/***********************************************************************
 Moses - statistical machine translation system
 Copyright (C) 2006-2011 University of Edinburgh

 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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***********************************************************************/

#pragma once

#include "AlignmentInfo.h"

#include <set>

#ifdef WITH_THREADS
#include <boost/thread/shared_mutex.hpp>
#include <boost/thread/locks.hpp>
#endif

namespace Moses2
{

/** Singleton collection of all AlignmentInfo objects.
 *  Used as a cache of all alignment info to save space.
 */
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.
   */
private:
  const AlignmentInfo* Add(AlignmentInfo const& ainfo);

public:
  template<typename ALNREP>
  AlignmentInfo const *
  Add(ALNREP const & aln) {
    return this->Add(AlignmentInfo(aln));
  }

  //! 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();
  ~AlignmentInfoCollection();

  static AlignmentInfoCollection s_instance;

#ifdef WITH_THREADS
  //reader-writer lock
  mutable boost::shared_mutex m_accessLock;
#endif

  AlignmentInfoSet m_collection;
  const AlignmentInfo *m_emptyAlignmentInfo;
};

}