owlapi-version5/api/src/main/java/org/semanticweb/owlapi/reasoner/OWLReasonerConfiguration.java
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package org.semanticweb.owlapi.reasoner;

import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * An OWLReasonerConfiguration can be used to customise the setup of a reasoner
 * at reasoner creation time via an
 * {@link org.semanticweb.owlapi.reasoner.OWLReasonerFactory}. Specific
 * reasoners may define their own configuration objects with configuration
 * options particular to the reasoner. There are also a set of general options
 * defined by this configuration object. <br>
 * Note that once a reasoner has been created, changing fields (via setter
 * methods or directly) on the configuration object will have no effect.
 *
 * @author Matthew Horridge, The University of Manchester, Information Management Group
 * @see org.semanticweb.owlapi.reasoner.OWLReasonerFactory
 * @see org.semanticweb.owlapi.reasoner.SimpleConfiguration
 * @since 3.0.0
 */
public interface OWLReasonerConfiguration extends Serializable {

    /**
     * Gets a progress monitor that the reasoner may update with information
     * about the progress of its reasoning process.
     *
     * @return A progress monitor. By default this returns {@link NullReasonerProgressMonitor}
     */
    ReasonerProgressMonitor getProgressMonitor();

    /**
     * Gets the timeout in milliseconds for basic single reasoner operations
     * (satisfiability check time out). If the value is equal to
     * {@link Long#MAX_VALUE} then this means that the reasoner should never
     * time out. <br>
     * The reasoner will monitor the elapsed time during a satisfiability check
     * (attempt to build a model for example) and if the elapsed time exceeds
     * the timeout then it will abort the test as soon as possible and terminate
     * all reasoning. A {@link org.semanticweb.owlapi.reasoner.TimeOutException}
     * will be thrown in the thread that invoked the last reasoner operation.
     * <br>
     * Note that this is not a timeout for method calls such as "getSubClasses",
     * which may involve many satisfiability (or other basic reasoning task)
     * checks, the sum of which may well exceed the timeout.
     *
     * @return The time out in milliseconds. By default this is set to the value of {@link
     * Long#MAX_VALUE}, which means the reasoner SHOULD NOT timeout.
     */
    long getTimeOut();

    /**
     * Gets the fresh entity policy that should be used. By default this is set
     * to {@link FreshEntityPolicy#ALLOW}.
     *
     * @return The fresh entity policy.
     */
    FreshEntityPolicy getFreshEntityPolicy();

    /**
     * Gets the {@link org.semanticweb.owlapi.reasoner.IndividualNodeSetPolicy}
     * which determines how {@code NodeSet}s of named individuals are returned
     * from the reasoner.
     *
     * @return The {@code IndividualNodeSetPolicy} that should be used. By default the policy is
     * {@link org.semanticweb.owlapi.reasoner.IndividualNodeSetPolicy#BY_NAME} i.e. by default
     * individuals that are the same as each other are not grouped into the same node within a node
     * set.
     */
    IndividualNodeSetPolicy getIndividualNodeSetPolicy();
}
