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/* Copyright 2011-2014 Joseph Kendall-Morwick This file is part of the Funcles library. Funcles is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Lesser GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Funcles is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the Lesser GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the Lesser GNU General Public License along with Funcles. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ package net.sourcedestination.util; import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException; import java.util.function.Function; import com.google.common.cache.CacheBuilder; import com.google.common.cache.CacheLoader; import com.google.common.cache.LoadingCache; /** an interface with two additional functions to assist in managing * an instance of a memoized function * * @author Joseph Kendall-Morwick <jmorwick@indiana.edu> * @version 2.1 * @param <F> return type * @param <T> parameter type */ public interface MemoizedFunction<F, T> extends Function<F, T> { /** returns the cache associated with this memoized function */ public LoadingCache<F, T> getCache(); /** returns the function that is being memoized */ public Function<F, T> getOriginalFunction(); /** modifies a function to cache its results * * @param f function to be memoized * @return memoized function f */ public static <F, T> MemoizedFunction<F, T> memoize(final Function<F, T> f) { return memoize(f, CacheBuilder.newBuilder()); } /** modifies a function to cache its results * * @param f function to be memoized * @param builder a cache builder which creates a cache for mapping inputs to outputs * @return memozied function f */ public static <F, T> MemoizedFunction<F, T> memoize(final Function<F, T> f, final CacheBuilder<? super F, ? super T> builder) { final LoadingCache<F, T> cache = builder.build(CacheLoader.from(f::apply)); return new MemoizedFunction<F, T>() { public T apply(final F input) { try { return cache.get(input); } catch (ExecutionException e) { //Functions can't throw checked exceptions, so this never happens return null; } } @Override public LoadingCache<F, T> getCache() { return cache; } @Override public Function<F, T> getOriginalFunction() { return f; } }; } }