all exectuion work

The previous regex was overly ambitious (and needlessly complex as a
result). The new regex is simpler, and doesn't impose bounds on month
and day ints, aside from requiring 1-2 digits.

Bugs (fixed):
  * The DataStreamExpressionInterpretter fails to parse certain date
    constants, such as "8/30/2024"

.devcontainer/Dockerfile

@@ -87,6 +87,9 @@ RUN dpkg -i /emumba/emumba-deribit-connector-3.3.1-Linux.LICENSE_DISABLED.deb \
 # Pcap
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libpcap0.8-dev
 
+# Databento (deps)
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get -y install libzstd-dev
+
 # Set up default executables (update-alternatives)
 RUN \
    update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/clang clang /usr/bin/clang-$clang_major 100; \

.devcontainer/devcontainer.json

@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@
     "-p",
     "8002:8002",
     "-p",
-    "8003:8003"
+    "8003:8003",
+    "-p",
+    "12345:12345"
   ],
   "mounts": [
     "source=${localEnv:HOME}/.bts/devcontainer-mounts/${devcontainerId},target=/home/bts,type=bind"
@@ -45,4 +47,4 @@
       ]
     }
   }
-}
+}

.gitattributes

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+*.cmd text=auto eol=crlf
+*.cs text=auto eol=crlf
+*.sh text=auto eol=lf

.gitignore

@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ cmake-build-debug/
 .idea/
 .dir-locals.el
 *.pyc
-**.vscode
+**.vscode/*
+!.vscode/launch.json
+!.vscode/tasks.json
 .vs
 obj/
 *.csproj.user

.vscode/launch.json

@@ -0,0 +1,158 @@
+{
+  "version": "0.2.0",
+  "configurations": [
+    {
+      "name": ".NET Core Attach",
+      "type": "coreclr",
+      "request": "attach"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "DataStreamPublisher",
+      "type": "coreclr",
+      "request": "launch",
+      "preLaunchTask": "Build DataStream (Debug)",
+      "program": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "program": "DataStreamPublisher",
+      },
+      "windows": {
+        "program": "DataStreamPublisher.exe",
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "--config",
+        "${workspaceFolder}/src/DataStreamSuite/DataStreamPublisher/Configurations/${input:dataStreamPublisherConfig}.json"
+      ],
+      "cwd": "build/Debug/bin/net7.0",
+      "stopAtEntry": false,
+      "console": "integratedTerminal"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "(gdb) Launch",
+      "type": "cppdbg",
+      "request": "launch",
+      "program": "/home/bts/spark/build/sparkd-debug-clang/server/sparkd",
+      "args": ["run"],
+      "stopAtEntry": false,
+      "cwd": "/home/bts/spark/build/sparkd-debug-clang/server",
+      "environment": [],
+      "externalConsole": false,
+      "MIMode": "gdb",
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "DataStreamQueryAnalyzer",
+      "type": "coreclr",
+      "request": "launch",
+      //"preLaunchTask": "Build DataStreamQueryAnalyzer (Debug)",
+      "program": "",
+      "windows": {
+        "program": "DataStreamQueryAnalyzer.exe",
+        "args": [
+          "--config",
+          "${workspaceFolder}/src/DataStreamSuite/DataStreamQueryAnalyzer/Configurations/DataStreamQueryAnalyzer.json"
+        ],
+        "cwd": "build/Debug/bin/net7.0-windows",
+        "env": {
+          "PYTHON_EXE": "${workspaceFolder}/.venv/Scripts/python.exe"
+        },
+      },
+      "stopAtEntry": false,
+      "console": "integratedTerminal",
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "PubSubServer",
+      "type": "coreclr",
+      "request": "launch",
+      "preLaunchTask": "Build DataStream (Debug)",
+      "program": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "program": "PubSubServer",
+      },
+      "windows": {
+        "program": "PubSubServer.exe",
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "--config",
+        "${workspaceFolder}/src/DataStreamSuite/PubSubServer/Configurations/${input:pubSubServerConfig}.json"
+      ],
+      "cwd": "build/Debug/bin/net7.0",
+      "stopAtEntry": false,
+      "console": "integratedTerminal"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "Spark",
+      "type": "coreclr",
+      "request": "launch",
+      "program": "",
+      "windows": {
+        "preLaunchTask": "Build Spark (Debug)",
+        "program": "Spark.exe",
+        "cwd": "build/Debug/bin/net7.0-windows",
+      },
+      "stopAtEntry": false,
+      "console": "integratedTerminal"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "Spark (Parameterized)",
+      "type": "coreclr",
+      "request": "launch",
+      "preLaunchTask": "Build Spark (Debug)",
+      "program": "",
+      "windows": {
+        "program": "Spark.exe",
+        "args": [
+          "--sparkd",
+          "${input:sparkConfigServer}"
+        ],
+        "cwd": "build/Debug/bin/net7.0-windows",
+      },
+      "stopAtEntry": false,
+      "console": "integratedTerminal"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "Sparkd",
+      "type": "coreclr",
+      "request": "launch",
+      "preLaunchTask": "Build Sparkd (Debug | Clang)",
+      "program": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "program": "sparkd",
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "run"
+      ],
+      "cwd": "build/sparkd-debug-clang/server",
+      "stopAtEntry": false,
+      "console": "integratedTerminal"
+    }
+  ],
+  "inputs": [
+    {
+      "id": "dataStreamPublisherConfig",
+      "type": "pickString",
+      "description": "Publisher Configuration",
+      "options": [
+        "MarketDataPublisher",
+        "SimpleEchoClient",
+        "SimpleTestDataPublisher",
+        "TestDataPublisher",
+      ],
+      "default": "MarketDataPublisher",
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "pubSubServerConfig",
+      "type": "pickString",
+      "description": "PubSub Configuration",
+      "options": [
+        "PubSubServer",
+        "SimpleEchoClient",
+      ],
+      "default": "PubSubServer",
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "sparkConfigServer",
+      "type": "promptString",
+      "description": "Config Server URL",
+      "default": "http://localhost:8000/config",
+    },
+  ]
+}

