Add a container-based version of `std::sample()`

PiperOrigin-RevId: 592864147
Change-Id: I83179b0225aa446ae0b57b46b604af14f1fa14df

2 files changed, 51 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/absl/algorithm/container.h b/absl/algorithm/container.h
index 934dd179..c7bafae1 100644
--- a/absl/algorithm/container.h
+++ b/absl/algorithm/container.h
@@ -774,6 +774,36 @@ void c_shuffle(RandomAccessContainer& c, UniformRandomBitGenerator&& gen) {
                std::forward<UniformRandomBitGenerator>(gen));
 }
 
+// c_sample()
+//
+// Container-based version of the <algorithm> `std::sample()` function to
+// randomly sample elements from the container without replacement using a
+// `gen()` uniform random number generator and write them to an iterator range.
+template <typename C, typename OutputIterator, typename Distance,
+          typename UniformRandomBitGenerator>
+OutputIterator c_sample(const C& c, OutputIterator result, Distance n,
+                        UniformRandomBitGenerator&& gen) {
+#if defined(__cpp_lib_sample) && __cpp_lib_sample >= 201603L
+  return std::sample(container_algorithm_internal::c_begin(c),
+                     container_algorithm_internal::c_end(c), result, n,
+                     std::forward<UniformRandomBitGenerator>(gen));
+#else
+  // Fall back to a stable selection-sampling implementation.
+  auto first = container_algorithm_internal::c_begin(c);
+  Distance unsampled_elements = c_distance(c);
+  n = (std::min)(n, unsampled_elements);
+  for (; n != 0; ++first) {
+    Distance r =
+        std::uniform_int_distribution<Distance>(0, --unsampled_elements)(gen);
+    if (r < n) {
+      *result++ = *first;
+      --n;
+    }
+  }
+  return result;
+#endif
+}
+
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // <algorithm> Partition functions
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/absl/algorithm/container_test.cc b/absl/algorithm/container_test.cc
index 0fbc7773..c01f5fc0 100644
--- a/absl/algorithm/container_test.cc
+++ b/absl/algorithm/container_test.cc
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 
 #include "absl/algorithm/container.h"
 
+#include <algorithm>
 #include <functional>
 #include <initializer_list>
 #include <iterator>
@@ -40,8 +41,10 @@ using ::testing::Each;
 using ::testing::ElementsAre;
 using ::testing::Gt;
 using ::testing::IsNull;
+using ::testing::IsSubsetOf;
 using ::testing::Lt;
 using ::testing::Pointee;
+using ::testing::SizeIs;
 using ::testing::Truly;
 using ::testing::UnorderedElementsAre;
 
@@ -963,12 +966,29 @@ TEST(MutatingTest, RotateCopy) {
   EXPECT_THAT(actual, ElementsAre(3, 4, 1, 2, 5));
 }
 
+template <typename T>
+T RandomlySeededPrng() {
+  std::random_device rdev;
+  std::seed_seq::result_type data[T::state_size];
+  std::generate_n(data, T::state_size, std::ref(rdev));
+  std::seed_seq prng_seed(data, data + T::state_size);
+  return T(prng_seed);
+}
+
 TEST(MutatingTest, Shuffle) {
   std::vector<int> actual = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
-  absl::c_shuffle(actual, std::random_device());
+  absl::c_shuffle(actual, RandomlySeededPrng<std::mt19937_64>());
   EXPECT_THAT(actual, UnorderedElementsAre(1, 2, 3, 4, 5));
 }
 
+TEST(MutatingTest, Sample) {
+  std::vector<int> actual;
+  absl::c_sample(std::vector<int>{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}, std::back_inserter(actual), 3,
+                 RandomlySeededPrng<std::mt19937_64>());
+  EXPECT_THAT(actual, IsSubsetOf({1, 2, 3, 4, 5}));
+  EXPECT_THAT(actual, SizeIs(3));
+}
+
 TEST(MutatingTest, PartialSort) {
   std::vector<int> sequence{5, 3, 42, 0};
   absl::c_partial_sort(sequence, sequence.begin() + 2);