I think that it should return an empty filter as the javadoc says
On Fri 4 Oct 2024, 15:53 Gary D. Gregory, wrote:
> See the new disabled test BloomFilterExtractorTest.
>
> Gary
>
> On 2024/10/04 14:51:55 "Gary D. Gregory" wrote:
> > Hi Claude and all,
> >
> > The method:
> >
> >
> org.apache.c
Thx Gary. I will review this weekend.
On Fri 4 Oct 2024, 15:41 Gary D. Gregory, wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I wrote a bunch of comments in the PR.
>
> Gary
>
> On 2024/10/02 10:57:53 Tushar Kapila wrote:
> > I don't contribute code. But looking at the dictionary meaning Scribe
> fits.
> > So my vote i
OK, but how do you create an empty filter?
Gary
On Fri, Oct 4, 2024, 12:54 PM Claude Warren wrote:
> I think that it should return an empty filter as the javadoc says
>
>
> On Fri 4 Oct 2024, 15:53 Gary D. Gregory, wrote:
>
> > See the new disabled test BloomFilterExtractorTest.
> >
> > Gary
>
Hi all,
I wrote a bunch of comments in the PR.
Gary
On 2024/10/02 10:57:53 Tushar Kapila wrote:
> I don't contribute code. But looking at the dictionary meaning Scribe fits.
> So my vote is Scribe.
>
> a word that fits and not confused with existing class/ responsibility?
>
> verb
> 1.
> liter
See the new disabled test BloomFilterExtractorTest.
Gary
On 2024/10/04 14:51:55 "Gary D. Gregory" wrote:
> Hi Claude and all,
>
> The method:
>
> org.apache.commons.collections4.bloomfilter.BloomFilterExtractor.flatten()
>
> is documented as always returning a BloomFilter:
>
> /**
>
Hi Claude and all,
The method:
org.apache.commons.collections4.bloomfilter.BloomFilterExtractor.flatten()
is documented as always returning a BloomFilter:
/**
* Create a standard (non-layered) Bloom filter by merging all of the
layers. If
* the filter is empty this method will re
You cannot return an empty BloomFilter when there is no array of
BloomFilters to flatten. The BloomFilter is tied to a Shape. Without a
shape you cannot know what size filter to create. So we have to return
null or throw an exception. Whatever choice must be documented.
Note we do not currently ch
The problem with returning null is that all call sites must now check for
null or end up throwing an NPE. I'd prefer to fail sooner rather than
later, so I'd go with throwing an exception and updating the Javadoc.
WDYT?
Gary
On Fri, Oct 4, 2024, 1:30 PM Alex Herbert wrote:
> You cannot return