.vscode/tasks.json

@@ -0,0 +1,828 @@
+{
+  "version": "2.0.0",
+  "tasks": [
+    {
+      "label": "Build Api Server",
+      "group": "build",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "command": "tools/build_api_server.sh",
+      },
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "tools/build_api_server.cmd",
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "--configuration",
+        "${input:buildConfiguration}",
+      ],
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "terminal",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiCyan"
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Build Api Server (Debug)",
+      "group": "build",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "command": "tools/build_api_server.sh",
+      },
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "tools/build_api_server.cmd",
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "--configuration",
+        "Debug",
+      ],
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "terminal",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiCyan"
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Build Api Server (Release)",
+      "group": "build",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "tools/build_api_server.cmd",
+      },
+      "linux": {
+        "command": "tools/build_api_server.sh",
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "--configuration",
+        "Release",
+      ],
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "terminal",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiCyan"
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Build DataStream",
+      "group": "build",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "command": "tools/build_data_stream.sh",
+      },
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "tools/build_data_stream.cmd",
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "--configuration",
+        "${input:buildConfiguration}",
+      ],
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "terminal",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiCyan"
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Build DataStream (Debug)",
+      "group": "build",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "command": "tools/build_data_stream.sh",
+      },
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "tools/build_data_stream.cmd",
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "--configuration",
+        "Debug",
+      ],
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "terminal",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiCyan"
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Build DataStream (Release)",
+      "group": "build",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "command": "tools/build_data_stream.sh",
+      },
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "tools/build_data_stream.cmd",
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "--configuration",
+        "Release",
+      ],
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "terminal",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiCyan"
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Build Spark",
+      "group": "build",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "tools/build_spark.cmd",
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "--configuration",
+        "${input:buildConfiguration}",
+      ],
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "terminal",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiCyan"
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Build Spark (Debug)",
+      "group": "build",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "tools/build_spark.cmd",
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "--configuration",
+        "Debug",
+      ],
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "terminal",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiCyan"
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Build Spark (Release)",
+      "group": "build",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "tools/build_spark.cmd",
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "--configuration",
+        "Release",
+      ],
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "terminal",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiCyan"
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Build Sparkd",
+      "group": "build",
+      "type": "shell",
+      "command": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "command": "tools/build_sparkd.sh",
+        "args": [
+          "--preset",
+          "${input:sparkdCmakePreset}",
+        ],
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "terminal",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiCyan"
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Build Sparkd (Debug)",
+      "group": "build",
+      "type": "shell",
+      "command": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "command": "tools/build_sparkd.sh",
+        "args": [
+          "--build-type",
+          "Debug",
+          "--compiler",
+          "${input:sparkdCompiler}"
+        ],
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "terminal",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiCyan"
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Build Sparkd (Debug | Gcc)",
+      "group": "build",
+      "type": "shell",
+      "command": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "command": "tools/build_sparkd.sh",
+        "args": [
+          "--build-type",
+          "Debug",
+          "--compiler",
+          "gcc"
+        ],
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "terminal",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiCyan"
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Build Sparkd (Debug | Clang)",
+      "group": "build",
+      "type": "shell",
+      "command": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "command": "tools/build_sparkd.sh",
+        "args": [
+          "--build-type",
+          "Debug",
+          "--compiler",
+          "clang"
+        ],
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "terminal",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiCyan"
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Build Sparkd (Release)",
+      "group": "build",
+      "type": "shell",
+      "command": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "command": "tools/build_sparkd.sh",
+        "args": [
+          "--build-type",
+          "Release",
+          "--compiler",
+          "${input:sparkdCompiler}"
+        ],
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "terminal",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiCyan"
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Build Sparkd (Release | Gcc)",
+      "group": "build",
+      "type": "shell",
+      "command": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "command": "tools/build_sparkd.sh",
+        "args": [
+          "--build-type",
+          "Release",
+          "--compiler",
+          "gcc"
+        ],
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "terminal",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiCyan"
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Build Sparkd (Release | Clang)",
+      "group": "build",
+      "type": "shell",
+      "command": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "command": "tools/build_sparkd.sh",
+        "args": [
+          "--build-type",
+          "Release",
+          "--compiler",
+          "clang"
+        ],
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "terminal",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiCyan"
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Edit DataStream Config",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "command": "editor",
+        "args": [
+          "${env:HOME}/.local/share/DataStream/conf/spark.conf"
+        ],
+      },
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "vim",
+        "args": [
+          "${env:APPDATA}/bts/DataStream/conf/spark.conf"
+        ],
+      },
+      "presentation": {
+        "reveal": "always",
+        "focus": true,
+        "panel": "shared",
+        "showReuseMessage": false,
+        "close": true,
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "wrench"
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Edit Spark Config",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "vim",
+        "args": [
+          "${env:APPDATA}/bts/conf/spark.conf"
+        ],
+      },
+      "presentation": {
+        "reveal": "always",
+        "focus": true,
+        "panel": "dedicated",
+        "showReuseMessage": false,
+        "close": true,
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "wrench"
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Run DataStreamQueryAnalyzer",
+      "dependsOn": "Build DataStream",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "DataStreamQueryAnalyzer.exe",
+        "args": [
+          "--config",
+          "${workspaceFolder}/src/DataStreamSuite/DataStreamQueryAnalyzer/Configurations/DataStreamQueryAnalyzer.json",
+        ],
+        "options": {
+          "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/build/${input:buildConfiguration}/bin/net7.0-windows"
+        },
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "run",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiGreen",
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Run DataStreamQueryAnalyzer (Debug)",
+      "dependsOn": "Build DataStream (Debug)",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "DataStreamQueryAnalyzer.exe",
+        "args": [
+          "--config",
+          "${workspaceFolder}/src/DataStreamSuite/DataStreamQueryAnalyzer/Configurations/DataStreamQueryAnalyzer.json",
+        ],
+        "options": {
+          "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/build/Debug/bin/net7.0-windows"
+        },
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "run",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiGreen",
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Run DataStreamQueryAnalyzer (Release)",
+      "dependsOn": "Build DataStream (Release)",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "DataStreamQueryAnalyzer.exe",
+        "args": [
+          "--config",
+          "${workspaceFolder}/src/DataStreamSuite/DataStreamQueryAnalyzer/Configurations/DataStreamQueryAnalyzer.json",
+        ],
+        "options": {
+          "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/build/Release/bin/net7.0-windows"
+        },
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "run",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiGreen",
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Run DataStreamPublisher",
+      "dependsOn": "Build DataStream",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "command": "DataStreamPublisher",
+      },
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "DataStreamPublisher.exe",
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "--config",
+        "${workspaceFolder}/src/DataStreamSuite/DataStreamPublisher/Configurations/${input:dataStreamPublisherConfig}.json",
+      ],
+      "options": {
+        "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/build/${input:buildConfiguration}/bin/net7.0"
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "run",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiGreen",
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Run DataStreamPublisher (Debug)",
+      "dependsOn": "Build DataStream (Debug)",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "command": "DataStreamPublisher",
+      },
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "DataStreamPublisher.exe",
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "--config",
+        "${workspaceFolder}/src/DataStreamSuite/DataStreamPublisher/Configurations/${input:dataStreamPublisherConfig}.json",
+      ],
+      "options": {
+        "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/build/Debug/bin/net7.0"
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "run",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiGreen",
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Run DataStreamPublisher (Release)",
+      "dependsOn": "Build DataStream (Release)",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "command": "DataStreamPublisher",
+      },
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "DataStreamPublisher.exe",
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "--config",
+        "${workspaceFolder}/src/DataStreamSuite/DataStreamPublisher/Configurations/${input:dataStreamPublisherConfig}.json",
+      ],
+      "options": {
+        "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/build/Release/bin/net7.0"
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "run",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiGreen",
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Run PubSubServer",
+      "dependsOn": "Build DataStream",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "command": "PubSubServer",
+      },
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "PubSubServer.exe",
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "--config",
+        "${workspaceFolder}/src/DataStreamSuite/PubSubServer/Configurations/${input:pubSubServerConfig}.json",
+      ],
+      "options": {
+        "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/build/${input:buildConfiguration}/bin/net7.0"
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "run",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiGreen",
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Run PubSubServer (Debug)",
+      "dependsOn": "Build DataStream (Debug)",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "command": "PubSubServer",
+      },
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "PubSubServer.exe",
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "--config",
+        "${workspaceFolder}/src/DataStreamSuite/PubSubServer/Configurations/${input:pubSubServerConfig}.json",
+      ],
+      "options": {
+        "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/build/Debug/bin/net7.0"
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "run",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiGreen",
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Run PubSubServer (Debug | Skip Build)",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "command": "PubSubServer",
+      },
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "PubSubServer.exe",
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "--config",
+        "${workspaceFolder}/src/DataStreamSuite/PubSubServer/Configurations/${input:pubSubServerConfig}.json",
+      ],
+      "options": {
+        "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/build/Debug/bin/net7.0"
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "run",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiGreen",
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Run PubSubServer (Release)",
+      "dependsOn": "Build DataStream (Release)",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "command": "PubSubServer",
+      },
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "PubSubServer.exe",
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "--config",
+        "${workspaceFolder}/src/DataStreamSuite/PubSubServer/Configurations/${input:pubSubServerConfig}.json",
+      ],
+      "options": {
+        "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/build/Release/bin/net7.0"
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "run",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiGreen",
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Run PubSubServer (Release | Skip Build)",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "command": "PubSubServer",
+      },
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "PubSubServer.exe",
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "--config",
+        "${workspaceFolder}/src/DataStreamSuite/PubSubServer/Configurations/${input:pubSubServerConfig}.json",
+      ],
+      "options": {
+        "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/build/Release/bin/net7.0"
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "run",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiGreen",
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Run Spark",
+      "dependsOn": "Build Spark",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "Spark.exe",
+        "options": {
+          "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/build/${input:buildConfiguration}/bin/net7.0-windows"
+        },
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "run",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiGreen",
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Run Spark (Debug)",
+      "dependsOn": "Build Spark (Debug)",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "Spark.exe",
+        "options": {
+          "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/build/Debug/bin/net7.0-windows"
+        },
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "run",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiGreen",
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Run Spark (Release)",
+      "dependsOn": "Build Spark (Release)",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "Spark.exe",
+        "options": {
+          "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/build/Release/bin/net7.0-windows"
+        },
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "run",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiGreen",
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Run Spark Config Query",
+      "dependsOn": "Build Spark",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "command": "Spark.Console",
+      },
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "Spark.Console.exe",
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "config",
+        "--query",
+        "${input:sparkConfigQuery}",
+      ],
+      "options": {
+        "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/build/${input:buildConfiguration}/bin/net7.0"
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "run",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiGreen",
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Run Sparkd",
+      "dependsOn": "Build Sparkd",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "command": "sparkd",
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "run"
+      ],
+      "options": {
+        "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/build/${input:sparkdCmakePreset}/server"
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "run",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiGreen",
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "Run Sparkd Config Query",
+      "dependsOn": "Build Sparkd",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "command": "sparkd",
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "config",
+        "--query",
+        "${input:sparkdConfigQuery}",
+      ],
+      "options": {
+        "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/build/${input:sparkdCompiler}/${input:sparkdBuildType}/server"
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "run",
+        "color": "terminal.ansiGreen",
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "View DataStreamQueryAnalyzer Logs (Last Run)",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "tools/logging/show_last_run.cmd",
+        "args": [
+          "DataStream",
+          "DataStreamQueryAnalyzer.exe",
+          "'Starting DataStreamQueryAnalyzer'"
+        ]
+      },
+      "presentation": {
+        "reveal": "always",
+        "focus": true,
+        "panel": "shared",
+        "showReuseMessage": false,
+        "close": true,
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "wrench"
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      "label": "View PubSubServer Logs (Last Run)",
+      "type": "process",
+      "command": "",
+      "linux": {
+        "command": "tools/logging/show_last_run.sh",
+        "args": [
+          "${env:HOME}/.local/share/DataStream/data/logging.PubSubServer",
+          "Starting PubSubServer"
+        ]
+      },
+      "windows": {
+        "command": "tools/logging/show_last_run.cmd",
+        "args": [
+          "DataStream",
+          "PubSubServer.exe",
+          "Starting PubSubServer"
+        ]
+      },
+      "presentation": {
+        "reveal": "always",
+        "focus": true,
+        "panel": "shared",
+        "showReuseMessage": false,
+        "close": true,
+      },
+      "icon": {
+        "id": "wrench"
+      },
+    },
+  ],
+  "inputs": [
+    {
+      "id": "buildConfiguration",
+      "type": "pickString",
+      "description": "Configuration",
+      "options": [
+        "Debug",
+        "Release",
+      ],
+      "default": "Debug",
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "sparkdCmakePreset",
+      "type": "pickString",
+      "description": "Configuration",
+      "options": [
+        "sparkd-debug-clang",
+        "sparkd-debug-gcc",
+        "sparkd-release-clang",
+        "sparkd-release-gcc",
+      ],
+      "default": "sparkd-debug-clang",
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "sparkdCompiler",
+      "type": "pickString",
+      "description": "Configuration",
+      "options": [
+        "clang",
+        "gcc",
+      ],
+      "default": "sparkd-debug-clang",
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "dataStreamPublisherConfig",
+      "type": "pickString",
+      "description": "Publisher Configuration",
+      "options": [
+        "MarketDataPublisher",
+        "SimpleEchoClient",
+        "SimpleTestDataPublisher",
+        "TestDataPublisher",
+      ],
+      "default": "MarketDataPublisher",
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "pubSubServerConfig",
+      "type": "pickString",
+      "description": "PubSub Configuration",
+      "options": [
+        "PubSubServer",
+        "SimpleEchoClient",
+      ],
+      "default": "PubSubServer",
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "sparkConfigQuery",
+      "type": "promptString",
+      "description": "Config Type(s)"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "sparkdConfigQuery",
+      "type": "promptString",
+      "description": "Config Type(s)"
+    }
+  ]
+}

