1 package org.odmg;
2
3 /* Copyright 2004-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
4 *
5 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
6 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
7 * 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
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16 */
17
18
19 /**
20 * The interface that defines the operations of an ODMG array.
21 * Nearly all of its operations are defined by the JavaSoft <code>List</code> interface.
22 * All of the operations defined by the JavaSoft <code>List</code>
23 * interface are supported by an ODMG implementation of <code>DArray</code>,
24 * the exception <code>UnsupportedOperationException</code> is not thrown when a
25 * call is made to any of the <code>List</code> methods.
26 * An instance of a class implementing this interface can be obtained
27 * by calling the method <code>Implementation.newDArray</code>.
28 * @author David Jordan (as Java Editor of the Object Data Management Group)
29 * @version ODMG 3.0
30 */
31 // @see java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException
32
33 public interface DArray extends org.odmg.DCollection, java.util.List
34 {
35 /**
36 * Resize the array to have <code>newSize</code> elements.
37 * @param newSize The new size of the array.
38 */
39 public void resize(int newSize);
40 }