A Late Introduction to Jools
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A while back I wrote a small Java tools library called Jools. I never really presented it to “the world” (except for hosting it on Github. So I figured, now is my chance. Here are the features Jools provide:
Python-like Range Objects
This one is pretty straight forward
for (final int i : new Range(5)) {
players.add(new SmartPlayer(names.get(i)));
}Generating Permutations
PermutationGenerator<String> pg = new PermutationGenerator<String>("a", "b", "c");
for (List<String> permutation : pg) {
System.out.println("Permutation: " + permutation);
}This prints:
Permutation: [a, b, c]
Permutation: [a, c, b]
Permutation: [b, a, c]
Permutation: [b, c, a]
Permutation: [c, a, b]
Permutation: [c, b, a]The cool thing about this class is that it also allows to get a permutation based on its index (calculated efficiently in O(n) time, when n is the number of items (not permutation)):
System.out.println("Permutation #3: " + pg.get(3));This yields:
Permutation #3: [b, c, a]Iterable Wrapper For Looping with Indices
Similar to Python’s enumerate function:
final List<String> list = Arrays.asList("A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G");
for (final IndexedElement<String> element : new Indexer<String>(list)) {
System.out.println(element.getElement() + " : " + element.getIndex());
} That’s it. Not a big library, as I said, but it’s been helpful to me, and I hope it can be helpful to you as well!
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