source: branches/Persistence Test/HeuristicLab.Permutation/3.3/RandomPermutationGenerator.cs @ 4071

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using HeuristicLab.Core;
using HeuristicLab.Data;

namespace HeuristicLab.Permutation {
  /// <summary>
  /// Generates a randomly shuffled permuation.
  /// </summary>
  public class RandomPermutationGenerator : OperatorBase {
    /// <inheritdoc select="summary"/>
    public override string Description {
      get { return @"TODO\r\nOperator description still missing ..."; }
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Initializes a new instance of <see cref="RandomPermutationGenerator"/> with three variable infos
    /// (<c>Length</c>, <c>Random</c> and <c>Permutation</c>).
    /// </summary>
    public RandomPermutationGenerator()
      : base() {
      AddVariableInfo(new VariableInfo("Length", "Permutation length", typeof(IntData), VariableKind.In));
      AddVariableInfo(new VariableInfo("Random", "Pseudo random number generator", typeof(IRandom), VariableKind.In));
      AddVariableInfo(new VariableInfo("Permutation", "Created random permutation", typeof(Permutation), VariableKind.New));
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Generates a randomly shuffled permutation.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="random">The random number generator.</param>
    /// <param name="length">The length of the permutation to create.</param>
    /// <returns>The generated permuation as int array.</returns>
    public static int[] Apply(IRandom random, int length) {
      int[] perm = new int[length];

      for (int i = 0; i < length; i++)
        perm[i] = i;

      // Knuth shuffle
      int index, tmp;
      for (int i = 0; i < length - 1; i++) {
        index = random.Next(i, length);
        tmp = perm[i];
        perm[i] = perm[index];
        perm[index] = tmp;
      }
      return perm;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Generates a randomly shuffled permutation.
    /// </summary>
    /// <remarks>Calls <see cref="Apply(HeuristicLab.Core.IRandom, int)"/>.</remarks>
    /// <param name="scope">The current scope with the variables.</param>
    /// <returns><c>null</c>.</returns>
    public override IOperation Apply(IScope scope) {
      IRandom random = GetVariableValue<IRandom>("Random", scope, true);
      IntData length = GetVariableValue<IntData>("Length", scope, true);

      int[] perm = Apply(random, length.Data);
      scope.AddVariable(new Variable(scope.TranslateName("Permutation"), new Permutation(perm)));

      return null;
    }
  }
}