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -14,12 +14,17 @@ set(
   CACHE
   STRING
   "External dependencies root folder (should contain folders: lib, bin, include")
+
+# SHARED_MEMORY_PREFIX serves as a kind of namespace so multiple applications
+# can run simultaneously without fighting over the same shm files (e.g., sparkd,
+# api server, etc.).
+set(SHARED_MEMORY_PREFIX "bts" CACHE STRING "Prefix to use when creating shared memory files")
 set(SPARK_BIN "${EXTERNALS_ROOT}/bin")
 set(SPARK_INCLUDE "${EXTERNALS_ROOT}/include")
 set(SPARK_LIB "${EXTERNALS_ROOT}/lib/$<CONFIG>")
-set(BUILD_API_SERVER OFF CACHE BOOL "Build the api server")
 set(BUILD_DOCS OFF CACHE BOOL "Build documentation")
 set(BUILD_SDK OFF CACHE BOOL "Build the sdk")
+set(EXPORT_MD_CONSUMER OFF CACHE BOOL "Export (extern) C functions for MD consumer interop")
 if (WIN32)
   set(BUILD_SPARKD OFF CACHE BOOL "Build sparkd")
   set(BUILD_ADMIN_WEB_APP OFF CACHE BOOL "Build the Admin WebApp")
@@ -31,13 +36,13 @@ endif()
 include_directories(BEFORE SYSTEM ${SPARK_INCLUDE} ${EXTERNALS_ROOT}/include/zlib)
 link_directories(${SPARK_LIB})
 
-if(BUILD_API_SERVER)
-  add_compile_definitions(SPARK_ENABLE_API_SERVER)
+add_compile_definitions(SHARED_MEMORY_PREFIX="${SHARED_MEMORY_PREFIX}")
+add_compile_definitions(APP_DATA_DIR="${APP_DATA_DIR}")
+if(DEFINED APP_DATA_DIR_OVERRIDE)
+  add_compile_definitions(APP_DATA_DIR_OVERRIDE="${APP_DATA_DIR_OVERRIDE}")
 endif()
-
+add_compile_definitions(EXPORT_MD_CONSUMER="${EXPORT_MD_CONSUMER}")
 if(WIN32)
-  add_compile_definitions(SHARED_MEMORY_PREFIX="spark")
-  add_compile_definitions(APP_DATA_DIR="\$\{APPDATA\}/bts/")
   # subdirs
   add_subdirectory(src/lib)
 else()
@@ -47,13 +52,7 @@ else()
   set(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/install")
   set(SPARK_INSTALL_PREFIX "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/$<CONFIG>")
 
-  if(BUILD_API_SERVER)
-    add_compile_definitions(APP_DATA_DIR="\$\{HOME\}/spark_api/")
-    add_compile_definitions(SHARED_MEMORY_PREFIX="spark_api")
-  elseif(BUILD_SPARKD)
-    add_compile_definitions(SHARED_MEMORY_PREFIX="sparkd")
-    add_compile_definitions(APP_DATA_DIR="\$\{HOME\}/sparkdata/")
-
+  if(BUILD_SPARKD)
     # Note: All macros that begin w/ 'CCAPI' are ccapi's macros (defined and/or
     # read by their code). We override some below.
     add_compile_definitions(SPARK_ENABLE_CCAPI)
@@ -133,6 +132,8 @@ else()
       COMMAND ln ARGS -sf ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/src/server/sparkd/sparkd ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/server
       COMMAND ln ARGS -sf ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/data_files ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/server
       COMMAND ln ARGS -sf ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/src/lib/libspark.so ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/server
+      COMMAND ln ARGS -sf ${EXTERNALS_ROOT}/lib/${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE}/libonixs-fix-engine.so.4 ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/server
+      
       COMMAND
         ln ARGS -sf
         ${EXTERNALS_ROOT}/lib/Release/libOnixS.IceImpactMulticastPriceFeedHandlerCpp.so.3.16.0.0

