Re: [Collections] Random iterator?

[Stephen Colebourne]

We don't have such a method or iterator at present. I would like to keep 
[collections] for deterministic not random effects if possible.

Stephen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hernan Silberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In my unit and load tests, I often find myself retrieving a collection of
objects from a service, and selecting a random one from the collection. 
Seems
like a common use case (for testing anyhow) and I don't think there's any
support in java.util Collections for, say, fetching a random item out of a 
Set.
It's easy enough to code by hand, but I was wondering if it's already done
somewhere in commons-collections.  A Random iterator would be really cool.

I suppose:
List theList = new ArrayList( someCollection );
Collections.shuffle( theList );
Iterator theIt = theList.iterator();
works fine too..
thnx...
hernan

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