MetricMatrixCalc.h

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#include <RDGeneral/export.h>
#ifndef __RD_METRICMATRIXCAL_H__
#define __RD_METRICMATRIXCAL_H__
 
#include "MetricFuncs.h"
#include <RDGeneral/Invariant.h>
 
namespace RDDataManip {
 
/*! \brief A generic metric matrix calculator (e.g similarity matrix or
 *         distance matrix)
 *
 *  This templated class needs some explanation
 *    vectType is a container that can support [] operator
 *    entryType is the type of entry that is returned by the [] operator
 *  Examples of the container include PySequenceHolder which is wrapper around
 *  a python sequence objects like lists and tuples.
 *  Examples of the entryType include a sequence of double, floats, and
 *ExplicitBitVects
 *
 */
template <class vectType, class entryType>
class MetricMatrixCalc {
 public:
  /*! \brief Default Constructor
   *
   */
  MetricMatrixCalc() {}
 
  /*! \brief Set the metric function
   *
   * Set the pointer to the mertic funvtion to be used by the metric calculator
   *
   * ARGUMENTS:
   *
   *  mFunc - pointer to the metric function
   */
  void setMetricFunc(double (*mFunc)(const entryType &, const entryType &,
                                     unsigned int)) {
    dp_metricFunc = mFunc;
  }
 
  /*! \brief The calculator function
   *
   * ARGUMENTS:
   *
   *  descrips - vectType container with a entryType for each item
   *  nItems - the number of item in the descripts.
   *           In several cases this argument is irrelvant since vectType
   *probably supports
   *           a size() member function, But we would like this interface to
   *take for example
   *           a double** and correctly parse the row and columns.
   *  dim - the dimension of the sequences
   *  distMat - pointer to an array to write the distance matrix to
   *            it is assumed that the right sized array has already be
   *allocated.
   *
   * FIX: we can probably make this function create the correct sized distMat
   *and return
   * it to the caller, but when pushing he result out to a python array not sure
   *how to
   * avoid copy the entire distance matrix in that case
   *
   * RETURNS:
   *
   *  pointer to a 1D array of doubles. Only the lower triangle elements are
   *  included in the array
   */
  void calcMetricMatrix(const vectType &descripts, unsigned int nItems,
                        unsigned int dim, double *distMat) {
    CHECK_INVARIANT(distMat, "invalid pointer to a distance matix");
 
    for (unsigned int i = 1; i < nItems; i++) {
      unsigned int itab = i * (i - 1) / 2;
      for (unsigned int j = 0; j < i; j++) {
        distMat[itab + j] = dp_metricFunc(descripts[i], descripts[j], dim);
      }
    }
  }
 
 private:
  // pointer to the metric function
  /*! \brief pointer to the metric function
   *
   * In several cases the last argument 'dim' should be irrelevant,
   * For example when entryType is a bit vector the size is of the vector
   * or the dimension can be obtained by asking the bit vector itself. However
   * we woul like this interface to support other containers lines double*
   * in which case the 'dim' value is useful in cumputing the metric.
   */
  double (*dp_metricFunc)(const entryType &, const entryType &, unsigned int);
};
};  // namespace RDDataManip
 
#endif