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Bulk Operations

Most types in the Function Development Kit represent built-in functions that provide access to bulks of objects.
They extend the types 'Bulk' and 'BuiltInFunction'.

Examples: Entity, Link, Event, ..

Bulk

BuiltInFunction

It is common practice at Diafunc to work with types that represent bulks rather than single elements.
Even if you want to work with a single element only, you use a bulk type that only contains this element.
Therefore, most operations are bulk-oriented even though the types are named in the singular.

Union

Elements which are in A, in B, or in both A and B

Union

var union = a.union(b);

Intersection

All elements of A that also belong to B

Intersection

var intersection = a.intersection(b);

Difference

Elements of A that don't belong to B

Difference

var difference = a.difference(b);

Symmetric Difference

Elements which are in either of the sets, but not in their intersection

Symmetric Difference

var symmetricDifference = a.symmetricDifference(b);

Filtering and Sorting

Every bulk can be filtered with a custom predicate and sorted by a custom key extractor. For bulks of selections there are additional dedicated operations; filtering and sorting of selections is covered in detail on the Selections page.

Uniqueness

Filtering duplicate selections to ensure uniqueness

Uniqueness

var uniqueElements = a.distinct();

Evaluation

The Function Development Kit (FDK) supports many built-in functions to evaluate a bulk:

Evaluation

var isDisjoint = a.disjoint(b);
var isSubset = a.subset(b);
var isProperSubset = a.properSubset(b);
var isSuperset = a.superset(b);
var isProperSuperset = a.properSuperset(b);

var allMatch = bulk.all(predicate);
var anyMatches = bulk.any(predicate);
var min3Match = bulk.min(3, predicate);
var exact3Match = bulk.exact(3, predicate);
var max3Match = bulk.max(3, predicate);
var noneMatch = bulk.none(predicate);

var count = bulk.count();
var exists = bulk.exists();
var notExists = bulk.notExists();

What next?

Selections