darq 0.4.0

The power of lazy-evaluated enumerables in your hands! (A port of functional LINQ from the .NET library.)

[0.4.0]

• Enumerable and all related subclasses have been removed. The package has changed over to using static extension methods on Iterable.
  • Related, the trailing "E" in method names as well as the utility factory E have been removed.
• Enumerable factory constructors have been converted into standalone factory classes (if not made redundant by existing Iterable constructors).
  • Enumerable.empty -> Iterable.empty
  • Enumerable.from -> redundant
  • Enumerable.generate -> Iterable.generate
  • Enumerable.repeat -> RepeatIterator
• A new factory class has been created: RangeIterator
  • Generates an iterable whose elements represent a range of integral values.
• Some methods have been renamed so as to not conflict with existing Iterable methods of the same name.
  • join -> joinMap
• Some methods have had functionality tweaked so as to maintain a separate identity from existing Iterable methods.
  • select: Selector argument now requires (T element, int index) as the parameters.
  • selectMany: Selector argument now requires (T element, int index) as the parameters.
• Some methods have been removed as existing methods in Iterable make them fully redundant.
  • cast
  • elementAt
  • first
  • last
  • single
  • take
  • takeWhile
  • skip
  • skipWhile
  • toList
  • toSet
  • where
• A new method has been added: segment
  • Groups the iterable into segments of an indicated size. Can optionally include any partial chunks at the end of the iterable.
• Extension getters have also been added to String to facilitate easy conversion to Iterable<String>.
  • iterable: Returns an iterable of the characters in the string.
  • iterableRunes: Returns an iterable of the characters in the string while respecting rune boundaries.

[0.3.1]

• Typedefs have been converted from a shorthand form to the full form. This should help with some type inference issues.

[0.3.0]

• Unit tests have been added to ensure Iterable built-in functions behave as expected.
• Default reducers for methods where a comparator is optional (such as aggregatorE, sumE, and orderByE) have been extended to also support Duration and BigInt.
• Custom error types have been overhauled to utilize default Dart error types:
  • UnexpectedStateError, KeyExistsError, and IntegerOverflowError now extend StateError instead of Error.
  • ConversionError now extends CastError instead of Error.
  • IncompatibleTypeError now extends UnsupportedError instead of Error.
  • NullEnumerableError, EmptyEnumerableError, and ElementNotFoundError have been merged into EnumerableError which extends StateError.
  • OperationError has been removed. Code that threw OperationError now throws StateError with a descriptive message.
• Added subtype support for ValueEnumerable for specialized behavior when the source Iterable supports various actions. (Currently the only specialized subtype is ListIterator which enables short-circuiting for countE and elementAtE methods to call the list's length property and indexer, respectively.)
• Changed countE to call the underlying iterable's length property when condition is not specified. This should enable O(1) length calculations for default Dart collections that internally implement EfficientLengthIterable.
• Changed EqualityComparer to enable global setting of default comparers of new types. For example, for a custom type Foo, the static method EqualityComparer.addDefaultEqualityComparer<Foo>(comparer) will set the global default comparer for Foo to the passed comparer values. Following this call, all calls to LINQ methods that take an optional EqualityComparer<Foo> will default to using the previously registered comparer when a comparer is not specified.

Known Issues:

• joinE and groupJoinE have a problem with the type inference of the parameters, causing the types to default to dynamic. When calling these methods while specifying an EqualityComparer, it may be necessary to explicitly state the type parameters as well as the types of parameters in any closure functions to get type inference to work properly.

[0.2.0]

• The naming convention of the enumerable methods has been changed so that they are suffixed by the letter "e" (such as selectE, joinE, whereE). This is an attempt at a compromise between keeping the names of the methods consistent with their .NET origins while avoiding conflicts with existing Iterable methods.
• Added two new factory methods to Enumerable: fromString and generator. fromString converts a String into an Enumerable that iterates over each individual character, while generator allows an iterable to be created of the specified length using a given generator function.
• countIfE has been merged with countE so that countE now has a Condition as an optional parameter. If the Condition is provided, the behavior is identical to countIfE, and if not, the behavior is identical to the original countE.
• Fixed an issue where several of the enumerable methods were not asserting on required parameters.

[0.1.2]

• Addressing pub description warnings.

[0.1.1]

• Addressing pub formatting warnings and issues.

[0.1.0]

• Initial release.