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package org.encog.util.normalize.segregate.index;

import org.encog.util.normalize.DataNormalization;
import org.encog.util.normalize.segregate.Segregator;

/**
 * The index segregator. An abstract class to build index based segregators off
 * of. An index segregator is used to segregate the data according to its index.
 * Nothing about the data is actually compared. This makes the index range
 * segregator very useful for breaking the data into training and validation
 * sets. For example, you could very easily determine that 70% of the data is
 * for training, and 30% for validation.
 */
public abstract class IndexSegregator implements Segregator {

	/**
	 * The current index.  Updated rows are processed.
	 */
	private int currentIndex = 0;

	/**
	 * THe normalization object this belongs to.
	 */
	private DataNormalization normalization;

	/**
	 * @return The current index.
	 */
	public int getCurrentIndex() {
		return this.currentIndex;
	}

	/**
	 * @return The normalization object this object will use.
	 */
	public DataNormalization getNormalization() {
		return this.normalization;
	}

	/**
	 * Setup this class with the specified normalization object.
	 * @param normalization Normalization object.
	 */
	public void init(final DataNormalization normalization) {
		this.normalization = normalization;
	}

	/**
	 * Used to increase the current index as data is processed.
	 */
	public void rollIndex() {
		this.currentIndex++;
	}
	
	/**
	 * Reset the counter to zero.
	 */
	public void passInit() {	
		this.currentIndex = 0;
	}

}
