readability review for luken

ui/gfx/geometry/r_tree_base.h

+// Copyright 2014 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+// found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// Provides an implementation the parts of the RTree data structure that don't
+// require knowledge of the generic key type. Don't use these objects directly,
+// rather specialize the RTree<> object in r_tree.h. This file defines the
+// internal objects of an RTree, namely Nodes (internal nodes of the tree) and
+// Records, which hold (key, rectangle) pairs.
+
+#ifndef UI_GFX_GEOMETRY_R_TREE_BASE_H_
+#define UI_GFX_GEOMETRY_R_TREE_BASE_H_
+
+#include <list>
+#include <vector>
+
+#include "base/containers/hash_tables.h"
+#include "base/macros.h"
+#include "base/memory/scoped_ptr.h"
+#include "base/memory/scoped_vector.h"
+#include "ui/gfx/geometry/rect.h"
+#include "ui/gfx/gfx_export.h"
+
+namespace gfx {
+
+class GFX_EXPORT RTreeBase {
+ protected:
+  class NodeBase;
+  class RecordBase;
+
+  typedef std::vector<const RecordBase*> Records;
+  typedef ScopedVector<NodeBase> Nodes;
+
+  RTreeBase(size_t min_children, size_t max_children);
+  ~RTreeBase();
+
+  // Protected data structure class for storing internal Nodes or leaves with
+  // Records.
+  class GFX_EXPORT NodeBase {
+   public:
+    virtual ~NodeBase();
+
+    // Appends to |records_out| the set of Records in this subtree with rects
+    // that intersect |query_rect|.  Avoids clearing |records_out| so that it
+    // can be called recursively.
+    virtual void AppendIntersectingRecords(
+        const Rect& query_rect, Records* records_out) const = 0;
+
+    // Returns all records stored in the subtree rooted at this node. Appends to
+    // |matches_out| without clearing.
+    virtual void AppendAllRecords(Records* records_out) const = 0;
+
+    // Returns NULL if no children. Does not recompute bounds.
+    virtual scoped_ptr<NodeBase> RemoveAndReturnLastChild() = 0;
+
+    // Returns -1 for Records, or the height of this subtree for Nodes.  The
+    // height of a leaf Node (a Node containing only Records) is 0, a leaf's
+    // parent is 1, etc. Note that in an R*-Tree, all branches from the root
+    // Node will be the same height.
+    virtual const int Level() const = 0;
+
+    // Recomputes our bounds by taking the union of all child rects, then calls
+    // recursively on our parent so that ultimately all nodes up to the root
+    // recompute their bounds.
+    void RecomputeBoundsUpToRoot();
+
+    NodeBase* parent() { return parent_; }
+    const NodeBase* const_parent() const { return parent_; }

[Peter Kasting, 2014/06/03 23:52:18]

From
http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml?showone=Functi...
:

"Accessors ... should match the name of the variable they are getting and
setting."  So name this parent() instead of const_parent().  (It won't collide
with the non-const symbol name.)

[luken, 2014/06/04 18:12:03]

Cool, I like your construction better. Question - how does this fit with our
policy about overloads? I thought all overloading was verboten?

[Peter Kasting, 2014/06/04 18:21:40]

Nope, overloading is OK when it doesn't cause confusion.  See
http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml?showone=Functi...
.  In particular, unless it is extraordinarily important to the reader to know
whether a const or non-const version of a method is being called, overloads that
only differ by constness are basically always OK.

Operator overloading is much more restricted.

+    void set_parent(NodeBase* parent) { parent_ = parent; }
+    const Rect& rect() const { return rect_; }
+    void set_rect(const Rect& rect) { rect_ = rect; }
+
+   protected:
+    friend class RTreeTest;
+    friend class RTreeNodeTest;

[Peter Kasting, 2014/06/03 23:52:18]

From
http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml?showone=Declar...
:

"Friend declarations should always be in the private section"

[luken, 2014/06/04 18:12:03]

Done.

