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From: "Stephen Colebourne" <scolebourne@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: [Collections] Random iterator?
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:54:02 -0000
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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" <hsilberm@pdi.com>
> 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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