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package org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.impl.similarity;

import java.util.Collection;

import org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.common.Refreshable;
import org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.common.TasteException;
import org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.impl.common.Cache;
import org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.impl.common.FullRunningAverage;
import org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.impl.common.Retriever;
import org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.impl.common.RunningAverage;
import org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.model.DataModel;
import org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.model.PreferenceArray;
import org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.similarity.PreferenceInferrer;

/**
 * 
 * Implementations of this interface compute an inferred preference for a user and an item that the user has
 * not expressed any preference for. This might be an average of other preferences scores from that user, for
 * example. This technique is sometimes called "default voting".
 * 
 */
public final class AveragingPreferenceInferrer implements PreferenceInferrer {
  
  private static final Float ZERO = 0.0f;
  
  private final DataModel dataModel;
  private final Cache averagePreferenceValue;
  
  public AveragingPreferenceInferrer(DataModel dataModel) throws TasteException {
    this.dataModel = dataModel;
    Retriever retriever = new PrefRetriever();
    averagePreferenceValue = new Cache<>(retriever, dataModel.getNumUsers());
    refresh(null);
  }
  
  @Override
  public float inferPreference(long userID, long itemID) throws TasteException {
    return averagePreferenceValue.get(userID);
  }
  
  @Override
  public void refresh(Collection alreadyRefreshed) {
    averagePreferenceValue.clear();
  }
  
  private final class PrefRetriever implements Retriever {
    
    @Override
    public Float get(Long key) throws TasteException {
      PreferenceArray prefs = dataModel.getPreferencesFromUser(key);
      int size = prefs.length();
      if (size == 0) {
        return ZERO;
      }
      RunningAverage average = new FullRunningAverage();
      for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
        average.addDatum(prefs.getValue(i));
      }
      return (float) average.getAverage();
    }
  }
  
  @Override
  public String toString() {
    return "AveragingPreferenceInferrer";
  }
  
}