[jira] [Resolved] (MATH-439) Refactoring of solvers (package "analysis.solvers")

["Gilles (Resolved) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Gilles resolved MATH-439.
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    Resolution: Fixed

No comment for a long time; resolved assuming that the current state is fine.

                
> Refactoring of solvers (package "analysis.solvers")
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>
>                 Key: MATH-439
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-439
>             Project: Commons Math
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Gilles
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 3.0
>
>         Attachments: AbstractUnivariateRealSolver.java, NLCG.testCircleFitting.txt
>
>
> The classes in package "analysis.solvers" could be refactored similarly to what was done for package {{optimization}}.
> * Replace {{MaxIterationsExceededException}} with {{TooManyEvaluationsException}}:
> Apart from the class {{MaxIterationsExceededException}} being deprecated, this approach makes it difficult to compare different algorithms: While the concept of iteration is algorithm-dependent, the user is probably mostly interested in the number of function evaluations. 
> * Implement the method {{solve}} in the base class ({{UnivariateRealSolverImpl}}) and define an abstract method {{doSolve}} to be implemented in derived classes. This method would then use a new {{computeObjectiveFunction}} method that will take care of the counting of the function evaluations.
> * Remove "protected" fields (the root is unnecessary since it is returned by {{solve}}). Arguingly the function value is also not very useful (as we know what it should be), except for debugging purposes (in which case, it might not be a problem to call the function's {{value}} method once more).
> * Remove the tolerance setter (accuracy) and make the corresponding fields "final".

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