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API for set operations in Java?

Asked 2011-05-03T11:32:11.190
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Is there an API for Set operations like Union, intersection, difference, Cartesian product, Function from a set to another, domain restriction and range restriction of those functions, .... in Java?

Please comment on coverage (of operations) and performance.

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I don't know any API but have used following methods do such things on Set.

public static <T> Set<T> union(Set<T> setA, Set<T> setB) {
    Set<T> tmp = new TreeSet<T>(setA);
    tmp.addAll(setB);
    return tmp;
  }

  public static <T> Set<T> intersection(Set<T> setA, Set<T> setB) {
    Set<T> tmp = new TreeSet<T>();
    for (T x : setA)
      if (setB.contains(x))
        tmp.add(x);
    return tmp;
  }

  public static <T> Set<T> difference(Set<T> setA, Set<T> setB) {
    Set<T> tmp = new TreeSet<T>(setA);
    tmp.removeAll(setB);
    return tmp;
  }

  public static <T> Set<T> symDifference(Set<T> setA, Set<T> setB) {
    Set<T> tmpA;
    Set<T> tmpB;

    tmpA = union(setA, setB);
    tmpB = intersection(setA, setB);
    return difference(tmpA, tmpB);
  }

  public static <T> boolean isSubset(Set<T> setA, Set<T> setB) {
    return setB.containsAll(setA);
  }

  public static <T> boolean isSuperset(Set<T> setA, Set<T> setB) {
    return setA.containsAll(setB);
  }

Reference: Set operations: union, intersection, difference, symmetric difference, is subset, is superset

answered 2011-05-03T11:36:49.323

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