Applicable scenarios for "supporting parameters for the value Range annotated method"

[kentbill]

Hello, teams.

I noticed that there is a new feature in version 1.29.0 - "supporting parameters for the value Range annotated method". I'd like to know in what scenarios this feature can be used? Is there any related documentation about it?

Does it mean that different valure range ​​can be return dynamically based on the parameters during solving?

Thanks!

[triceo]

There is documentation: https://docs.timefold.ai/timefold-solver/latest/using-timefold-solver/modeling-planning-problems#valueRangeProviderOnPlanningEntity

The difference with this feature is that you don't need to store these value ranges anywhere, and you don't need to store the solution to compute them. This helps with cloning performance, because the cloner no longer needs to worry about these possibly very large collections.

Nothing changes in terms of how you can use value ranges. They continue to be a one-time thing; they must not depend on any variable, and therefore must never change.