source: trunk/sources/HeuristicLab.Random/3.2/UniformItemChooser.cs @ 3381

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

namespace HeuristicLab.Random {
  /// <summary>
  /// UniformItemChooser takes a list of items selects one of the elements randomly and sets the selected element as value of output variable.
  /// </summary>
  public class UniformItemChooser : OperatorBase {
    /// <inheritdoc select="summary"/>
    public override string Description {
      get { return "Initializes the value of variable 'Value' to a random value chosen uniformly from the a list of values"; }
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Initializes a new instance of <see cref="UniformItemChooser"/> with four variable infos 
    /// (<c>Value</c>, <c>Random</c>, <c>Max</c> and <c>Min</c>), being a random number generator 
    /// between 0.0 and 1.0.
    /// </summary>
    public UniformItemChooser() {
      AddVariableInfo(new VariableInfo("Value", "The value to manipulate", typeof(IItem), VariableKind.Out));
      AddVariableInfo(new VariableInfo("Random", "The random generator to use", typeof(MersenneTwister), VariableKind.In));
      AddVariableInfo(new VariableInfo("Values", "The list of possible values", typeof(ItemList), VariableKind.In));
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Selects a random element from 'values' and sets the selected element as value of variable 'Value'
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="scope">The scope where to apply the random number generator.</param>
    /// <returns><c>null</c>.</returns>
    public override IOperation Apply(IScope scope) {
      IVariable value = scope.GetVariable(scope.TranslateName("Value"));
      MersenneTwister mt = GetVariableValue<MersenneTwister>("Random", scope, true);
      ItemList values = GetVariableValue<ItemList>("Values", scope, true);
      value.Value = values[mt.Next(values.Count)];
      return null;
    }
  }
}