001/*- 002 * Copyright 2015, 2016 Diamond Light Source Ltd. 003 * 004 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials 005 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 006 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at 007 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html 008 */ 009 010package org.eclipse.january.dataset; 011 012import java.util.Date; 013 014/** 015 * Interface for a dataset containing {@link Date}s. 016 */ 017public interface DateDataset extends Dataset { 018 /** 019 * Get the first date. The dataset must not be null 020 * @return date 021 * @since 2.0 022 */ 023 public Date getDate(); 024 025 026 /** 027 * Get the date at index i. The dataset must be 1D 028 * @param i 029 * @return date 030 */ 031 public Date getDate(final int i); 032 033 /** 034 * Get the date at index i, j. The dataset must be 2D 035 * @param i 036 * @param j 037 * @return date 038 */ 039 public Date getDate(final int i, final int j); 040 041 /** 042 * Get the date at given indices 043 * @param pos indices 044 * @return date 045 */ 046 public Date getDate(final int... pos); 047 048 /** 049 * Get the date at the given absolute index. See warning for {@link Dataset} interface. 050 * @param index 051 * @return date 052 */ 053 public Date getDateAbs(final int index); 054 055}