commons-rng-sampling/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/rng/sampling/CollectionSampler.java

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package org.apache.commons.rng.sampling;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;

import org.apache.commons.rng.UniformRandomProvider;

/**
 * Sampling from a {@link Collection}.
 *
 * @param <T> Type of items in the collection.
 *
 * @since 1.0
 */
public class CollectionSampler<T> {
    /** Collection to be sampled from. */
    private final List<T> items;
    /** RNG. */
    private final UniformRandomProvider rng;

    /**
     * Creates a sampler.
     *
     * @param rng Generator of uniformly distributed random numbers.
     * @param collection Collection to be sampled.
     * A (shallow) copy will be stored in the created instance.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if {@code collection} is empty.
     */
    public CollectionSampler(UniformRandomProvider rng,
                             Collection<T> collection) {
        if (collection.isEmpty()) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Empty collection");
        }

        this.rng = rng;
        items = new ArrayList<T>(collection);
    }

    /**
     * Picks one of the items from the
     * {@link #CollectionSampler(UniformRandomProvider,Collection)
     * collection passed to the constructor}.
     *
     * @return a random sample.
     */
    public T sample() {
        return items.get(rng.nextInt(items.size()));
    }
}