/*
 * Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Matthias Heizmann (heizmann@informatik.uni-freiburg.de)
 * Copyright (C) 2015 University of Freiburg
 *
 * This file is part of the ULTIMATE Util Library.
 *
 * The ULTIMATE Util Library is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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 */
package de.uni_freiburg.informatik.ultimate.util.statistics;

import java.util.Collection;

/**
 * Classes that implement this interface can provide data to our benchmarks. Our benchmarks are key-value stores.
 * 
 * @author Matthias Heizmann
 *
 */
public interface IStatisticsDataProvider {

	/**
	 * @return all keys under which single metrics are retrievable
	 */
	default Collection<String> getKeys() {
		return getBenchmarkType().getKeys();
	}

	Object getValue(String key);

	IStatisticsType getBenchmarkType();

}