+
+    NodeBase(const Rect& rect, NodeBase* parent);
+
+    // Bounds recomputation without calling parents to do the same.
+    virtual void RecomputeLocalBounds();
+
+   private:
+    // This Node's bounding rectangle.
+    Rect rect_;
+
+    // A weak pointer to our parent Node in the RTree. The root node will have a
+    // NULL value for |parent_|.
+    NodeBase* parent_;
+
+    DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(NodeBase);
+  };
+
+  class GFX_EXPORT RecordBase : public NodeBase {
+   public:
+    explicit RecordBase(const Rect& rect);
+    virtual ~RecordBase();
+
+    virtual void AppendIntersectingRecords(
+        const Rect& query_rect, Records* records_out) const OVERRIDE;
+    virtual void AppendAllRecords(Records* records_out) const OVERRIDE;
+    virtual scoped_ptr<NodeBase> RemoveAndReturnLastChild() OVERRIDE;
+    virtual const int Level() const OVERRIDE;
+
+   private:
+    friend class RTreeTest;
+    friend class RTreeNodeTest;
+
+    DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(RecordBase);
+  };
+
+  class GFX_EXPORT Node : public NodeBase {
+   public:
+    // Constructs an empty Node with |level_| of 0.
+    Node();
+    virtual ~Node();
+
+    virtual void AppendIntersectingRecords(
+        const Rect& query_rect, Records* records_out) const OVERRIDE;
+    virtual scoped_ptr<NodeBase> RemoveAndReturnLastChild() OVERRIDE;
+    virtual const int Level() const OVERRIDE;
+    virtual void AppendAllRecords(Records* matches_out) const OVERRIDE;
+
+    // Constructs a new Node that is the parent of this Node and already has
+    // this Node as its sole child. Valid to call only on root Nodes, meaning
+    // Nodes with |parent_| NULL. Note that ownership of this Node is
+    // transferred to the parent returned by this function.
+    scoped_ptr<Node> ConstructParent();
+
+    // Removes |number_to_remove| children from this Node, and appends them to
+    // the supplied list. Does not repair bounds upon completion. Nodes are
+    // selected in the manner suggested in the Beckmann et al. paper, which
+    // suggests that the children should be sorted by the distance from the
+    // center of their bounding rectangle to their parent's bounding rectangle,
+    // and then the n closest children should be removed for re-insertion. This
+    // removal occurs at most once on each level of the tree when overflowing
+    // nodes that have exceeded the maximum number of children during an Insert.
+    void RemoveNodesForReinsert(size_t number_to_remove, Nodes* nodes);
+
+    // Given a pointer to a child node within this Node, removes it from our
+    // list. If that child had any children, appends them to the supplied orphan
+    // list. Returns the |child_node| in a scoped_ptr as the node is

[Peter Kasting, 2014/06/03 23:52:18]

Nit: This sentence can just be "Returns the removed child."  The bit about
ownership is clear from the signature.

[luken, 2014/06/04 18:12:03]

Done.

+    // relinquishing ownership of it. Does not recompute bounds, as the caller
+    // might subsequently remove this node as well, meaning the recomputation
+    // would be wasted work.
+    scoped_ptr<NodeBase> RemoveChild(NodeBase* child_node, Nodes* orphans);
+
+    // Returns the best parent for insertion of the provided |node| as a child.
+    Node* ChooseSubtree(NodeBase* node);
+
+    // Adds |node| as a child of this Node, and recomputes the bounds of this
+    // node after the addition of the child. Returns the new count of children
+    // stored in this Node. This node becomes the owner of |node|.
+    size_t AddChild(scoped_ptr<NodeBase> node);
+
+    // Returns a sibling to this Node with at least min_children and no greater
+    // than max_children of this Node's children assigned to it, and having the
+    // same parent. Bounds will be valid on both Nodes after this call.
+    scoped_ptr<NodeBase> Split(size_t min_children, size_t max_children);
+
+    const size_t count() const { return children_.size(); }
+    const NodeBase* const_child(size_t i) const { return children_[i]; }

[Peter Kasting, 2014/06/03 23:52:18]

Nit: See comment above

[luken, 2014/06/04 18:12:03]

Done.

+    NodeBase* child(size_t i) { return children_[i]; }
+
+   private:
+    typedef std::vector<Rect> Rects;
+
+    explicit Node(int level);
+
+    // Given two arrays of bounds rectangles as computed by BuildLowBounds()
+    // and BuildHighBounds(), returns the index of the element in those arrays
+    // along which a split of the arrays would result in a minimum amount of
+    // overlap (area of intersection) in the two groups.
+    static size_t ChooseSplitIndex(size_t start_index,
+                                   size_t end_index,
+                                   const Rects& low_bounds,
+                                   const Rects& high_bounds);
+
+    // R*-Tree attempts to keep groups of rectangles that are roughly square
+    // in shape. It does this by comparing the "margins" of different bounding
+    // boxes, where margin is defined as the sum of the length of all four sides
+    // of a rectangle. For two rectangles of equal area, the one with the
+    // smallest margin will be the rectangle that has width and height closest
+    // to equality, or is the most square. When splitting we decide to split

[Peter Kasting, 2014/06/03 23:52:18]

Nit: I would still substitute "i.e." for "or" since you're restating your
previous statement as opposed to providing an alternative.  Or just drop this
clause.

I would probably also so "width and height differ the least" since that seems
clearer to me than "closest to equality", but up to you, this is trivial
nitpicking level :)

[luken, 2014/06/04 18:12:03]

Done.