CMakePresets.json

@@ -15,11 +15,13 @@
         "rhs": "Windows"
       },
       "generator": "Visual Studio 17 2022",
-      "binaryDir": "${sourceDir}/build",
+      "binaryDir": "${sourceDir}/build/${presetName}",
       "environment": {
         "SPARK_CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS": "/MP /WX /wd4250 /wd4251 /wd4244 /wd4267 /wd4355 /wd4275 /wd4345 /bigobj /EHsc /DCURL_STATICLIB /D_WINSOCK_DEPRECATED_NO_WARNINGS /D__TBB_NO_IMPLICIT_LINKAGE /DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB /std:c++20 /D_SCL_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS /D_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS /D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0600"
       },
       "cacheVariables": {
+        "APP_DATA_DIR": "${dollar}{APPDATA}/bts",
+        "APP_DATA_DIR_OVERRIDE": "${dollar}{SPARK_DATA_DIR}",
         "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS": "$env{SPARK_CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS}",
         "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG": "$env{SPARK_CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} /MTd",
         "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE": "$env{SPARK_CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} /MT",
@@ -30,7 +32,12 @@
         "EXTERNALS_ROOT": "${sourceDir}/externals/windows",
         "CONFIG_DEFAULTS_PATH": "config/profiles/default/*.conf",
         "DOTNET_BINARY_DIR": "${sourceDir}/build/$<CONFIG>/bin/net7.0",
-        "DOTNET_WINDOWS_BINARY_DIR": "${sourceDir}/build/$<CONFIG>/bin/net7.0-windows"
+        "DOTNET_WINDOWS_BINARY_DIR": "${sourceDir}/build/$<CONFIG>/bin/net7.0-windows",
+        "EXPORT_MD_CONSUMER": {
+          "type": "BOOL",
+          "value": "ON"
+        },
+        "SHARED_MEMORY_PREFIX": "spark"
       }
     },
 
@@ -46,6 +53,8 @@
       "binaryDir": "${sourceDir}/build/${presetName}",
       "cacheVariables": {
         "platform": "",
+        "APP_DATA_DIR": "${dollar}{HOME}/sparkdata",
+        "APP_DATA_DIR_OVERRIDE": "${dollar}{SPARKD_DATA_DIR}",
         "CMAKE_BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH": {
           "type": "BOOL",
           "value": "ON"
@@ -62,7 +71,8 @@
         "BUILD_ADMIN_WEB_APP": {
           "type": "BOOL",
           "value": "ON"
-        }
+        },
+        "SHARED_MEMORY_PREFIX": "sparkd"
       }
     },
 
@@ -95,98 +105,72 @@
     {
       "name": "sparkd-debug-clang",
       "inherits": "sparkd-debug",
-      "displayName": "Debug (clang)",
+      "displayName": "Sparkd (Debug | Clang)",
       "description": "Debug build compiled w/ clang",
-      "binaryDir": "${sourceDir}/build/clang/debug",
       "cacheVariables": {
         "CMAKE_C_COMPILER": "clang",
         "CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER": "clang++",
-        "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG": "-g -fPIC -Wall -pedantic -Wextra -Werror -Wno-missing-braces -Wno-ignored-qualifiers --std=c++20 -fdiagnostics-color -DDEBUG",
-        "CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX": "${sourceDir}/install/clang/debug/sparkd"
+        "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG": "-g -fPIC -Wall -pedantic -Wextra -Werror -Wno-missing-braces -Wno-ignored-qualifiers --std=c++20 -fdiagnostics-color -DDEBUG"
       }
     },
 
     {
       "name": "sparkd-debug-gcc",
       "inherits": "sparkd-debug",
-      "displayName": "Debug (gcc)",
+      "displayName": "Sparkd (Debug | Gcc)",
       "description": "Debug build compiled w/ gcc",
-      "binaryDir": "${sourceDir}/build/gcc/debug",
       "cacheVariables": {
-        "CMAKE_C_COMPILER": "gcc-12",
-        "CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER": "g++-12",
-        "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG": "-g -fPIC -Wall -pedantic -Wextra -Werror -Wno-missing-braces -Wno-ignored-qualifiers --std=c++20 -fdiagnostics-color -Wno-stringop-overread -DDEBUG",
-        "CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX": "${sourceDir}/install/gcc/debug/sparkd"
+        "CMAKE_C_COMPILER": "gcc",
+        "CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER": "g++",
+        "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG": "-g -fPIC -Wall -pedantic -Wextra -Werror -Wno-missing-braces -Wno-ignored-qualifiers --std=c++20 -fdiagnostics-color -Wno-stringop-overread -DDEBUG"
       }
     },
 
     {
       "name": "sparkd-release-clang",
       "inherits": "sparkd-release",
-      "displayName": "Release (clang)",
+      "displayName": "Sparkd (Release | Clang)",
       "description": "Release build compiled w/ clang",
-      "binaryDir": "${sourceDir}/build/clang/release",
       "cacheVariables": {
         "CMAKE_C_COMPILER": "clang",
         "CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER": "clang++",
-        "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE": "-fPIC -Wall -pedantic -Wextra -Werror -Wno-missing-braces -Wno-ignored-qualifiers --std=c++20 -fdiagnostics-color -fno-omit-frame-pointer -DNDEBUG -O3",
-        "CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX": "${sourceDir}/install/clang/release/sparkd"
+        "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE": "-fPIC -Wall -pedantic -Wextra -Werror -Wno-missing-braces -Wno-ignored-qualifiers --std=c++20 -fdiagnostics-color -fno-omit-frame-pointer -DNDEBUG -O3"
       }
     },
 
     {
       "name": "sparkd-release-gcc",
       "inherits": "sparkd-release",
-      "displayName": "Release (gcc)",
+      "displayName": "Sparkd (Release | Gcc)",
       "description": "Release build compiled w/ gcc",
-      "binaryDir": "${sourceDir}/build/gcc/release",
       "cacheVariables": {
         "CMAKE_C_COMPILER": "gcc",
         "CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER": "g++",
-        "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE": "-fPIC -Wall -pedantic -Wextra -Werror -Wno-missing-braces -Wno-ignored-qualifiers -Wno-stringop-overflow --std=c++20 -fdiagnostics-color -Wno-stringop-overread -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -fno-omit-frame-pointer -DNDEBUG -O3",
-        "CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX": "${sourceDir}/install/gcc/release/sparkd"
-      }
-    },
-
-    {
-      "name": "spark-api-server-base",
-      "hidden": true,
-      "binaryDir": "${sourceDir}/build/${presetName}",
-      "cacheVariables": {
-        "BUILD_API_SERVER": {
-          "type": "bool",
-          "value": "ON"
-        },
-        "CONFIG_DEFAULTS_PATH": "config/profiles/md_dev/*.conf;config/profiles/default/*.conf"
+        "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE": "-fPIC -Wall -pedantic -Wextra -Werror -Wno-missing-braces -Wno-ignored-qualifiers -Wno-stringop-overflow --std=c++20 -fdiagnostics-color -Wno-stringop-overread -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -fno-omit-frame-pointer -DNDEBUG -O3"
       }
     },
 
     {
       "name": "spark-api-server-windows",
       "inherits": "spark",
-      "displayName": "Spark Api Server",
+      "displayName": "Spark Api Server (Windows)",
       "cacheVariables": {
-        "BUILD_API_SERVER": {
-          "type": "bool",
-          "value": "ON"
-        }
+        "APP_DATA_DIR_OVERRIDE": "${dollar}{SPARK_API_SERVER_DATA_DIR}",
+        "SHARED_MEMORY_PREFIX": "spark_api_server"
       }
     },
 
