Re: [Vala] Libgee's Roadmap proposal

["Didier \"Ptitjes\"" <ptitjes free fr>]

Hi Tomaž,

Quikee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A little more than a year ago I have made a proposal to extend LibGee
> when I rewrote the tests for it, but at that time there was not much
> interest in the changes. It may be good to repeat what I had in mind
> at that time:
>
> > I would also like to propose an extension to the interfaces in form of additional convenient / often used 
> > methods. What I had in mind is this:
> >
> > Collection interface:
> > - void add_all(Collection) - Adds all items from the input collection to this collection. Convenient for 
> > joining collections. Java also has this on the interface of Collection.
> > - bool contains_all(Collection) - Checks if all items in the input collection are present in this 
> > collection. Convenient for checking items for example if "a" AND "b" exist in collection.
> > - bool contains_any(Collection) - Checks if any items in the input collection are present in this 
> > collection. Convenient for checking items for example if "a" OR "b" exist in collection.
> > - bool is_empty() - special state of a collection when it doesn't contain any value. Added because it is 
> > clearer as list.size == 0.
> >
> > List interface
> > - G first()
> > - G last() - First and last items are often special - it adds better clarity to the algorithm if they 
> > don't need to be "addressed" as list.get(0) or worse list.get(list.size -1).
> >
> > Set interface
> >
> > Map interface
> > - void set_all(Map) - Same as add_all for collections.
> > - expose Node<K,V> and make it possible to iterate through Nodes:
> > foreach (Node<int,int> item in map.get_nodes()) {
> > }
> >
> > Iterators
> >  - It would be convenient to have a reverse iterator for lists which would also allow to iterate backwards.
> >  - class with special iterators/iterables that can iterate Forward / Backwards, skip elements, iterate 
> > through enumerated list, generators
>
> Some of the things have already been proposed and there are other
> things on my mind that could be done.

Indeed all those would be very nice contributions!!

> I still have the code of the changes (including tests) somewhere - I
> will seek them out and merge them with the latest libgee version.

I hope you mean rebase :)

> Maybe it would be a good thing to add on the libgee wiki a subpage
> with proposed changes/additions so that all this things aren't
> forgotten.

That would be a good idea, yeah.

Best regards, Didier.