SupportsGrowingAlphabet (AutomataLib 0.11.0 API)

Type Parameters:

I - input alphabet type

All Known Subinterfaces:

AdaptiveMealyBuilder<I,O>, IncrementalDFABuilder<I>, IncrementalMealyBuilder<I,O>, IncrementalMooreBuilder<I,O>, MealyBuilder<I,O>

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractCompact, AbstractCompactDeterministic, AbstractCompactMTS, AbstractCompactSimpleDeterministic, AbstractCompactSimpleNondet, AbstractFastMutable, AbstractFastMutableDet, AbstractFastMutableNondet, AbstractIncrementalDFABuilder, AdaptiveMealyTreeBuilder, CompactDFA, CompactMealy, CompactMoore, CompactMTS, CompactNFA, CompactSST, DynamicIncrementalMealyTreeBuilder, FastDFA, FastMealy, FastMoore, FastNFA, FastProbMealy, IncrementalDFADAGBuilder, IncrementalDFATreeBuilder, IncrementalMealyDAGBuilder, IncrementalMealyTreeBuilder, IncrementalMooreDAGBuilder, IncrementalMooreTreeBuilder, IncrementalPCDFADAGBuilder, IncrementalPCDFATreeBuilder, UniversalCompactDet, UniversalCompactSimpleDet
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public interface SupportsGrowingAlphabet<I>
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Interface for declaring that a data structure supports adding new alphabet symbols after its instantiation.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`addAlphabetSymbol(I symbol)`	Notifies the data structure that a new symbol should be added to the alphabet.

- Method Detail
  - addAlphabetSymbol
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void addAlphabetSymbol(I symbol)
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    Notifies the data structure that a new symbol should be added to the alphabet. Behavior depends on the implementation:
    
    After adding a new symbol, the symbol-related data may either be initialized with default values or undefined.
    
    Duplicate symbols may: (1) be handled accordingly, (2) be ignored or (3) result in an error.
    
    Some data structures may need to be properly initialized (e.g. with a GrowingAlphabet) to handle potentially shared state across multiple instances. If the needed requirements are not met, a GrowingAlphabetNotSupportedException can be thrown.
    Parameters:
    
    symbol - the symbol to add to the alphabet.
    
    Throws:
    
    GrowingAlphabetNotSupportedException - if the data structure was not properly initialized (e.g. with a GrowingAlphabet).