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/*
 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
 * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
 * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
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 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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 */
package org.apache.commons.math3.linear;

import org.apache.commons.math3.exception.MathUnsupportedOperationException;
import org.apache.commons.math3.util.IterationEvent;

/**
 * This is the base class for all events occurring during the iterations of a {@link
 * IterativeLinearSolver}.
 *
 * @since 3.0
 */
public abstract class IterativeLinearSolverEvent extends IterationEvent {
    /** Serialization identifier. */
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 20120129L;

    /**
     * Creates a new instance of this class.
     *
     * @param source the iterative algorithm on which the event initially occurred
     * @param iterations the number of iterations performed at the time {@code this} event is
     *     created
     */
    public IterativeLinearSolverEvent(final Object source, final int iterations) {
        super(source, iterations);
    }

    /**
     * Returns the current right-hand side of the linear system to be solved. This method should
     * return an unmodifiable view, or a deep copy of the actual right-hand side vector, in order
     * not to compromise subsequent iterations of the source {@link IterativeLinearSolver}.
     *
     * @return the right-hand side vector, b
     */
    public abstract RealVector getRightHandSideVector();

    /**
     * Returns the norm of the residual. The returned value is not required to be <em>exact</em>.
     * Instead, the norm of the so-called <em>updated</em> residual (if available) should be
     * returned. For example, the {@link ConjugateGradient conjugate gradient} method computes a
     * sequence of residuals, the norm of which is cheap to compute. However, due to accumulation of
     * round-off errors, this residual might differ from the true residual after some iterations.
     * See e.g. A. Greenbaum and Z. Strakos, <em>Predicting the Behavior of Finite Precision Lanzos
     * and Conjugate Gradient Computations</em>, Technical Report 538, Department of Computer
     * Science, New York University, 1991 (available <a
     * href="http://www.archive.org/details/predictingbehavi00gree">here</a>).
     *
     * @return the norm of the residual, ||r||
     */
    public abstract double getNormOfResidual();

    /**
     * Returns the residual. This is an optional operation, as all iterative linear solvers do not
     * provide cheap estimate of the updated residual vector, in which case
     *
     * <ul>
     *   <li>this method should throw a {@link MathUnsupportedOperationException},
     *   <li>{@link #providesResidual()} returns {@code false}.
     * </ul>
     *
     * <p>The default implementation throws a {@link MathUnsupportedOperationException}. If this
     * method is overriden, then {@link #providesResidual()} should be overriden as well.
     *
     * @return the updated residual, r
     */
    public RealVector getResidual() {
        throw new MathUnsupportedOperationException();
    }

    /**
     * Returns the current estimate of the solution to the linear system to be solved. This method
     * should return an unmodifiable view, or a deep copy of the actual current solution, in order
     * not to compromise subsequent iterations of the source {@link IterativeLinearSolver}.
     *
     * @return the solution, x
     */
    public abstract RealVector getSolution();

    /**
     * Returns {@code true} if {@link #getResidual()} is supported. The default implementation
     * returns {@code false}.
     *
     * @return {@code false} if {@link #getResidual()} throws a {@link
     *     MathUnsupportedOperationException}
     */
    public boolean providesResidual() {
        return false;
    }
}