ReusableBuilder is a marker trait that indicates that a Builder can be reused to build more than one instance of a collection. In particular, calling result() followed by clear() will produce a collection and reset the builder to begin building a new collection of the same type.
In general no method other than clear() may be called after result(). It is up to subclasses to implement and to document other allowed sequences of operations (e.g. calling other methods after result() in order to obtain different snapshots of a collection under construction).
Type parameters
Elem
the type of elements that get added to the builder.
After a call to result, the behavior of all other methods is undefined save for clear(). If clear() is called, then the builder is reset and may be used to build another instance.
Attributes
Returns
a collection containing the elements added to this builder.
The number of elements in the collection under construction, if it can be cheaply computed, -1 otherwise. The default implementation always returns -1.
Gives a hint that one expects the result of this builder to have the same size as the given collection, plus some delta.
Gives a hint that one expects the result of this builder to have the same size as the given collection, plus some delta. This will provide a hint only if the collection has a known size Some builder classes will optimize their representation based on the hint. However, builder implementations are still required to work correctly even if the hint is wrong, i.e. a different number of elements is added.
Value parameters
coll
the collection which serves as a hint for the result's size.
delta
a correction to add to the coll.size to produce the size hint.
Gives a hint how many elements are expected to be added when the next result is called.
Gives a hint how many elements are expected to be added when the next result is called. Some builder classes will optimize their representation based on the hint. However, builder implementations are still required to work correctly even if the hint is wrong, i.e. a different number of elements is added.
Gives a hint how many elements are expected to be added when the next result is called, together with an upper bound given by the size of some other collection.
Gives a hint how many elements are expected to be added when the next result is called, together with an upper bound given by the size of some other collection. Some builder classes will optimize their representation based on the hint. However, builder implementations are still required to work correctly even if the hint is wrong, i.e. a different number of elements is added.
Value parameters
boundingColl
the bounding collection. If it is an IndexedSeqLike, then sizes larger than collection's size are reduced.