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 * Copyright (C) 2006 The Android Open Source Project
 *
 * Licensed 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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package android.webkit;

import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * This class contains the back/forward list for a WebView.
 * WebView.copyBackForwardList() will return a copy of this class used to
 * inspect the entries in the list.
 */
public abstract class WebBackForwardList implements Cloneable, Serializable {
    /**
     * Return the current history item. This method returns null if the list is
     * empty.
     * @return The current history item.
     */
    public abstract WebHistoryItem getCurrentItem();

    /**
     * Get the index of the current history item. This index can be used to
     * directly index into the array list.
     * @return The current index from 0...n or -1 if the list is empty.
     */
    public abstract int getCurrentIndex();

    /**
     * Get the history item at the given index. The index range is from 0...n
     * where 0 is the first item and n is the last item.
     * @param index The index to retrieve.
     */
    public abstract WebHistoryItem getItemAtIndex(int index);

    /**
     * Get the total size of the back/forward list.
     * @return The size of the list.
     */
    public abstract int getSize();

    /**
     * Clone the entire object to be used in the UI thread by clients of
     * WebView. This creates a copy that should never be modified by any of the
     * webkit package classes.
     */
    protected abstract WebBackForwardList clone();
}