Re: [COLLECTIONS] [DISCUSS] Possible candidate for inclusion in Commons-Collections: OrderedSet (provides composite-key based ordering of a set of values)

2016-04-11 Thread Daniel Vimont
ectively up front what differentiates an *OrderedSet *from the standard ordering/sorting options that are available. On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Daniel Vimont wrote: > I very much appreciate your feedback on this so far! > > Clearly, one major challenge before me is to provide much b

Re: [COLLECTIONS] [DISCUSS] Possible candidate for inclusion in Commons-Collections: OrderedSet (provides composite-key based ordering of a set of values)

2016-04-10 Thread Daniel Vimont
caveat: many people under 30 may not know what a card catalog is! On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 6:45 AM, Daniel Vimont wrote: > Such is the beauty of open-source development -- please do fork away -- I > would be anxious to see what you come up with! And I will look into OGNL > (had not heard of

Re: [COLLECTIONS] [DISCUSS] Possible candidate for inclusion in Commons-Collections: OrderedSet (provides composite-key based ordering of a set of values)

2016-04-08 Thread Daniel Vimont
The use of reflection in your > code is a little off-putting. One option to consider would be something > like OGNL. > > On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 9:53 AM Daniel Vimont wrote: > > > Thanks for the suggestion. I will look into emulating OrderedSet > > functionality using the

Re: [COLLECTIONS] [DISCUSS] Possible candidate for inclusion in Commons-Collections: OrderedSet (provides composite-key based ordering of a set of values)

2016-04-08 Thread Daniel Vimont
... Book 1* *Travel Bryson, Bill A Walk... Book 2* On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 8:19 PM, James Carman wrote: > Couldn't you achieve the same thing using any SortedSet and > CompareToBuilder? > On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 2:17 AM Daniel Vimont wrote: > > > Hello all,

[COLLECTIONS] [DISCUSS] Possible candidate for inclusion in Commons-Collections: OrderedSet (provides composite-key based ordering of a set of values)

2016-04-07 Thread Daniel Vimont
Hello all, I've just published a new extension to the standard Java Collections Framework to both GitHub and the Maven Central Repository, and am considering offering it up for possible inclusion in the Apache Commons Collections package. The name of the class is "OrderedSet", which is an abbrevi