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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You 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
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.math.analysis.solvers;
+
+import org.apache.commons.math.ConvergenceException;
+import org.apache.commons.math.ConvergingAlgorithm;
+import org.apache.commons.math.FunctionEvaluationException;
+import org.apache.commons.math.analysis.UnivariateRealFunction;
+
+
+/**
+ * Interface for (univariate real) rootfinding algorithms.
+ * <p>
+ * Implementations will search for only one zero in the given interval.</p>
+ *
+ * @version $Revision: 1070725 $ $Date: 2011-02-15 02:31:12 +0100 (mar. 15 févr. 2011) $
+ */
+public interface UnivariateRealSolver extends ConvergingAlgorithm {
+
+ /**
+ * Set the function value accuracy.
+ * <p>
+ * This is used to determine when an evaluated function value or some other
+ * value which is used as divisor is zero.</p>
+ * <p>
+ * This is a safety guard and it shouldn't be necessary to change this in
+ * general.</p>
+ *
+ * @param accuracy the accuracy.
+ * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the accuracy can't be achieved by
+ * the solver or is otherwise deemed unreasonable.
+ */
+ void setFunctionValueAccuracy(double accuracy);
+
+ /**
+ * Get the actual function value accuracy.
+ * @return the accuracy
+ */
+ double getFunctionValueAccuracy();
+
+ /**
+ * Reset the actual function accuracy to the default.
+ * The default value is provided by the solver implementation.
+ */
+ void resetFunctionValueAccuracy();
+
+ /**
+ * Solve for a zero root in the given interval.
+ * <p>A solver may require that the interval brackets a single zero root.
+ * Solvers that do require bracketing should be able to handle the case
+ * where one of the endpoints is itself a root.</p>
+ *
+ * @param min the lower bound for the interval.
+ * @param max the upper bound for the interval.
+ * @return a value where the function is zero
+ * @throws ConvergenceException if the maximum iteration count is exceeded
+ * or the solver detects convergence problems otherwise.
+ * @throws FunctionEvaluationException if an error occurs evaluating the function
+ * @throws IllegalArgumentException if min > max or the endpoints do not
+ * satisfy the requirements specified by the solver
+ * @deprecated replaced by {@link #solve(UnivariateRealFunction, double, double)}
+ * since 2.0
+ */
+ @Deprecated
+ double solve(double min, double max) throws ConvergenceException, FunctionEvaluationException;
+
+ /**
+ * Solve for a zero root in the given interval.
+ * <p>A solver may require that the interval brackets a single zero root.
+ * Solvers that do require bracketing should be able to handle the case
+ * where one of the endpoints is itself a root.</p>
+ *
+ * @param f the function to solve.
+ * @param min the lower bound for the interval.
+ * @param max the upper bound for the interval.
+ * @return a value where the function is zero
+ * @throws ConvergenceException if the maximum iteration count is exceeded
+ * or the solver detects convergence problems otherwise.
+ * @throws FunctionEvaluationException if an error occurs evaluating the function
+ * @throws IllegalArgumentException if min > max or the endpoints do not
+ * satisfy the requirements specified by the solver
+ * @since 2.0
+ * @deprecated in 2.2 (to be removed in 3.0).
+ */
+ @Deprecated
+ double solve(UnivariateRealFunction f, double min, double max)
+ throws ConvergenceException, FunctionEvaluationException;
+
+ /**
+ * Solve for a zero in the given interval, start at startValue.
+ * <p>A solver may require that the interval brackets a single zero root.
+ * Solvers that do require bracketing should be able to handle the case
+ * where one of the endpoints is itself a root.</p>
+ *
+ * @param min the lower bound for the interval.
+ * @param max the upper bound for the interval.
+ * @param startValue the start value to use
+ * @return a value where the function is zero
+ * @throws ConvergenceException if the maximum iteration count is exceeded
+ * or the solver detects convergence problems otherwise.
+ * @throws FunctionEvaluationException if an error occurs evaluating the function
+ * @throws IllegalArgumentException if min > max or the arguments do not
+ * satisfy the requirements specified by the solver
+ * @deprecated replaced by {@link #solve(UnivariateRealFunction, double, double, double)}
+ * since 2.0
+ */
+ @Deprecated
+ double solve(double min, double max, double startValue)
+ throws ConvergenceException, FunctionEvaluationException, IllegalArgumentException;
+
+ /**
+ * Solve for a zero in the given interval, start at startValue.
+ * <p>A solver may require that the interval brackets a single zero root.
+ * Solvers that do require bracketing should be able to handle the case
+ * where one of the endpoints is itself a root.</p>
+ *
+ * @param f the function to solve.
+ * @param min the lower bound for the interval.
+ * @param max the upper bound for the interval.
+ * @param startValue the start value to use
+ * @return a value where the function is zero
+ * @throws ConvergenceException if the maximum iteration count is exceeded
+ * or the solver detects convergence problems otherwise.
+ * @throws FunctionEvaluationException if an error occurs evaluating the function
+ * @throws IllegalArgumentException if min > max or the arguments do not
+ * satisfy the requirements specified by the solver
+ * @since 2.0
+ * @deprecated in 2.2 (to be removed in 3.0).
+ */
+ @Deprecated
+ double solve(UnivariateRealFunction f, double min, double max, double startValue)
+ throws ConvergenceException, FunctionEvaluationException, IllegalArgumentException;
+
+ /**
+ * Get the result of the last run of the solver.
+ *
+ * @return the last result.
+ * @throws IllegalStateException if there is no result available, either
+ * because no result was yet computed or the last attempt failed.
+ */
+ double getResult();
+
+ /**
+ * Get the result of the last run of the solver.
+ *
+ * @return the value of the function at the last result.
+ * @throws IllegalStateException if there is no result available, either
+ * because no result was yet computed or the last attempt failed.
+ */
+ double getFunctionValue();
+}