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Revision as of 14:00, 16 January 2017

This XQuery Module contains functions for computing random values. All functions except for random:seeded-double and random:seeded-integer are non-deterministic, i. e., they return different values for each call.

Conventions

All functions in this module are assigned to the http://basex.org/modules/random namespace, which is statically bound to the random prefix.
All errors are assigned to the http://basex.org/errors namespace, which is statically bound to the bxerr prefix.

Functions

random:double

Signatures random:double() as xs:double
Summary Returns a double value between 0.0 (inclusive) and 1.0 (exclusive).

random:integer

Signatures random:integer() as xs:integer
random:integer($max as xs:integer) as xs:integer
Summary Returns an integer value, either in the whole integer range or between 0 (inclusive) and the given maximum (exclusive)
Errors BXRA0001: the maximum value is out of bounds.

random:seeded-double

Signatures random:seeded-double($seed as xs:integer, $num as xs:integer) as xs:double*
Summary Returns a sequence with $num double values between 0.0 (inclusive) and 1.0 (exclusive). The random values are created using the initial seed given in $seed.

random:seeded-integer

Signatures random:seeded-integer($seed as xs:integer, $num as xs:integer) as xs:integer*
random:seeded-integer($seed as xs:integer, $num as xs:integer, $max as xs:integer) as xs:integer*
Summary Returns a sequence with $num integer values, either in the whole integer range or between 0 (inclusive) and the given maximum (exclusive). The random values are created using the initial seed given in $seed.
Errors BXRA0001: the maximum value is out of bounds.
BXRA0002: the number of values to be returned is negative.

random:gaussian

Signatures random:gaussian($num as xs:integer) as xs:double*
Summary Returns a sequence with $num double values. The random values are Gaussian (i.e. normally) distributed with the mean 0.0. and the derivation 1.0.

random:seeded-permutation

Signatures random:seeded-permutation($seed as xs:integer, $items as item()*) as item()*
Summary Returns a random permutation of the specified $items. The random order is created using the initial seed given in $seed.

random:uuid

Signatures random:uuid() as xs:string
Summary Creates a random universally unique identifier (UUID), represented as 128-bit value.
Examples
  • random:uuid() eq random:uuid() will (most probably) return the boolean value false.

Errors

Code Description
BXRA0001 The specified maximum value is out of bounds.
BXRA0002 The specified number of values to be returned is negative.

Changelog

Version 8.5
Version 8.0

The module was introduced with Version 7.5. It includes some functionality which was previously located in the Math Module.