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 * Units of Measurement Implementation for Java SE
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package tec.uom.se.spi;

import static tec.uom.se.spi.AbstractMeasurement.Default;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.time.Instant;

import javax.measure.Quantity;

import tec.uom.lib.common.function.QuantitySupplier;
import tec.uom.se.ComparableQuantity;

/**
 * A Measurement contains a {@link Quantity} and a timestamp.
 *
 * <p>
 * A {@code Measurement} object is used for maintaining the tuple of quantity and time-stamp.
 * The value is represented as {@linkplain Quantity}
 * and the time as {@linkplain Instant} plus <type>long</type> for backward-compatibility.
 * <p>
 *
 * @see {@link QuantitySupplier}
 * @author werner
 * @version 0.6
 * @param <Q>
 */
public interface Measurement<Q extends Quantity<Q>> extends QuantitySupplier<Q>, Serializable {

	/**
	 * Returns the timestamp of this {@link Measurement}.
	 *
	 * @return a timestamp.
	 */
	long getTimestamp();

	/**
	 * Returns the {@linkplain Instant} as timestamp.
	 *
	 * @return an instant.
	 */
	Instant getInstant();

	@SuppressWarnings({ })
	static <Q extends Quantity<Q>> Measurement<Q> of(Quantity<Q> q) {
		return new Default<>(q);
	}

	static <Q extends Quantity<Q>> Measurement<Q> of(Quantity<Q> q, Instant i) {
		return new Default<>(q, i);
	}

	static <Q extends Quantity<Q>> Measurement<Q> of(ComparableQuantity<Q> q) {
		return new AbstractMeasurement.DefaultComparable<>(q);
	}

	static <Q extends Quantity<Q>> Measurement<Q> of(ComparableQuantity<Q> q, Instant i) {
		return new AbstractMeasurement.DefaultComparable<>(q, i);
	}
}