+    // along an axis chosen from the rectangles either sorted vertically or
+    // horizontally by finding the axis that would result in the smallest sum of
+    // margins between the two bounding boxes of the resulting split. Returns
+    // the smallest sum computed given the sorted bounding boxes and a range to
+    // look within.
+    static int SmallestMarginSum(size_t start_index,
+                                 size_t end_index,
+                                 const Rects& low_bounds,
+                                 const Rects& high_bounds);
+
+    // Sorts nodes primarily by increasing y coordinates, and secondarily by
+    // increasing height.
+    static bool CompareVertical(const NodeBase* a, const NodeBase* b);
+
+    // Sorts nodes primarily by increasing x coordinates, and secondarily by
+    // increasing width.
+    static bool CompareHorizontal(const NodeBase* a, const NodeBase* b);
+
+    // Sorts nodes by the distance of the center of their rectangles to the
+    // center of their parent's rectangles.
+    static bool CompareCenterDistanceFromParent(
+        const NodeBase* a, const NodeBase* b);
+
+    // Given two vectors of Nodes sorted by vertical or horizontal bounds,
+    // populates two vectors of Rectangles in which the ith element is the union
+    // of all bounding rectangles [0,i] in the associated sorted array of Nodes.
+    static void BuildLowBounds(const std::vector<NodeBase*>& vertical_sort,
+                               const std::vector<NodeBase*>& horizontal_sort,
+                               Rects* vertical_bounds,
+                               Rects* horizontal_bounds);
+
+    // Given two vectors of Nodes sorted by vertical or horizontal bounds,
+    // populates two vectors of Rectangles in which the ith element is the
+    // union of all bounding rectangles [i, count()) in the associated sorted
+    // array of Nodes.
+    static void BuildHighBounds(const std::vector<NodeBase*>& vertical_sort,
+                                const std::vector<NodeBase*>& horizontal_sort,
+                                Rects* vertical_bounds,
+                                Rects* horizontal_bounds);
+
+    virtual void RecomputeLocalBounds() OVERRIDE;
+
+    // Returns the increase in overlap value, as defined in Beckmann et al. as
+    // the sum of the areas of the intersection of all child rectangles
+    // (excepting the candidate child) with the argument rectangle. Here the
+    // |candidate_node| is one of our |children_|, and |expanded_rect| is the
+    // already-computed union of the candidate's rect and |rect|.
+    int OverlapIncreaseToAdd(const Rect& rect,
+                             const NodeBase* candidate_node,
+                             const Rect& expanded_rect) const;
+
+    // Returns a new node containing children [split_index, count()) within
+    // |sorted_children|.  Children before |split_index| remain with |this|.
+    scoped_ptr<NodeBase> DivideChildren(
+        const Rects& low_bounds,
+        const Rects& high_bounds,
+        const std::vector<NodeBase*>& sorted_children,
+        size_t split_index);
+
+    // Returns a pointer to the child node that will result in the least overlap
+    // increase with the addition of node_rect, or NULL if there's a tie found.
+    // Requires a precomputed vector of expanded rectangles where the ith
+    // rectangle in the vector is the union of |children_|[i] and node_rect.
+    // Overlap is defined in Beckmann et al. as the sum of the areas of
+    // intersection of all child rectangles with the |node_rect| argument
+    // rectangle.  This heuristic attempts to choose the node for which adding
+    // the new rectangle to their bounding box will result in the least overlap
+    // with the other rectangles, thus trying to preserve the usefulness of the
+    // bounding rectangle by keeping it from covering too much redundant area.
+    Node* LeastOverlapIncrease(const Rect& node_rect,
+                               const Rects& expanded_rects);
+
+    // Returns a pointer to the child node that will result in the least area
+    // enlargement if the argument node rectangle were to be added to that
+    // node's bounding box. Requires a precomputed vector of expanded rectangles
+    // where the ith rectangle in the vector is the union of children_[i] and
+    // |node_rect|.
+    Node* LeastAreaEnlargement(const Rect& node_rect,
+                               const Rects& expanded_rects);
+
+    const int level_;
+
+    Nodes children_;
+
+    friend class RTreeTest;
+    friend class RTreeNodeTest;
+
+    DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(Node);
+  };
+
+  // Inserts |node| into the tree. The |highest_reinsert_level| supports
+  // re-insertion as described by Beckmann et al. As Node overflows progagate
+  // up the tree the algorithm performs a reinsertion of the overflow Nodes
+  // (instead of a split) at most once per level of the tree. A starting value
+  // of -1 for |highest_reinsert_level| means that reinserts are permitted for
+  // every level of the tree. This should always be set to -1 except by
+  // recursive calls from within InsertNode().
+  void InsertNode(scoped_ptr<NodeBase> node, int* highest_reinsert_level);
+
+  // Removes |node| from the tree without deleting it.
+  scoped_ptr<NodeBase> RemoveNode(NodeBase* node);
+
+  // Deletes the |root_| Node and replaces it with its only descendant child.
+  void PruneRoot();
+
+  // Deletes the current |root_| and replaces it with an empty Node.

[Peter Kasting, 2014/06/03 23:52:18]

This has the side effect of deleting the entire existing tree, right?  Perhaps
the name/comment should reflect that more (they sound as if they act narrowly on
just the root node).

[luken, 2014/06/04 18:12:03]

Done.

+  void ResetRoot();
+
+  const Node* root() const { return root_.get(); }
+
+ private:
+  friend class RTreeTest;
+  friend class RTreeNodeTest;
+
+  // A pointer to the root node in the RTree.
+  scoped_ptr<Node> root_;
+
+  // The parameters used to define the shape of the RTree.
+  const size_t min_children_;
+  const size_t max_children_;
+
+  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(RTreeBase);
+};
+
+}  // namespace gfx
+
+#endif  // UI_GFX_GEOMETRY_R_TREE_BASE_H_