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A {@code NavigableSet} may be accessed and traversed in either * ascending or descending order. The {@link #descendingSet} method * returns a view of the set with the senses of all relational and * directional methods inverted. The performance of ascending * operations and views is likely to be faster than that of descending * ones. This interface additionally defines methods {@link * #pollFirst} and {@link #pollLast} that return and remove the lowest * and highest element, if one exists, else returning {@code null}. * Methods * {@link #subSet(Object, boolean, Object, boolean) subSet(E, boolean, E, boolean)}, * {@link #headSet(Object, boolean) headSet(E, boolean)}, and * {@link #tailSet(Object, boolean) tailSet(E, boolean)} * differ from the like-named {@code SortedSet} methods in accepting * additional arguments describing whether lower and upper bounds are * inclusive versus exclusive. Subsets of any {@code NavigableSet} * must implement the {@code NavigableSet} interface. * *
The return values of navigation methods may be ambiguous in * implementations that permit {@code null} elements. However, even * in this case the result can be disambiguated by checking * {@code contains(null)}. To avoid such issues, implementations of * this interface are encouraged to not permit insertion of * {@code null} elements. (Note that sorted sets of {@link * Comparable} elements intrinsically do not permit {@code null}.) * *
Methods
* {@link #subSet(Object, Object) subSet(E, E)},
* {@link #headSet(Object) headSet(E)}, and
* {@link #tailSet(Object) tailSet(E)}
* are specified to return {@code SortedSet} to allow existing
* implementations of {@code SortedSet} to be compatibly retrofitted to
* implement {@code NavigableSet}, but extensions and implementations
* of this interface are encouraged to override these methods to return
* {@code NavigableSet}.
*
* @author Doug Lea
* @author Josh Bloch
* @param The returned set has an ordering equivalent to
* {@link Collections#reverseOrder(Comparator) Collections.reverseOrder}{@code (comparator())}.
* The expression {@code s.descendingSet().descendingSet()} returns a
* view of {@code s} essentially equivalent to {@code s}.
*
* @return a reverse order view of this set
*/
NavigableSet The returned set will throw an {@code IllegalArgumentException}
* on an attempt to insert an element outside its range.
*
* @param fromElement low endpoint of the returned set
* @param fromInclusive {@code true} if the low endpoint
* is to be included in the returned view
* @param toElement high endpoint of the returned set
* @param toInclusive {@code true} if the high endpoint
* is to be included in the returned view
* @return a view of the portion of this set whose elements range from
* {@code fromElement}, inclusive, to {@code toElement}, exclusive
* @throws ClassCastException if {@code fromElement} and
* {@code toElement} cannot be compared to one another using this
* set's comparator (or, if the set has no comparator, using
* natural ordering). Implementations may, but are not required
* to, throw this exception if {@code fromElement} or
* {@code toElement} cannot be compared to elements currently in
* the set.
* @throws NullPointerException if {@code fromElement} or
* {@code toElement} is null and this set does
* not permit null elements
* @throws IllegalArgumentException if {@code fromElement} is
* greater than {@code toElement}; or if this set itself
* has a restricted range, and {@code fromElement} or
* {@code toElement} lies outside the bounds of the range.
*/
NavigableSet The returned set will throw an {@code IllegalArgumentException}
* on an attempt to insert an element outside its range.
*
* @param toElement high endpoint of the returned set
* @param inclusive {@code true} if the high endpoint
* is to be included in the returned view
* @return a view of the portion of this set whose elements are less than
* (or equal to, if {@code inclusive} is true) {@code toElement}
* @throws ClassCastException if {@code toElement} is not compatible
* with this set's comparator (or, if the set has no comparator,
* if {@code toElement} does not implement {@link Comparable}).
* Implementations may, but are not required to, throw this
* exception if {@code toElement} cannot be compared to elements
* currently in the set.
* @throws NullPointerException if {@code toElement} is null and
* this set does not permit null elements
* @throws IllegalArgumentException if this set itself has a
* restricted range, and {@code toElement} lies outside the
* bounds of the range
*/
NavigableSet The returned set will throw an {@code IllegalArgumentException}
* on an attempt to insert an element outside its range.
*
* @param fromElement low endpoint of the returned set
* @param inclusive {@code true} if the low endpoint
* is to be included in the returned view
* @return a view of the portion of this set whose elements are greater
* than or equal to {@code fromElement}
* @throws ClassCastException if {@code fromElement} is not compatible
* with this set's comparator (or, if the set has no comparator,
* if {@code fromElement} does not implement {@link Comparable}).
* Implementations may, but are not required to, throw this
* exception if {@code fromElement} cannot be compared to elements
* currently in the set.
* @throws NullPointerException if {@code fromElement} is null
* and this set does not permit null elements
* @throws IllegalArgumentException if this set itself has a
* restricted range, and {@code fromElement} lies outside the
* bounds of the range
*/
NavigableSet Equivalent to {@code subSet(fromElement, true, toElement, false)}.
*
* @throws ClassCastException {@inheritDoc}
* @throws NullPointerException {@inheritDoc}
* @throws IllegalArgumentException {@inheritDoc}
*/
SortedSet Equivalent to {@code headSet(toElement, false)}.
*
* @throws ClassCastException {@inheritDoc}
* @throws NullPointerException {@inheritDoc}
* @throws IllegalArgumentException {@inheritDoc}
*/
SortedSet Equivalent to {@code tailSet(fromElement, true)}.
*
* @throws ClassCastException {@inheritDoc}
* @throws NullPointerException {@inheritDoc}
* @throws IllegalArgumentException {@inheritDoc}
*/
SortedSet
* This method is equivalent to {@link #descendingSet descendingSet}.
*
* @implSpec
* The implementation in this interface returns the result of calling the
* {@code descendingSet} method.
*
* @return a reverse-ordered view of this collection, as a {@code NavigableSet}
* @since 21
*/
default NavigableSet