topic Re: Intersection of two ModelItemCollection objects in Navisworks API Forum

Intersection of two ModelItemCollection objects

rade_tomovic — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 10:27:45 GMT

Hello,

is there any built-in method which can return only model items contained in both ModelItemCollection-s (something like the intersection of two sets)? If not, what is the best way to achieve this? I was thinking about HashSet<ModelItemCollection> in order to use built-in HashSet logical operations, but I'm not quite sure how Navisworks Equals method works (or ValueEquals or whatever similar I've found in the API) so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Re: Intersection of two ModelItemCollection objects

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 10:37:16 GMT

I'd try the built in Intersect of ModelItemCollection to start with, and if it doesn't work definitly hashset but using the modelitem InstanceHashCode.

Might be able to use the InstanceHashCode in lambda with the built in intersect too.

Re: Intersection of two ModelItemCollection objects

rade_tomovic — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 12:14:38 GMT

There is no built-in method for the intersection, which will return a collection of intersected items, as far as I know.

Re: Intersection of two ModelItemCollection objects

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 21:54:23 GMT

I have an extension method from Linq showing up. Don't know how it would do performance wise.

Re: Intersection of two ModelItemCollection objects

rade_tomovic — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 06:56:52 GMT

Yes, this is a standard LINQ method which assumes that used collections have implemented IEqualityComparer. Maybe I can redefine my questions - I have a ModelItemCollection as an input and I'm using Navisworks Search API upon that collection. I need a collection which contains model items which weren't found by the current search.

Re: Intersection of two ModelItemCollection objects

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 08:54:07 GMT

throwing a couple ideas to explore:

1. I have used modelitem as key of dictionary in the past fairly efficiently so I assume they do implement some comparison method (not sure what dictionary use)...

2. have you tried running the opposite search on the same set (negating the right conditions)?

3. there is an invert method on collection so if you create a collection of the result and inverse that, it should give you the rest

Re: Intersection of two ModelItemCollection objects

rade_tomovic — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 09:02:03 GMT

Thanks for the ideas, I will try the first and/or the second. Model item (as well as almost every object in programming) implements Equals method, which should return true if both model items pointing to the same reference (memory location). Regarding the 3rd one, Invert method works only in a way to return invert selection using Navisworks document as an input, not the specific part (what I need here).