/* -*- mode: c++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */

/*
 Copyright (C) 2006 Mark Joshi

 This file is part of QuantLib, a free-software/open-source library
 for financial quantitative analysts and developers - http://quantlib.org/

 QuantLib is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
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*/


#ifndef quantlib_constrained_evolver_hpp
#define quantlib_constrained_evolver_hpp

#include <ql/models/marketmodels/evolver.hpp>

namespace QuantLib {

    //! Constrained market-model evolver
    /*! Abstract base class. Requires extra methods above that of
        marketmodelevolver to let you fix rates via importance sampling.

        The evolver does the actual gritty work of evolving the forward rates
        from one time to the next.

        This is intended to be used for the Fries-Joshi proxy simulation
        approach to Greeks
    */
    class ConstrainedEvolver : public MarketModelEvolver {
      public:
        virtual ~ConstrainedEvolver() {}
        //! call once
        virtual void setConstraintType(
            const std::vector<Size>& startIndexOfSwapRate,
            const std::vector<Size>& EndIndexOfSwapRate) = 0;
        //! call before each path
        virtual void setThisConstraint(
            const std::vector<Rate>& rateConstraints,
            const std::vector<bool>& isConstraintActive) = 0;
    };

}

#endif