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# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
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"""Module holding AbstractGroupClassifier class."""

from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod


class AbstractGroupClassifier(object):
    """Abstract class defining API for classifier.

    The classifier is an object with classify() method
    which divides data into groups containing metadata.
    """

    __metaclass__ = ABCMeta

    @abstractmethod
    def classify(self, values):
        """Divide values into consecutive groups with metadata.

        The metadata does not need to follow any specific rules,
        although progression/regression/outlier description would be fine.

        :param values: Sequence of runs to classify.
        :type values: Iterable of float or of AvgStdevMetadata
        :returns: Classified groups
        :rtype: Iterable of RunGroup
        """
        pass