     {
       "name": "spark-api-server-linux",
       "inherits": "sparkd",
-      "displayName": "Spark Api Server",
+      "displayName": "Spark Api Server (Linux)",
       "generator": "Ninja Multi-Config",
       "cacheVariables": {
+        "APP_DATA_DIR_OVERRIDE": "${dollar}{SPARK_API_SERVER_DATA_DIR}",
         "BUILD_ADMIN_WEB_APP": {
           "type": "BOOL",
           "value": "OFF"
         },
-        "BUILD_API_SERVER": {
-          "type": "bool",
-          "value": "ON"
-        },
         "BUILD_SPARKD": {
           "type": "BOOL",
           "value": "OFF"
@@ -197,7 +181,11 @@
         "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE": "-fPIC -Wall -pedantic -Wextra -Werror -Wno-missing-braces -Wno-ignored-qualifiers --std=c++20 -fdiagnostics-color -fno-omit-frame-pointer -DNDEBUG -O3",
         "CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX": "${sourceDir}/install/${presetName}",
         "CONFIG_DEFAULTS_PATH": "config/profiles/default/*.conf",
-        "DOTNET_BINARY_DIR": "${sourceDir}/build/$<CONFIG>/bin/net7.0"
+        "DOTNET_BINARY_DIR": "${sourceDir}/build/$<CONFIG>/bin/net7.0",
+        "EXPORT_MD_CONSUMER": {
+          "type": "BOOL",
+          "value": "ON"
+        }
       }
     },
 
@@ -220,13 +208,62 @@
     },
 
     {
-      "name": "data-stream-suite",
+      "name": "data-stream-suite-windows",
+      "condition": {
+        "type": "equals",
+        "lhs": "${hostSystemName}",
+        "rhs": "Windows"
+      },
       "inherits": "spark",
-      "displayName": "Data Stream Suite",
+      "displayName": "Data Stream Suite (Windows)",
       "description": "Data Stream utils ported over from Edge",
       "binaryDir": "${sourceDir}/build/${presetName}",
       "cacheVariables": {
-        "CONFIG_DEFAULTS_PATH": "config/profiles/default/*.conf;config/profiles/data_stream/*.conf"
+        "APP_DATA_DIR": "${dollar}{APPDATA}/bts/DataStream",
+        "APP_DATA_DIR_OVERRIDE": "${dollar}{DATA_STREAM_DATA_DIR}",
+        "CONFIG_DEFAULTS_PATH": "config/profiles/default/*.conf;config/profiles/data_stream/*.conf",
+        "SHARED_MEMORY_PREFIX": "data_stream"
+      }
+    },
+
+    {
+      "name": "data-stream-suite-linux",
+      "displayName": "Data Stream Suite (Linux)",
+      "description": "Data Stream utils ported over from Edge",
+      "condition": {
+        "type": "equals",
+        "lhs": "${hostSystemName}",
+        "rhs": "Linux"
+      },
+      "inherits": "sparkd",
+      "generator": "Ninja Multi-Config",
+      "cacheVariables": {
+        "APP_DATA_DIR": "${dollar}{HOME}/.local/share/DataStream",
+        "APP_DATA_DIR_OVERRIDE": "${dollar}{DATA_STREAM_DATA_DIR}",
+        "BUILD_ADMIN_WEB_APP": {
+          "type": "BOOL",
+          "value": "OFF"
+        },
+        "BUILD_SDK": {
+          "type": "BOOL",
+          "value": "OFF"
+        },
+        "BUILD_SPARKD": {
+          "type": "BOOL",
+          "value": "OFF"
+        },
+        "CMAKE_C_COMPILER": "clang",
+        "CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER": "clang++",
+        "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG": "-g -fPIC -Wall -pedantic -Wextra -Werror -Wno-missing-braces -Wno-ignored-qualifiers --std=c++20 -fdiagnostics-color -DDEBUG",
+        "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE": "-fPIC -Wall -pedantic -Wextra -Werror -Wno-missing-braces -Wno-ignored-qualifiers --std=c++20 -fdiagnostics-color -fno-omit-frame-pointer -DNDEBUG -O3",
+        "CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX": "${sourceDir}/install/${presetName}",
+        "CONFIG_DEFAULTS_PATH": "config/profiles/default/*.conf;config/profiles/data_stream/*.conf",
+        "DOTNET_BINARY_DIR": "${sourceDir}/build/$<CONFIG>/bin/net7.0",
+        "EXPORT_MD_CONSUMER": {
+          "type": "BOOL",
+          "value": "ON"
+        },
+        "SHARED_MEMORY_PREFIX": "data_stream"
       }
     }
   ],
@@ -244,7 +281,7 @@
 
     {
       "name": "spark-debug",
-      "displayName": "Debug",
+      "displayName": "Spark (Debug)",
       "inherits": "spark",
       "configurePreset": "spark",
       "configuration": "Debug"
@@ -252,7 +289,7 @@
 
     {
       "name": "spark-release",
-      "displayName": "Release",
+      "displayName": "Spark (Release)",
       "inherits": "spark",
       "configurePreset": "spark",
       "configuration": "Release"
@@ -280,28 +317,28 @@
     {
       "name": "sparkd-debug-clang",
       "configurePreset": "sparkd-debug-clang",
-      "displayName": "Debug (clang)",
+      "displayName": "Sparkd (Debug | Clang)",
       "inherits": "sparkd"
     },
 
     {
       "name": "sparkd-debug-gcc",
       "configurePreset": "sparkd-debug-gcc",
-      "displayName": "Debug (gcc)",
+      "displayName": "Sparkd (Debug | Gcc)",
       "inherits": "sparkd"
     },
 
     {
       "name": "sparkd-release-clang",
       "configurePreset": "sparkd-release-clang",
-      "displayName": "Release (clang)",
+      "displayName": "Sparkd (Release | Clang)",
       "inherits": "sparkd"
     },
 
     {
       "name": "sparkd-release-gcc",
       "configurePreset": "sparkd-release-gcc",
-      "displayName": "Release (gcc)",
+      "displayName": "Sparkd (Release | Gcc)",
       "inherits": "sparkd"
     },
 
@@ -318,14 +355,14 @@
 
     {
       "name": "spark-api-server-windows-debug",
-      "displayName": "Spark Api Server (Debug)",
+      "displayName": "Spark Api Server (Windows | Debug)",
       "inherits": "spark-api-server-windows",
       "configuration": "Debug"
     },
 
     {
       "name": "spark-api-server-windows-release",
-      "displayName": "Spark Api Server (Debug)",
+      "displayName": "Spark Api Server (Windows | Release)",
       "inherits": "spark-api-server-windows",
       "configuration": "Release"
     },
@@ -344,14 +381,14 @@
     {
       "name": "spark-api-server-linux-debug",
       "inherits": "spark-api-server-linux",
-      "displayName": "Spark Api Server (Debug)",
+      "displayName": "Spark Api Server (Linux | Debug)",
       "configuration": "Debug"
     },
 
     {
       "name": "spark-api-server-linux-release",
       "inherits": "spark-api-server-linux",
-      "displayName": "Spark Api Server (Release)",
+      "displayName": "Spark Api Server (Linux | Release)",
       "configuration": "Release"
     },
 
@@ -371,16 +408,30 @@
     },
 
     {
-      "name": "data-stream-suite-debug",
-      "displayName": "DataStreamSuite (Debug)",
-      "configurePreset": "data-stream-suite",
+      "name": "data-stream-suite-windows-debug",
+      "displayName": "Data Stream Suite (Windows | Debug)",
+      "configurePreset": "data-stream-suite-windows",
       "configuration": "Debug"
     },
 
