v8.2.0

YANLib 8.2.0 - Enhanced Collection Operations & Type Conversion

New Features

• YANEnumerable Expansion

  • Added YANEnumerable.Generic for converting collections of objects to strongly-typed collections
  • Introduced YANEnumerable.Generic.Immutable for immutable collection support
  • Comprehensive support for arrays, lists, hash sets, dictionaries, and lookups

• YANRandom Enhancements

  • Added YANRandom.Generic for generating random values from object collections
  • Introduced YANRandom.Generic.Collection for generating random collections from object collections
  • New methods for selecting random elements from existing collections
  • Support for both generic and non-generic collection inputs

• YANUnmanaged Collection Parsing

  • Added dictionary parsing with Parses<TKey, TValue> for IDictionary<object, object?>
  • Introduced lookup parsing with Parses<TKey, TElement> for ILookup<object?, object?>
  • Enhanced type conversion for complex collection structures

Performance

• Optimized collection conversion with specialized implementations for different collection types
• Improved random value generation with efficient selection algorithms
• Enhanced parsing performance for dictionaries and lookups
• Parallel processing for large collections to maximize throughput
• Reduced memory allocations through careful implementation

Improvements

• Fixed internal AsyncEnumerableEmpty<T> method in YANTask.Collection
• Extended XML documentation for all new methods
• Consistent behavior across all collection operations
• Improved type safety with generic constraints
• Graceful handling of null collections and edge cases

See full documentation at: https://github.com/Tynab/YANLib/wiki