org.apache.commons.collections
Interface BoundedCollection

All Superinterfaces:

Collection

All Known Implementing Classes:

BoundedFifoBuffer, BoundedFifoBuffer, FixedSizeList, UnmodifiableBoundedCollection

public interface BoundedCollection

extends Collection

Defines a collection that is bounded in size.

The size of the collection can vary, but it can never exceed a preset maximum number of elements. This interface allows the querying of details associated with the maximum number of elements.

Since:

Commons Collections 3.0

Version:

$Revision: 1.11 $ $Date: 2004/04/14 20:13:11 $

Author:

Herve Quiroz, Stephen Colebourne

See Also:

CollectionUtils.isFull(java.util.Collection), CollectionUtils.maxSize(java.util.Collection)

Method Summary

boolean	isFull() Returns true if this collection is full and no new elements can be added.
int	maxSize() Gets the maximum size of the collection (the bound).

Methods inherited from interface java.util.Collection

add, addAll, clear, contains, containsAll, equals, hashCode, isEmpty, iterator, remove, removeAll, retainAll, size, toArray, toArray

Method Detail

isFull

public boolean isFull()

Returns true if this collection is full and no new elements can be added.

Returns:

true if the collection is full

maxSize

public int maxSize()

Gets the maximum size of the collection (the bound).

Returns:

the maximum number of elements the collection can hold