     {
-      "name": "data-stream-suite-release",
-      "displayName": "DataStreamSuite (Release)",
-      "configurePreset": "data-stream-suite",
+      "name": "data-stream-suite-windows-release",
+      "displayName": "Data Stream Suite (Windows | Release)",
+      "configurePreset": "data-stream-suite-windows",
+      "configuration": "Release"
+    },
+
+    {
+      "name": "data-stream-suite-linux-debug",
+      "displayName": "Data Stream Suite (Linux | Debug)",
+      "configurePreset": "data-stream-suite-linux",
+      "configuration": "Debug"
+    },
+
+    {
+      "name": "data-stream-suite-linux-release",
+      "displayName": "Data Stream Suite (Linux | Release)",
+      "configurePreset": "data-stream-suite-linux",
       "configuration": "Release"
     }
   ]

src/DataStreamSuite/BaseUtilities/Crono.cs

@@ -1,41 +1,22 @@
-using mbts.spark;
+using System.Diagnostics;
 
-using System;
-using System.Runtime;
+namespace BCG.Utilities.General;
 
-namespace BCG.Utilities.General
-{
-	/// <summary>
-	/// Summary description for Crono.
-	/// </summary>
-	public class Crono
-	{
-      public Crono()
-      {
-         myTimer = new HighPerformanceTimer();
-      }
+/// <summary>
+/// Summary description for Crono.
+/// </summary>
+public class Crono {
+   readonly Stopwatch myTimer = new();
 
-      public void start() 
-      {myTimer.start();}
+   public void start() =>
+      myTimer.Start();
 
-      public void stop()
-      {myTimer.stop();}
+   public void stop() =>
+      myTimer.Stop();
 
-      public TimeSpan time
-      {
-         get 
-         {
-            return new TimeSpan((long) (myTimer.totalMilliseconds * TimeSpan.TicksPerMillisecond));
-         }
-      }
-
-      public double miliseconds
-      {
-         get
-         {return myTimer.totalMilliseconds;}
-      }
-
-      private HighPerformanceTimer myTimer;
-	}
+   public TimeSpan time =>
+      myTimer.Elapsed;
 
