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 * Copyright 2016 Netflix, Inc.
 *
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 */

package io.reactivex.internal.fuseable;

import io.reactivex.Flowable;

/**
 * Interface indicating a operator implementation can be macro-fused back to Flowable in case
 * the operator goes from Flowable to some other reactive type and then the sequence calls
 * for toFlowable again:
 * <pre>
 * Single&lt;Integer> single = Flowable.range(1, 10).reduce((a, b) -> a + b);
 * Flowable&lt;Integer> flowable = single.toFlowable();
 * </pre>
 *
 * The {@code Single.toFlowable()} will check for this interface and call the {@link #fuseToFlowable()}
 * to return a Flowable which could be the Flowable-specific implementation of reduce(BiFunction).
 * <p>
 * This causes a slight overhead in assembly time (1 instanceof check, 1 operator allocation and 1 dropped
 * operator) but does not incur the conversion overhead at runtime.
 *
 * @param <T> the value type
 */
public interface FuseToFlowable<T> {

    /**
     * Returns a (direct) Flowable for the operator.
     * <p>The implementation should handle the necessary RxJavaPlugins wrapping.
     * @return the Flowable instance
     */
    Flowable<T> fuseToFlowable();
}
