#ifndef RecoTracker_PixelSeeding_HitTripletGenerator_h
#define RecoTracker_PixelSeeding_HitTripletGenerator_h

/** abstract interface for generators of hit triplets pairs
 *  compatible with a TrackingRegion.
 */

#include "RecoTracker/TkTrackingRegions/interface/OrderedHitsGenerator.h"
#include "RecoTracker/PixelSeeding/interface/OrderedHitTriplets.h"

#include "FWCore/Utilities/interface/RunningAverage.h"

class TrackingRegion;
namespace edm {
  class Event;
  class EventSetup;
}  // namespace edm
#include <vector>

class HitTripletGenerator : public OrderedHitsGenerator {
public:
  HitTripletGenerator(unsigned int size = 500);
  HitTripletGenerator(HitTripletGenerator const& other) : localRA(other.localRA.mean()) {}

  ~HitTripletGenerator() override {}

  const OrderedHitTriplets& run(const TrackingRegion& region, const edm::Event& ev, const edm::EventSetup& es) final;

  // temporary interface, for bckwd compatibility
  virtual void hitTriplets(const TrackingRegion& reg, OrderedHitTriplets& prs, const edm::EventSetup& es) {}

  virtual void hitTriplets(const TrackingRegion& reg,
                           OrderedHitTriplets& prs,
                           const edm::Event& ev,
                           const edm::EventSetup& es) = 0;

  void clear() final;

private:
  OrderedHitTriplets theTriplets;
  edm::RunningAverage localRA;
};

#endif
