Thank you-- that sounds like a good move to make to prevent myself from 
breaking backwards compatibility.

What would be the best way to incorporate your material into my Java 8-related 
work? Would it be best to wait for it to be merged, or is that some time away?

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A. Soroka
The University of Virginia Library

On May 2, 2015, at 3:50 AM, Claude Warren <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have ExtendedIterator contract tests in the new test suite.  So we should
> have reasonable test cover for the contract.  That code is in the old
> new_test branch and will be in the new contract test branch soon.  I you
> want I can send you the source to test your implementation with.  This will
> mean adding junit-contracts as a dependency for your tests.
> 
> Claude
> 
> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 5:26 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> Yes, in that case, the change was no more than "extends Filter<T>" ->
>> "implements Predicate<T>". No other changes.
>> 
>> You can take a look at what's going on at:
>> 
>> https://github.com/apache/jena/pull/55
>> 
>> and please comment! As a Jena newbie, I need comments. {grin}
>> 
>> ---
>> A. Soroka
>> The University of Virginia Library
>> 
>> On May 1, 2015, at 12:19 PM, Claude Warren <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> An example is:
>>> 
>>> org.apache.jena.security.utils.RDFListSecFilter
>>> 
>>> Which filters results based on user access and is used whereever a
>> RDFList
>>> (or an iterator on one) is returned .
>>> 
>>> Claude
>>> 
>>> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 5:12 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Oh, now I think I understand your point better.
>>>> 
>>>> Yes, I have already trawled that code and worked over those reusable
>> guys,
>>>> and yes, you will certainly still be able to combine and reuse
>> Predicates
>>>> in the same way that you have used Filters. When I get this PR in, you
>> can
>>>> see some examples of that.
>>>> 
>>>> A Java 8 Predicate is just an interface that looks much like Jena's
>>>> Filter, which can benefit from the -> lamda syntax and which is
>> designed to
>>>> fit into the Java 8 language APIs (e.g. for use with Streams).
>>>> 
>>>> ---
>>>> A. Soroka
>>>> The University of Virginia Library
>>>> 
>>>> On May 1, 2015, at 12:07 PM, Claude Warren <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> We have a number of places where Filter objects are created and reused
>>>>> (usueally due to complexity or to reduce the code footprint in terms of
>>>>> debugging).  Will it still be possible to define these complex filters
>>>> and
>>>>> use them in multiple places.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The permissions system does this in that it creates a filter for
>> RDFNodes
>>>>> and then applies them to the 3 elements in a triple to create a single
>>>>> filter for triples.
>>>>> 
>>>>> There are several cases like this.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I will have to look at the permissions code to find a concrete example,
>>>> but
>>>>> I think this is the case.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Claude
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 4:53 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]
>>> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> As for the Filter implementation..... will that be transparant to
>>>> filter
>>>>>> implementations?  I assume so.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I think this was in response to my question about Filter?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If you mean that things that currently implement Filter (outside of
>>>> Jena's
>>>>>> own code) will not be greatly affected, then yes, so I would hope. I
>>>> will
>>>>>> @Deprecated Filter and its methods, but that seems to me to be all
>> that
>>>> is
>>>>>> needed for this first step.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I should have a PR with this later today, when you can observe some
>> real
>>>>>> code and give me feedback.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> A. Soroka
>>>>>> The University of Virginia Library
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On May 1, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Claude Warren <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I don't see any reason not to remove the Node functions.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> As for the Filter implementation..... will that be transparant to
>>>> filter
>>>>>>> implementations?  I assume so.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> (mainly for Claude - I did check jena-pemissions and didn't see any
>>>>>> usage)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> There are a bunch of deprecated statics in Node (the correct way is
>> to
>>>>>> use
>>>>>>>> NodeFactory)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Node.createAnon()
>>>>>>>> Node.createAnon(AnonId)
>>>>>>>> Node.createLiteral(LiteralLabel)
>>>>>>>> Node.createURI(String)
>>>>>>>> Node.createVariable(String)
>>>>>>>> Node.createLiteral(String)
>>>>>>>> Node.createLiteral(String, String, boolean)
>>>>>>>> Node.createLiteral(String, String, RDFDatatype)
>>>>>>>> Node.createLiteral(String, RDFDatatype)
>>>>>>>> Node.createUncachedLiteral(Object, String, RDFDatatype)
>>>>>>>> Node.createUncachedLiteral(Object, RDFDatatype)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> It looks like they are not used by the jena codebase and are there
>> for
>>>>>>>> compatibility only.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Any reason not to remove them?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>     Andy
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
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