+   public double miliseconds =>
+      myTimer.Elapsed.TotalMilliseconds;
 }

src/DataStreamSuite/BlueRegistry/BlueRegistry.cs

@@ -1,192 +1,192 @@
-using System;
-using System.Collections;
-using System.Collections.Generic;
-using System.Collections.Concurrent;
-using System.Reflection;
-using Microsoft.Win32;
-
-namespace BCG
-{
-   public enum RegistryRoot { HKCU, HKLM }
-
-   [Serializable]
-   public class BlueRegistry
-   {
-      public const string BlueSubKey = @"Software\Blue Capital Group\";
-      public static readonly string ApplicationPrefix;
-      protected string myFullPath;
-
-      public BlueRegistry(string subPath)
-      {
-         myFullPath = string.Concat(BlueRegistry.ApplicationPrefix, @"\", subPath);
-      }
-
-      public BlueRegistry(BlueRegistry parent, string subPath)
-      {
-         myFullPath = string.Concat(parent.myFullPath, @"\", subPath);
-      }
-
-      static BlueRegistry()
-      {
-         string app = "Applications";
-
-         Assembly ass = Assembly.GetEntryAssembly();
-         if (ass != null)
-         {
-            app = ass.GetName().Name;
-
-            object[] attrs = ass.GetCustomAttributes(
-               Type.GetType("System.Reflection.AssemblyTitleAttribute"), true);
-
-            if (attrs.Length > 0 && ((AssemblyTitleAttribute)attrs[0]).Title != string.Empty)
-            {
-               app = ((AssemblyTitleAttribute)attrs[0]).Title;
-            }
-         }
-
-         ApplicationPrefix = string.Concat(BlueRegistry.BlueSubKey, app);
-      }
-
-      public object getValue(string name)
-      {
-         return getValue(RegistryRoot.HKCU, name);
-      }
-
-      public object getValue(string name, object defaultValue)
-      {
-         return getValue(RegistryRoot.HKCU, name, defaultValue);
-      }
-
-      public void setValue(string name, object value)
-      {
-         setValue(RegistryRoot.HKCU, name, value);
-      }
-
-      public void deleteValue(string name)
-      {
-         deleteValue(RegistryRoot.HKCU, name);
-      }
-
-      private RegistryKey myGetRegistryKey(RegistryRoot root)
-      {
-         if (root == RegistryRoot.HKCU)
-            return Registry.CurrentUser.CreateSubKey(myFullPath);
-         else
-            return Registry.LocalMachine.CreateSubKey(myFullPath);
-      }
-
-      #region Generic Methods
-      internal virtual void setValue(RegistryRoot root, string name, object value)
-      {
-         using (RegistryKey rk = myGetRegistryKey(root))
-         {
-            rk.SetValue(name, value);
-         }
-      }
-
-      internal virtual object getValue(RegistryRoot root, string name)
-      {
-         using (RegistryKey rk = myGetRegistryKey(root))
-         {
-            return rk.GetValue(name);
-         }
-      }
-
-      internal virtual void deleteValue(RegistryRoot root, string name)
-      {
-         using (RegistryKey rk = myGetRegistryKey(root))
-         {
-            rk.DeleteValue(name);
-         }
-      }
-
-      internal virtual object getValue(RegistryRoot root, string name, object defaultValue)
-      {
-         using (RegistryKey rk = myGetRegistryKey(root))
-         {
-            return rk.GetValue(name, defaultValue);
-         }
-      }
-      #endregion
-
-      #region Double
-      internal virtual void setDouble(RegistryRoot root, string name, double value)
-      {
-         using (RegistryKey rk = myGetRegistryKey(root))
-         {
-            DoubleRegistryHandler.setValue(rk, name, value);
-         }
-      }
-
-      internal virtual double getDouble(RegistryRoot root, string name)
-      {
-         using (RegistryKey rk = myGetRegistryKey(root))
-         {
-            return DoubleRegistryHandler.getValue(rk, name);
-         }
-      }
-      #endregion
-
-      #region Enum
-      internal virtual void setEnum(RegistryRoot root, string name, Enum value)
-      {
-         using (RegistryKey rk = myGetRegistryKey(root))
-         {
-            EnumRegistryHandler.setValue(rk, name, value);
-         }
-      }
-
-      internal virtual Enum getEnum(RegistryRoot root, string name, Type enumType)
-      {
-         using (RegistryKey rk = myGetRegistryKey(root))
-         {
-            return EnumRegistryHandler.getValue(rk, name, enumType);
-         }
-      }
-      #endregion
-
-      #region Array
-      internal virtual void setArray(RegistryRoot root, string name, Array array)
-      {
-         using (RegistryKey rk = myGetRegistryKey(root))
-         {
-            ArrayRegistryHandler.setValue(rk, name, array);
-         }
-      }
-
-      internal virtual Array getArray(RegistryRoot root, string name, Type elementType)
-      {
-         using (RegistryKey rk = myGetRegistryKey(root))
-         {
-            return ArrayRegistryHandler.getValue(rk, name, elementType);
-         }
-      }
-      #endregion
-
-      #region SortedList
-      internal virtual void setSortedList(RegistryRoot root, string name, SortedList slist)
-      {
-         using (RegistryKey rk = myGetRegistryKey(root))
-         {
-            SortedListRegistryHandler.setValue(rk, name, slist);
-         }
-      }
-
-      internal virtual SortedList getSortedList(RegistryRoot root, string name)
-      {
-         using (RegistryKey rk = myGetRegistryKey(root))
-         {
-            return SortedListRegistryHandler.getValue(rk, name);
-         }
-      }
-
-      internal virtual void deleteSortedList(RegistryRoot root, string name)
-      {
-         using (RegistryKey rk = myGetRegistryKey(root))
-         {
-            SortedListRegistryHandler.deleteValue(rk, name);
-         }
-      }
-      #endregion
-   }
-}
+using System;
+using System.Collections;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Collections.Concurrent;
+using System.Reflection;
+using Microsoft.Win32;
+
+namespace BCG
+{
+   public enum RegistryRoot { HKCU, HKLM }
+
+   [Serializable]
+   public class BlueRegistry
+   {
+      public const string BlueSubKey = @"Software\Blue Capital Group\";
+      public static readonly string ApplicationPrefix;
+      protected string myFullPath;
+
+      public BlueRegistry(string subPath)
+      {
+         myFullPath = string.Concat(BlueRegistry.ApplicationPrefix, @"\", subPath);
+      }
+
+      public BlueRegistry(BlueRegistry parent, string subPath)
+      {
+         myFullPath = string.Concat(parent.myFullPath, @"\", subPath);
+      }
+
+      static BlueRegistry()
+      {
+         string app = "Applications";
+
+         Assembly ass = Assembly.GetEntryAssembly();
+         if (ass != null)
+         {
+            app = ass.GetName().Name;
+
+            object[] attrs = ass.GetCustomAttributes(
+               Type.GetType("System.Reflection.AssemblyTitleAttribute"), true);
+
+            if (attrs.Length > 0 && ((AssemblyTitleAttribute)attrs[0]).Title != string.Empty)
+            {
+               app = ((AssemblyTitleAttribute)attrs[0]).Title;
+            }
+         }
+
+         ApplicationPrefix = string.Concat(BlueRegistry.BlueSubKey, app);
+      }
+
+      public object getValue(string name)
+      {
+         return getValue(RegistryRoot.HKCU, name);
+      }
+
+      public object getValue(string name, object defaultValue)
+      {
+         return getValue(RegistryRoot.HKCU, name, defaultValue);
+      }
+
+      public void setValue(string name, object value)
+      {
+         setValue(RegistryRoot.HKCU, name, value);
+      }
+
+      public void deleteValue(string name)
+      {
+         deleteValue(RegistryRoot.HKCU, name);
+      }
+
+      private RegistryKey myGetRegistryKey(RegistryRoot root)
+      {
+         if (root == RegistryRoot.HKCU)
+            return Registry.CurrentUser.CreateSubKey(myFullPath);
+         else
+            return Registry.LocalMachine.CreateSubKey(myFullPath);
+      }
+
+      #region Generic Methods
+      public virtual void setValue(RegistryRoot root, string name, object value)
+      {
+         using (RegistryKey rk = myGetRegistryKey(root))
+         {
+            rk.SetValue(name, value);
+         }
+      }
+
+      internal virtual object getValue(RegistryRoot root, string name)
+      {
+         using (RegistryKey rk = myGetRegistryKey(root))
+         {
+            return rk.GetValue(name);
+         }
+      }
+
+      internal virtual void deleteValue(RegistryRoot root, string name)
+      {
+         using (RegistryKey rk = myGetRegistryKey(root))
+         {
+            rk.DeleteValue(name);
+         }
+      }
+
+      public virtual object getValue(RegistryRoot root, string name, object defaultValue)
+      {
+         using (RegistryKey rk = myGetRegistryKey(root))
+         {
+            return rk.GetValue(name, defaultValue);
+         }
+      }
+      #endregion
+
+      #region Double
+      internal virtual void setDouble(RegistryRoot root, string name, double value)
+      {
+         using (RegistryKey rk = myGetRegistryKey(root))
+         {
+            DoubleRegistryHandler.setValue(rk, name, value);
+         }
+      }
+
+      internal virtual double getDouble(RegistryRoot root, string name)
+      {
+         using (RegistryKey rk = myGetRegistryKey(root))
+         {
+            return DoubleRegistryHandler.getValue(rk, name);
+         }
+      }
+      #endregion
+
+      #region Enum
+      internal virtual void setEnum(RegistryRoot root, string name, Enum value)
+      {
+         using (RegistryKey rk = myGetRegistryKey(root))
+         {
+            EnumRegistryHandler.setValue(rk, name, value);
+         }
+      }
+
+      internal virtual Enum getEnum(RegistryRoot root, string name, Type enumType)
+      {
+         using (RegistryKey rk = myGetRegistryKey(root))
+         {
+            return EnumRegistryHandler.getValue(rk, name, enumType);
+         }
+      }
+      #endregion
+
+      #region Array
+      internal virtual void setArray(RegistryRoot root, string name, Array array)
+      {
+         using (RegistryKey rk = myGetRegistryKey(root))
+         {
+            ArrayRegistryHandler.setValue(rk, name, array);
+         }
+      }
+
+      internal virtual Array getArray(RegistryRoot root, string name, Type elementType)
+      {
+         using (RegistryKey rk = myGetRegistryKey(root))
+         {
+            return ArrayRegistryHandler.getValue(rk, name, elementType);
+         }
+      }
+      #endregion
+
+      #region SortedList
+      internal virtual void setSortedList(RegistryRoot root, string name, SortedList slist)
+      {
+         using (RegistryKey rk = myGetRegistryKey(root))
+         {
+            SortedListRegistryHandler.setValue(rk, name, slist);
+         }
+      }
+
+      internal virtual SortedList getSortedList(RegistryRoot root, string name)
+      {
+         using (RegistryKey rk = myGetRegistryKey(root))
+         {
+            return SortedListRegistryHandler.getValue(rk, name);
+         }
+      }
+
+      internal virtual void deleteSortedList(RegistryRoot root, string name)
+      {
+         using (RegistryKey rk = myGetRegistryKey(root))
+         {
+            SortedListRegistryHandler.deleteValue(rk, name);
+         }
+      }
+      #endregion
+   }
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/BlueRegistry/BlueRegistry.csproj

@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFramework>net7.0-windows</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>net7.0</TargetFramework>
     <ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings>
     <Nullable>enable</Nullable>
-    <UseWindowsForms>true</UseWindowsForms>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
 </Project>

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/DataStreamExtensions.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+namespace Bts.DataStream;
+
+using BCG;
+
+using Spark.Core.Disposables;
+
+using System;
+using System.Reactive.Linq;
+
+public static class DataStreamExtensions {
+   public static ViewStream AsViewStream(this IObservable<DataPacket> source) =>
+      source as ViewStream ?? new ObservableViewStream(source);
+
+   public static IObservable<DataPacket> AsObservable(this ViewStream source) {
+      return source as IObservable<DataPacket> ?? Observable.Create<DataPacket>(Subscribe);
+
+      IDisposable Subscribe(IObserver<DataPacket> observer) {
+         source.onChange += OnChange;
+         return Disposable.Create(() => source.onChange -= OnChange);
+
+         void OnChange(object? newValue) =>
+            observer.OnNext(newValue as DataPacket ?? throw new ArgumentException(
+               $"Expected DataPacket, got {newValue?.GetType()}", nameof(newValue)));
+      }
+   }
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Misc/PandasScriptStream.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+namespace Bts.DataStream;
+
+using BCG;
+
+using bts;
+
+using System;
+using System.IO;
+
+public class PandasScriptStream : ViewStream {
+   public PandasScriptStream(ViewStream vs, string file)
+      : this(vs, file, null) { }
+
+   public PandasScriptStream(ViewStream vs, string file, string? pythonExe)
+      : this(vs, file, pythonExe, ViewStreamDatabase.instance) { }
+
+   public PandasScriptStream(ViewStream vs, string file, string? pythonExe, ViewStreamDatabase vsd) {
+      mySetRealSource(new PandasStream(vs, readFile(), pythonExe, vsd));
+
+      string readFile() {
+         try {
+            return File.ReadAllText(file);
+         } catch (Exception ex) {
+            Log.Gen.error($"PandasScriptStream error reading file: {ex}");
+            throw;
+         }
+      }
+   }
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Misc/PandasStream.cs

