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package org.apache.commons.math.genetics;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.commons.math.MathRuntimeException;

/**
 * Mutation operator for {@link RandomKey}s. Changes a randomly chosen element
 * of the array representation to a random value uniformly distributed in [0,1].
 * 
 * @since 2.0
 * @version $Revision:$ $Date:$
 */
public class RandomKeyMutation implements MutationPolicy {

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     * 
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if <code>original</code> is not a 
     * {@link RandomKey} instance
     */
    public Chromosome mutate(Chromosome original) {
        if (!(original instanceof RandomKey<?>)) {
            throw MathRuntimeException.createIllegalArgumentException(
                    "RandomKeyMutation works only with RandomKeys, got " +
                    original.getClass().getSimpleName());
        }
        
        RandomKey<?> originalRk = (RandomKey<?>) original;
        List<Double> repr = originalRk.getRepresentation();
        int rInd = GeneticAlgorithm.getRandomGenerator().nextInt(repr.size());
        
        List<Double> newRepr = new ArrayList<Double> (repr);
        newRepr.set(rInd, GeneticAlgorithm.getRandomGenerator().nextDouble());
        
        return originalRk.newFixedLengthChromosome(newRepr);
    }

}
