NAME

Graph::Undirected::Components::External - Computes components of an undirected graph.

SYNOPSIS

use Data::Dump qw(dump);
use Log::Log4perl qw(:easy);
use Graph::Undirected::Components::External;
Log::Log4perl->easy_init ($WARN);
my $componenter = Graph::Undirected::Components::External->new(outputFile => 'vertexCompId.txt', purgeSizeBytes => 5000);
my $vertices = 10000;
for (my $i = 0; $i < $vertices; $i++)
{
  $componenter->add_edge (int rand $vertices, int rand $vertices);
}
dump $componenter->finish ();

DESCRIPTION

Graph::Undirected::Components::External computes the components of an undirected graph limited only by the amount of free disk space. All errors, warnings, and informational messages are logged using Log::Log4perl.

CONSTRUCTOR

new

The method new creates an instance of Graph::Undirected::Components::External with the following parameters.

workingDirectory

workingDirectory => File::Temp::tempdir()

workingDirectory is an optional parameter specifying the path to a directory that all temporary files are written to; the default is set using File::Temp::tempdir().

purgeSizeBytes

purgeSizeBytes => 1000000

purgeSizeBytes is an optional parameter specifying the aggregate byte size that all the vertices added to the internal instance of Graph::Undirected::Components must exceed before its content is purged to disk. The optimal value depends on the total internal memory available.

purgeSizeVertices

purgeSizeVertices => undef

purgeSizeVertices is an optional parameter specifying the total vertices added to the internal instance of Graph::Undirected::Components that must be exceed before its content is purged to disk. If purgeSizeBytes and purgeSizeVertices are both defined, then a purge occurs when either threshold is exceeded.

retainPercentage

retainPercentage => 0.10

retainPercentage is an optional parameter specifying the percentage of the most recently used vertices to be retained in the internal instance of Graph::Undirected::Components when it is purged. If the edges of the graph are not added in a random order, caching some of the vertices can speedup the computation of the components.

outputFile

outputFile => ...

outputFile is the path to the file that the (vertex,component-id) pairs are written to separated by the delimiter; the directory of the file should exist. An exception is thrown if outputFile is undefined or the file cannot be written to.

delimiter

delimiter => ','

delimiter is the delimiter used to separate the vertices of an edge when they are written to temporary files. All vertices should be encoded so that they do not contain the delimiter, that is, it should be true that index($vertex,$delimiter)==-1 for all vertices.

METHODS

add_edge (vertexA, vertexB)

The method add_edge updates the components of the graph using the edge (vertexA, vertexB).

vertexA, vertexB

The vertices of the edge (vertexA, vertexB) are Perl strings. If only vertexA is defined, then the edge (vertexA, vertexA) is added to the graph. The method always returns undef.

add_file

The method add_file adds all the edges in a file to the graph.

fileOfEdges => ...

fileOfEdges specifies the path to the file containing the edges to add. An exception is thrown if there are problems openning or reading the file.

delimiter

The edges are read from fileOfEdges using Text::CSV; delimiter must be to the delimiter used to separate the vertices of an edge in the file. The default is the value set with the "new" constructor.

finish

The method finish completes the computation of the connected components and writes the pairs (vertex,component-id) to the "outputFile". For each component component-id is the lexographical minimum of all the vertices in the component.

No edges can be added to the graph after finish is called.

INSTALLATION

Use CPAN to install the module and all its prerequisites:

perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan[1]> install Graph::Undirected::Components

BUGS

Please email bugs reports or feature requests to bug-graph-undirected-components@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Graph-Undirected-Components. The author will be notified and you can be automatically notified of progress on the bug fix or feature request.

AUTHOR

Jeff Kubina<jeff.kubina@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2009 Jeff Kubina. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

KEYWORDS

connected components, network, undirected graph

SEE ALSO

Graph, Graph::Undirected::Components, Log::Log4perl, Sort::External

connected component, graph, network,

cpanm Graph::Undirected::Components

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Graph::Undirected::Components