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 Moses - statistical machine translation system
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***********************************************************************/

#pragma once

#include "AlignmentInfo.h"

#include <set>

namespace Moses
{

/** Singleton collection of all AlignmentInfo objects.
 *  Used as a cache of all alignment info to save space.
 * @todo Check whether this needs locking in threaded environment 
 */
class AlignmentInfoCollection
{
 public:
  static AlignmentInfoCollection &Instance() { return s_instance; }

  // Returns a pointer to an AlignmentInfo object with the same source-target
  // alignment pairs as given in the argument.  If the collection already
  // contains such an object then returns a pointer to it; otherwise a new
  // one is inserted.
  const AlignmentInfo *Add(const std::set<std::pair<size_t,size_t> > &);

  // Returns a pointer to an empty AlignmentInfo object.
  const AlignmentInfo &GetEmptyAlignmentInfo() const;

 private:
  typedef std::set<AlignmentInfo, AlignmentInfoOrderer> AlignmentInfoSet;

  // Only a single static variable should be created.
  AlignmentInfoCollection();

  static AlignmentInfoCollection s_instance;
  AlignmentInfoSet m_collection;
  const AlignmentInfo *m_emptyAlignmentInfo;
};

}