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Paul King commented on GROOVY-11649:
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The {{partitionPoint}} method is handy when you have some kind of partitioned
aggregate and you want to insert into the aggregate while maintaining the
partitions. Often, this will mean you have a sorted list and you want to insert
while maintaining the sort order.
Groovy's sort variants give you lists that could benefit from this method.
Consider this example (we'll use the mutating variant):
{code:groovy}
def even = { it % 2 == 0 }
def odd = { it % 2 != 0 }
def list = [4, 7, 15, 12, 6, 3, 5]
list.sort(even)
assert list == [7, 15, 3, 5, 4, 12, 6]
{code}
Now supposed we want to add more numbers into this list. We can add them and
resort, but {{partitionPoint}} let's us know where to add to retain the sorted
properties:
{code:groovy}
def additions = [1, 6, 8, 7]
additions.each {
def idx = list.partitionPoint(odd)
list.add(idx, it)
}
assert list == [7, 15, 3, 5, 1, 7, 8, 6, 4, 12, 6]
{code}
It is also useful for working with the partitions:
{code:groovy}
def idx = list.partitionPoint(odd)
assert list[0..<idx].every(odd)
assert list[idx..-1].every(even)
{code}
Does Java offer some better way to do this? It does offer the {{PriorityQueue}}
and this means there is no need for {{partitionPoint}} to insert into such a
collection, but it is a little cumbersome to use:
{code:groovy}
def evenComparator = { a, b -> (a % 2 == 0) <=> (b % 2 == 0) }
def ordered = new PriorityQueue(evenComparator)
ordered.addAll([4, 7, 15, 12, 6, 3, 5])
ordered.addAll(additions)
println ordered.toList() // [7, 1, 15, 4, 7, 3, 5, 12, 6, 8, 6]
while(!ordered.empty) {
println ordered.poll()
} // 7 1 7 15 3 5 6 6 4 12 8
assert ordered.empty
{code}
The standard iterator ordered doesn't follow the priority. The "poll" method
can be used but the queue will be exhausted of elements after using it.
What about arrays? We can sort non-primitive arrays:
{code:groovy}
Integer[] numsArr = [4, 7, 15, 12, 6, 3, 5]
assert numsArr.sort(evenComparator) == [7, 15, 3, 5, 4, 12, 6]
{code}
But, we currently don't have sort variants for primitive arrays. Arrays.sort is
available without the comparator, but no variant with comparators exist. This
alone doesn't make partitionPoint less useful, but since arrays are of fixed
size, we also don't have the ability to insert an extra into an array at a
given index. I think this makes {{partitionPoint}} less useful for arrays.
> Create partitionPoint extension method variants
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>
> Key: GROOVY-11649
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-11649
> Project: Groovy
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Paul King
> Assignee: Paul King
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 5.x
>
>
> See: https://github.com/apache/groovy/pull/2210
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