From cc683148826f0e2ae9af99a1e9483ea999b2d2a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Phil Steitz <psteitz@apache.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 07:19:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added load(URL). Addressing PR #25972, reported by Bill
 Barker.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/commons/proper/math/trunk@141049 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 .../math/random/EmpiricalDistribution.java       | 16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/commons/math/random/EmpiricalDistribution.java b/src/java/org/apache/commons/math/random/EmpiricalDistribution.java
index 6d569babc..9d8382598 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/commons/math/random/EmpiricalDistribution.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/commons/math/random/EmpiricalDistribution.java
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ package org.apache.commons.math.random;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.File;
+import java.net.URL;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 
 import org.apache.commons.math.stat.DescriptiveStatistics;
@@ -80,24 +81,31 @@ import org.apache.commons.math.stat.DescriptiveStatistics;
  * build grouped frequnecy histograms representing the input data or to
  * generate random values "like" those in the input file -- i.e., the values
  * generated will follow the distribution of the values in the file.
- * @version $Revision: 1.10 $ $Date: 2003/11/15 16:01:37 $
+ * @version $Revision: 1.11 $ $Date: 2004/01/11 07:19:52 $
  */
 public interface EmpiricalDistribution {
     
     /**
-     * Computes the empirical distribution from the input file
+     * Computes the empirical distribution from the input file.
      * @param filePath fully qualified name of a file in the local file system
      * @throws IOException if an IO error occurs
      */
     void load(String filePath) throws IOException; 
     
     /**
-     * Computes the empirical distribution from the input file
-     * @param file url of the input file
+     * Computes the empirical distribution from the input file.
+     * @param file the input file
      * @throws IOException if an IO error occurs
      */
     void load(File file) throws IOException;
     
+    /**
+     * Computes the empirical distribution using data read from a URL.
+     * @param file url of the input file
+     * @throws IOException if an IO error occurs
+     */
+    void load(URL url) throws IOException;
+    
     /** 
      * Generates a random value from this distribution.
      * <strong>Preconditions:</strong><ul>