Hi all.

On Wed, 08 Aug 2018 19:59:24 +0200, Gilles wrote:
Hello Rob.

On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 12:44:16 -0400, Rob Tompkins wrote:
@Gilles - thoughts here?? Just kinda what I was thinking, but I’m
only a +0 on this change. So, if you want to revert it before going up
with 1.1, that’s fine.

I don't understand this change after what I answered to Gary's strange
proposal.
The comment is *wrong*. As I said previously, the base class provides
boiler-plate code; that is *not* deprecated.  The issue is that those
methods were not meant to be used further down the hierarchy (in user's subclasses). [And now, furthermore, they are not used anymore in class
"PoissonSampler", following the change in RNG-50 (delegation to other
classes).]
The sampler classes should have been made "final"; but now, this change would also be "breaking" (even though I doubt about legitimate use-cases
for inherithing from the sampler implementations).

Assuming it's unlikely that application developers would have
 * called protected methods of "SamplerBase",[1]
 * create subclasses of "SamplerBase",[1]
 * create subclasses of the sampler classes,[1]
I suggest to
 * make "SamplerBase" package private
 * make the sampler clases "final".

The above are the *less* intrusive fixes, as they would only
potentially impact application developers by making them aware
that they have made incorrect usage of an *inadvertently*
public API.  Correct usage will not be impacted even though
the change is not BC.[2]

Any objection to that fix?[3]

Regards,
Gilles

[1] Rationale: (a) There is no reason to do that and
               (b) "Commons RNG" isn't much used at this point:
http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.commons/commons-rng-sampling/usages
[2] I recall that a similar situation (BC breaking in a minor
    release) occurred in CM, at a time where the number of
    potential users was much larger.
[3] I'll add a prominent warning in the changelog to the effect
    that people wanting to continue with incorrect usage of the
    samplers should not upgrade. ;-)


Please revert.

Thanks,
Gilles


-Rob

On Aug 8, 2018, at 12:42 PM, chtom...@apache.org wrote:

Repository: commons-rng
Updated Branches:
 refs/heads/1.1 50b984b1d -> f8159f28a


Adding PoissonSampler deprecations. Use the correct faster public methods


Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/commons-rng/repo
Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/commons-rng/commit/f8159f28 Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/commons-rng/tree/f8159f28 Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/commons-rng/diff/f8159f28

Branch: refs/heads/1.1
Commit: f8159f28a52197d0e7b55e39b115702147cf57a0
Parents: 50b984b
Author: Rob Tompkins <chtom...@gmail.com>
Authored: Wed Aug 8 12:42:45 2018 -0400
Committer: Rob Tompkins <chtom...@gmail.com>
Committed: Wed Aug 8 12:42:45 2018 -0400


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.../sampling/distribution/PoissonSampler.java | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 42 insertions(+)

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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/commons-rng/blob/f8159f28/commons-rng-sampling/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/rng/sampling/distribution/PoissonSampler.java

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diff --git a/commons-rng-sampling/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/rng/sampling/distribution/PoissonSampler.java b/commons-rng-sampling/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/rng/sampling/distribution/PoissonSampler.java
index d0733ba..29d0e4e 100644
--- a/commons-rng-sampling/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/rng/sampling/distribution/PoissonSampler.java +++ b/commons-rng-sampling/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/rng/sampling/distribution/PoissonSampler.java
@@ -67,6 +67,48 @@ public class PoissonSampler
        return poissonSampler.sample();
    }

+    /**
+     * @return a random value from a uniform distribution in the
+     * interval {@code [0, 1)}.
+ * @deprecated - one should be using the {@link PoissonSampler#sample()} method,
+     * as it is considerably faster.
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    protected double nextDouble() {
+        return super.nextDouble();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @return a random {@code int} value.
+ * @deprecated - one should be using the {@link PoissonSampler#sample()} method,
+     * as it is considerably faster.
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    protected int nextInt() {
+        return super.nextInt();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param max Upper bound (excluded).
+ * @return a random {@code int} value in the interval {@code [0, max)}. + * @deprecated - one should be using the {@link PoissonSampler#sample()} method,
+     *      * as it is considerably faster.
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    protected int nextInt(int max) {
+        return super.nextInt(max);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @return a random {@code long} value.
+ * @deprecated - one should be using the {@link PoissonSampler#sample()} method,
+     *      * as it is considerably faster.
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    protected long nextLong() {
+        return super.nextLong();
+    }
+
    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override
    public String toString() {



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