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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2014, United States Government, as represented by the
+ * Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * The Java Pathfinder core (jpf-core) platform is licensed under the
+ * Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
+ * in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *        http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0. 
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package gov.nasa.jpf.search.heuristic;
+
+import gov.nasa.jpf.vm.VM;
+import gov.nasa.jpf.vm.RestorableVMState;
+
+
+/**
+ * wrapper for states that are processed in an order that is
+ * defined by a heuristic (i.e. not just depends on the shape
+ * of the state graph)
+ */
+public abstract class HeuristicState {
+  
+  protected RestorableVMState vmState;
+  protected int     stateId;
+    
+  public HeuristicState (VM vm) {
+    stateId = vm.getStateId();
+    vmState = vm.getRestorableState();
+  }
+  
+  public RestorableVMState getVMState () {
+    return vmState;
+  }
+  
+  public int getStateId() {
+    return stateId;
+  }
+}