Package: IEvaluationStrategy

IEvaluationStrategy

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1: package de.fhdw.gaming.ipspiel23.tictactoe.core.evaluation;
2:
3: import java.util.Optional;
4:
5: import de.fhdw.gaming.ipspiel23.tictactoe.core.domain.TicTacToeState;
6:
7: /**
8: * Interface for the evaluation strategy used to evaluate the state of a Tic-Tac-Toe game.
9: * Evaluation strategies are responsible for assigning a score to a game state,
10: * indicating the desirability of that state.
11: * Implementations of this interface should provide a method to evaluate the given Tic-Tac-Toe game state.
12: *
13: * The evaluation result is an optional integer value,
14: * where a higher value represents a more desirable state for the current player.
15: *
16: * @see TicTacToeState
17: * @see java.util.Optional
18: *
19: */
20: public interface IEvaluationStrategy {
21:
22: /**
23: * Evaluates the given Tic-Tac-Toe game state.
24: *
25: * @param state The Tic-Tac-Toe game state to be evaluated.
26: * @return An optional containing the evaluation result as an integer value.
27: */
28: Optional<Integer> evaluateState(TicTacToeState state);
29: }