didier 'Ptitjes Villevalois <ptitjes@free.fr>
24 * A collection designed for holding elements prior to processing.
26 * Although all Queue implementations do not limit the amount of elements they
27 * can contain, this interface supports for capacity-bounded queues. When
28 * capacity is not bound, then the {@link capacity} and
29 * {@link remaining_capacity} both return {@link UNBOUNDED_CAPACITY}.
31 * This interface defines methods that will never fail whatever the state of
32 * the queue is. For capacity-bounded queues, those methods will either return
33 * ``false`` or ``null`` to specify that the insert or retrieval did not occur
34 * because the queue was full or empty.
36 * Queue implementations are not limited to First-In-First-Out behavior and can
37 * propose different ordering of their elements. Each Queue implementation have
38 * to specify how it orders its elements.
40 * Queue implementations do not allow insertion of ``null`` elements, although
41 * some implementations, such as {@link LinkedList}, do not prohibit insertion
42 * of ``null``. Even in the implementations that permit it, ``null`` should not be
43 * inserted into a Queue, as ``null`` is also used as a special return value by
44 * the poll method to indicate that the queue contains no elements.
46 public interface Gee.Queue<G> : Collection<G> {
49 * The unbounded capacity value.
51 public static const int UNBOUNDED_CAPACITY = -1;
54 * The capacity of this queue (or ``null`` if capacity is not bound).
56 public abstract int capacity { get; }
59 * The remaining capacity of this queue (or ``null`` if capacity is not
62 public abstract int remaining_capacity { get; }
65 * Specifies whether this queue is full.
67 public abstract bool is_full { get; }
70 * Offers the specified element to this queue.
72 * @param element the element to offer to the queue
74 * @return ``true`` if the element was added to the queue
76 public abstract bool offer (G element);
79 * Peeks (retrieves, but not remove) an element from this queue.
81 * @return the element peeked from the queue (or ``null`` if none was
84 public abstract G? peek ();
87 * Polls (retrieves and remove) an element from this queue.
89 * @return the element polled from the queue (or ``null`` if none was
92 public abstract G? poll ();
95 * Drains the specified amount of elements from this queue in the specified
96 * recipient collection.
98 * @param recipient the recipient collection to drain the elements to
99 * @param amount the amount of elements to drain
101 * @return the amount of elements that were actually drained
103 public abstract int drain (Collection<G> recipient, int amount = -1);