Thread: [cilib-devel] Vote: Making google-collections a hard dependency

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Hi all,

I would like to propose the addition of google-collections as a dependency of 
CIlib. The additional functionality would be really useful.

Regards,
Gary

Second!
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On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Gary Pampara<gpa...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to propose the addition of google-collections as a dependency of
> CIlib. The additional functionality would be really useful.
>
> Regards,
> Gary

I vote Yes, but we should think at looking into using more iterators (and
iterables) in that case, especially within our collection and topology
classes as they focus heavily on it (see the FAQ on their wiki, or go
through the API, if you haven't done so already). Also they have a lot of
classes that cannot be extended (mostly to do with Immutable collections),
just something to remember.

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Gary Pampara <gpa...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I would like to propose the addition of google-collections as a dependency
> of
> CIlib. The additional functionality would be really useful.
>
> Regards,
> Gary
>
>
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What are the additional functionalities?

Gary Pampara wrote:
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>
> I would like to propose the addition of google-collections as a dependency of 
> CIlib. The additional functionality would be really useful.
>
> Regards,
> Gary
>
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The list is quite long. The main aspects are more type safety and the
following list
(as taken from the home page of google-collections):

    * New Collection types: Multimap, Multiset, BiMap and others
    * High-performance immutable implementations of the standard collection
types, for example ImmutableSet
    * MapMaker, a builder for concurrent hash maps with many advanced
features
    * Ordering, which can only be described as a "Comparator on steroids"
    * Iterators and Iterables utility classes: element-based equality,
cycle, concat, partition, filter with predicate, transform with function,
and much more
    * Lists, Sets and Maps utility classes: a plethora of convenient
factory methods and much more
    * Forwarding collections, such as ForwardingSet, allowing you to
customize collection behavior without subclassing
    * Implementation helpers like AbstractIterator
    * and still more

The functionality I like is the ability to use predicates, filters and
transformations on collections, not to mention the Immutable collections. I
envisage some very useful applications, especially to entities.

Regards,
Gary

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:07:01 +0200, Andries Engelbrecht <en...@cs...>
wrote:
> What are the additional functionalities?
> 
> Gary Pampara wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like to propose the addition of google-collections as a
>> dependency of
>> CIlib. The additional functionality would be really useful.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Gary
>>
>>
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