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package com.jme.bounding;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.LinkedHashMap;

import com.jme.scene.batch.TriangleBatch;

/**
 * CollisionTreeController defines an interface for determining which 
 * collision tree to remove from a supplied cache. The desired size is
 * given for the controller to attempt to reduce the cache to, as well as
 * a list of protected elements that should <b>not</b> be removed from the
 * cache.
 * @author Mark Powell
 *
 */
public interface CollisionTreeController {
	/**
	 * clean will reduce the size of cache to the provided desiredSize. The
	 * protectedList defines elements that should not be removed from the 
	 * cache.
	 * @param cache the cache to reduce.
	 * @param protectedList the list of elements to not remove.
	 * @param desiredSize the desiredSize of the final cache.
	 */
	public void clean(LinkedHashMap<TriangleBatch, CollisionTree> cache, 
			ArrayList<TriangleBatch> protectedList, int desiredSize);
}