> On 6 Mar 2020, at 02:14, Alex Herbert <alex.d.herb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The change to make the CountingBloomFilter an interface is in this PR [1].
Claude has stated in a review of the PR on GitHub that the change to
CountingBloomFilter as an interface is good.
I will now progress to updating the BloomFilter interface as previously
discussed and put that into a PR. Changes would be:
- boolean return values from the merge operations.
- remove getHasher() and switch to providing an iterator of enabled indexes
As per below:
> *public* *interface* BloomFilter {
>
> *int* andCardinality(BloomFilter other);
>
> *int* cardinality();
>
> *boolean* contains(BloomFilter other);
>
> *boolean* contains(Hasher hasher);
>
> *long*[] getBits();
>
> // Change
> PrimitiveIterator.OfInt iterator();
>
> Shape getShape();
>
>
> * // Change boolean* merge(BloomFilter other);
>
>
> *// Change boolean* merge(Hasher hasher);
>
> *int* orCardinality(BloomFilter other);
>
> *int* xorCardinality(BloomFilter other);
>
> }
Given the CountingBloomFilter provides a forEach(BitCountConsumer) method it
may be useful to also have the following method to receive all the enabled
indexes:
forEach(IntConsumer)
Thus you can use the iterator of indexes for fail-fast checking against each
index, or use the forEach method when you know you want to process all the bit
indexes. In many cases the forEach can be more efficiently implemented than an
iterator and would avoid an iterator object creation.
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/apache/commons-collections/pull/137
> <https://github.com/apache/commons-collections/pull/137>
