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17 package org.orekit.propagation;
18
19 import org.orekit.time.AbsoluteDate;
20
21 /** This interface allows to modify {@link SpacecraftState} and set up additional data.
22 * <p>
23 * A data can be any type of java Object (i.e., double[], String, class, etc.)
24 * </p>
25 * <p>
26 * {@link Propagator Propagators} generate {@link SpacecraftState states} that contain at
27 * least orbit, attitude, and mass. These states may however also contain {@link
28 * SpacecraftState#addAdditionalData(String, Object) additional data}. Instances of classes
29 * implementing this interface are intended to be registered to propagators so they can either
30 * modify the basic components (orbit, attitude and mass) or add additional data incrementally
31 * after having computed the basic components.
32 * </p>
33 * <p>
34 * Some additional data may depend on previous additional data to
35 * be already available the before they can be computed. It may even be impossible to compute some
36 * of these additional data at some time if they depend on conditions that are fulfilled only
37 * after propagation as started or some event has occurred. As the propagator builds the complete
38 * state incrementally, looping over the registered providers, it must call their {@link
39 * #update(SpacecraftState) update} methods in an order that fulfill these dependencies that
40 * may be time-dependent and are not related to the order in which the providers are registered to
41 * the propagator. This reordering is performed each time the complete state is built, using a yield
42 * mechanism. The propagator first pushes all providers in a stack and then empty the stack, one provider
43 * at a time, taking care to select only providers that do <em>not</em> {@link
44 * #yields(SpacecraftState) yield} when asked. Consider for example a case where providers A, B and C
45 * have been registered and provider B needs in fact the additional data generated by provider C. Then
46 * when a complete state is built, the propagator puts the three providers in a new stack, and then starts the incremental
47 * generation of additional data. It first checks provider A which does not yield so it is popped from
48 * the stack and the additional data it generates is added. Then provider B is checked, but it yields
49 * because state from provider C is not yet available. So propagator checks provider C which does not
50 * yield, so it is popped out of the stack and applied. At this stage, provider B is the only remaining one
51 * in the stack, so it is checked again, but this time it does not yield because the state from provider
52 * C is available as it has just been added, so provider B is popped from the stack and applied. The stack
53 * is now empty and the propagator can return the completed state.
54 * </p>
55 * <p>
56 * It is possible that at some stages in the propagation, a subset of the providers registered to a
57 * propagator all yield and cannot {@link #update(SpacecraftState) update} the data. This happens
58 * for example during the initialization phase of a propagator that
59 * computes State Transition Matrices or Jacobian matrices. These features are managed as secondary equations
60 * in the ODE integrator, and initialized after the primary equations (which correspond to orbit) have
61 * been initialized. So when the primary equation are initialized, the providers that depend on the secondary
62 * state will all yield. This behavior is expected. Another case occurs when users set up additional data
63 * that induce a dependency loop (data A depending on data B which depends on data C which depends on
64 * data A). In this case, the three corresponding providers will wait for each other and indefinitely yield.
65 * This second case is a deadlock and results from a design error of the additional data management at
66 * application level. The propagator cannot know it in advance if a subset of providers that all yield is
67 * normal or not. So at propagator level, when either situation is detected, the propagator just gives up and
68 * returns the most complete state it was able to compute, without generating any error. Errors will indeed
69 * not be triggered in the first case (once the primary equations have been initialized, the secondary
70 * equations will be initialized too), and they will be triggered in the second case as soon as user attempts
71 * to retrieve an additional data that was not added.
72 * </p>
73 * @see org.orekit.propagation.Propagator
74 * @see org.orekit.propagation.integration.AdditionalDerivativesProvider
75 * @author Luc Maisonobe
76 * @since 13.0
77 */
78 public interface AdditionalDataProvider<T> {
79
80 /** Get the name of the additional data.
81 * <p>
82 * If a provider just modifies one of the basic elements (orbit, attitude
83 * or mass) without adding any new data, it should return the empty string
84 * as its name.
85 * </p>
86 * @return name of the additional data (names containing "orekit"
87 * with any case are reserved for the library internal use)
88 */
89 String getName();
90
91 /** Initialize the additional data provider at the start of propagation.
92 * @param initialState initial spacecraft state information at the start of propagation
93 * @param target date of propagation
94 */
95 default void init(final SpacecraftState initialState, final AbsoluteDate target) {
96 // nothing by default
97 }
98
99 /** Check if this provider should yield so another provider has an opportunity to add missing parts.
100 * <p>
101 * Decision to yield is often based on an additional data being {@link SpacecraftState#hasAdditionalData(String)
102 * already available} in the provided {@code state} (but it could theoretically also depend on
103 * an additional state derivative being {@link SpacecraftState#hasAdditionalStateDerivative(String)
104 * already available}, or any other criterion). If for example a provider needs the state transition
105 * matrix, it could implement this method as:
106 * </p>
107 * <pre>{@code
108 * public boolean yields(final SpacecraftState state) {
109 * return !state.hasAdditionalData("STM");
110 * }
111 * }</pre>
112 * <p>
113 * The default implementation returns {@code false}, meaning that state data can be
114 * {@link #getAdditionalData(SpacecraftState) generated} immediately.
115 * </p>
116 * @param state state to handle
117 * @return true if this provider should yield so another provider has an opportunity to add missing parts
118 * as the state is incrementally built up
119 */
120 default boolean yields(SpacecraftState state) {
121 return false;
122 }
123
124 /** Get the additional data.
125 * @param state spacecraft state to which additional data should correspond
126 * @return additional state corresponding to spacecraft state
127 */
128 T getAdditionalData(SpacecraftState state);
129
130 /** Update a state.
131 * @param state spacecraft state to update
132 * @return updated state
133 */
134 default SpacecraftState update(final SpacecraftState state) {
135 return state.addAdditionalData(getName(), getAdditionalData(state));
136 }
137
138 }