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  1. OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC
  2. ODATA-1075

Introduce operator for checking whether a collection is a subset or equal to another collection

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    • Type: Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Priority: Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Affects Version/s: V4.01_CSD02
    • Fix Version/s: V4.01_CSD02
    • Component/s: URL Conventions
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    • Proposal:
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      Restrict "in" to mean just "member of"
      Add "hassubset" function:

      1) hassubset always requires that each element of the right argument occurs at least as many times in the left argument, and that order does not matter so:
      hassubset([1,2],[1,1,2]) => false
      hassubset should never take order (or gaps) into account:
      hassubset([4,1,3],[3,1]) => true
      hassubset([4,1,3],[4,3]) => true

      2) for ordered collections, add a "hassubsequence" function that takes order into account and ignores gaps:
      hassubsequence([4,1,3], [3,1]) => false
      hassubsequence([4,1,3],[4,3]) => true

      3) add support for ordered collections to contains (that takes gaps into account) as well as startswith, endswith, indexof, and substring.

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      Restrict "in" to mean just "member of" Add "hassubset" function: 1) hassubset always requires that each element of the right argument occurs at least as many times in the left argument, and that order does not matter so: hassubset( [1,2] , [1,1,2] ) => false hassubset should never take order (or gaps) into account: hassubset( [4,1,3] , [3,1] ) => true hassubset( [4,1,3] , [4,3] ) => true 2) for ordered collections, add a "hassubsequence" function that takes order into account and ignores gaps: hassubsequence( [4,1,3] , [3,1] ) => false hassubsequence( [4,1,3] , [4,3] ) => true 3) add support for ordered collections to contains (that takes gaps into account) as well as startswith, endswith, indexof, and substring.
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      https://tools.oasis-open.org/version-control/browse/wsvn/odata/trunk/4.01%20spec/ABNF/odata-abnf-construction-rules.txt?op=diff&rev=1047 https://tools.oasis-open.org/version-control/browse/wsvn/odata/trunk/4.01%20spec/ABNF/odata-abnf-testcases.xml?op=diff&rev=1047 https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/60941/odata-v4.01-wd02-part2-url-conventions-2017-06-07.docx

      Description

      Currently we "overload" the in operator to be "subset of" if the left operand is a collection.

      This would block us from introducing collections of collections, and checking whether a collection is an item of a collection of collections.

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            • Assignee:
              handl Ralf Handl
              Reporter:
              handl Ralf Handl
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