@@ -1,62 +1,130 @@
-// using System;
-// using System.Diagnostics;
-
-// using BCG;
-// using BCG.Utilities.General;
-
-
-// namespace bts {
-
-//     public class PandasStream : ViewStream, IWorker {
-//         //C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\python.exe
-
-//         public PandasStream(ViewStream vs, ViewStreamDatabase vsd, string pandas_code) {
-
-//         }
-
-//         public PandasStream(ViewStream vs, string pandas_code) :
-//         this(vs, ViewStreamDatabase.instance, pandas_code) {
-//         }
-
-
-//         protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber() {
-
-//             // string python_code = @"
-//             //    import winsound
-//             //    frequency = 2500  # Set frequency (in Hz)
-//             //    duration = 1000   # Set duration (in milliseconds)
-//             //    winsound.Beep(frequency, duration)
-//             // ";
-//             string python_code = @"
-//             file_path = \"C:\\Temp\\test2.txt\\"  # r prefix for raw string to avoid escape characters
-//             with open(file_path, \"w\") as f:
-//                 f.write(\"Hello, world!\n\")
-//             ";
-
-//             execute_python_code(python_code);
-//         }
-
-//         static void execute_python_code(string python_code) {
-//             ProcessStartInfo start = new ProcessStartInfo();
-//             start.FileName = "python"; // Python executable
-//             start.Arguments = "-c \"" + python_code.Replace("\"", "\\\"") + "\""; // Pass code as argument
-//             start.UseShellExecute = false;
-//             start.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
-
-//             using (Process process = Process.Start(start)) {
-//                 using (System.IO.StreamReader reader = process.StandardOutput) {
-//                     string result = reader.ReadToEnd();
-//                     Console.Write(result);
-//                 }
-//             }
-//         }
-
-//         protected override void myOnLastSubscriber() {
-//         }
-
-//         public void doWork() {
-
-//         }
-
-//     }
-// }
+namespace Bts.DataStream;
+
+using BCG;
+using BCG.Extensions;
+using BCG.Utilities.General;
+
+using bts;
+using bts.collections;
+
+using Bts.DataStreamCore;
+
+using Spark.Core.Disposables;
+
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Diagnostics;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
+using System.Text;
+
+public class PandasStream : ViewStream, IWorker {
+   readonly string inputFile = $"PandasStream_{Guid.NewGuid()}.csv";
+   readonly string outputFile = $"PandasStream_{Guid.NewGuid()}.csv";
+   readonly string pythonExe;
+   readonly ViewStreamDatabase vsd;
+   readonly CSVSaverStream inputCsvStream;
+   readonly Lazy<string> pythonCode;
+   IDictionary<int, IBlueRow>? lastRowMap = null;
+   int inputVersion = 0;
+   int outputVersion = 0;
+   DateTime lastFireTime = DateTime.MinValue;
+   TimeSpan fireThrottle = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(3);
+   IDisposable? dispose;
+
+   public PandasStream(ViewStream vs, string dataFrameExpression)
+      : this(vs, dataFrameExpression, null, ViewStreamDatabase.instance) { }
+
+   public PandasStream(ViewStream vs, string dataFrameExpression, string? pythonExe, ViewStreamDatabase vsd) {
+      pythonExe ??= Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("PYTHON_EXE") ?? @"C:\Users\johnc\GoogleDrive\Repos\bts\spark\.venv\Scripts\python.exe";
+      this.pythonExe = pythonExe;
+      this.vsd = vsd;
+      // This should fire an update when it writes to the output file
+      inputCsvStream = new CSVSaverStream(vs, inputFile, true, int.MaxValue, true);
+      pythonCode = new(getPythonCode);
+
+      string getPythonCode() {
+         var imports =
+@"import numpy as np
+import pandas as pd
+import sys
+";
+         var bd = new StringBuilder(imports);
+         bd.AppendLine($"df=pd.read_csv('{inputFile}')");
+         bd.AppendLine(dataFrameExpression);
+         bd.AppendLine($"df.to_csv('{outputFile}', index=False)");
+         return bd.ToString();
+      }
+   }
+
+   protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber() {
+      vsd.addWorker(this);
+      inputCsvStream.onChange += onInputChanged;
+      this.dispose = Disposable.Create(dispose);
+
+      void onInputChanged(object newValue) =>
+         inputVersion++;
+
+      void dispose() {
+         inputCsvStream.onChange -= onInputChanged;
+         vsd.removeWorker(this);
+         deleteFile(inputFile);
+         deleteFile(outputFile);
+      }
+
+      void deleteFile(string file, [CallerArgumentExpression(nameof(file))] string name = "") {
+         if (!File.Exists(file)) {
+            return;
+         }
+         try {
+            File.Delete(file);
+         } catch (Exception ex) {
+            Log.Gen.error($"PandasStream. Error deleting {name} file '{file}': {ex}");
+         }
+      }
+   }
+
+   protected override void myOnLastSubscriber() =>
+      Disposable.dispose(ref dispose);
+
+   static void executePythonCode(string pythonCode, string? pythonExe = null) {
+      pythonExe ??= "python";
+      var start = new ProcessStartInfo {
+         FileName = pythonExe,
+         Arguments = "-c \"" + pythonCode.Replace("\"", "\\\"") + "\"",
+         UseShellExecute = false,
+         RedirectStandardOutput = true
+      };
+      using var process = Process.Start(start)
+         ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("Failed to launch python");
+      process.WaitForExit();
+   }
+
+   void IWorker.doWork() {
+      if (outputVersion == inputVersion) {
+         return;
+      }
+      var now = DateTime.Now;
+      var elapsedSinceLastFire = now - lastFireTime;
+      if (elapsedSinceLastFire < fireThrottle) {
+         return;
+      }
+      outputVersion = inputVersion;
+      executePythonCode(pythonCode.Value, pythonExe);
+      var rows = BlueDataUtility.createRowsFromCSVFileWithoutTypes(outputFile, out var schema);
+      var rowMap = rows as IDictionary<int, IBlueRow> ?? rows.Cast<IBlueRow>().ToDictionary(r => r.Id());
+      var comp = BlueRowEqualityComparer.Instance;
+      var deletedRows = new BlueTable(schema);
+      var addedRows = new BlueTable(schema);
+      if (lastRowMap is not null) {
+         deletedRows.SetItems(lastRowMap.Where(oldRow =>
+            !(rowMap.TryGetValue(oldRow.Key, out var newRow) && comp.Equals(newRow, oldRow.Value))));
+         addedRows.SetItems(rowMap.Where(newRow =>
+            !(lastRowMap.TryGetValue(newRow.Key, out var oldRow) && comp.Equals(oldRow, newRow.Value))));
+      }
+      lastRowMap = rowMap;
+      lastFireTime = DateTime.Now;
+      myFireEvent(new DataPacket(rows, addedRows, deletedRows));
+   }
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Misc/TCPConnectionTestStream.cs

@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ namespace BCG {
 
         protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber() {
             MasterWorker.getInstance(false).addWorker(this, _send_period);
-            var server_address = new BlutoSubAddress(_ip, _port);
-            bts.AsyncTCPConnector_APM.connect_to(server_address, this);
+            var server_rci = new RemoteConnectionInfo(_ip, _port);
+            bts.AsyncTCPConnector_APM.connect_to(server_rci, this);
         }
 
         protected override void myOnLastSubscriber() {

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/ObservableViewStream.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+namespace Bts.DataStream;
+
+using BCG;
+
+using bts;
+
+using System;
+
+public class ObservableViewStream : ViewStream, IObservable<DataPacket>, IDisposable {
+   readonly IObservable<DataPacket> source;
+   IDisposable? subscription;
+
+   public ObservableViewStream(IObservable<DataPacket> source) =>
+      this.source = source;
+
+   public void Dispose() {
+      GC.SuppressFinalize(this);
+      if (subscription is not null) {
+         subscription.Dispose();
+         subscription = null;
+      }
+   }
+
+   protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber() {
+      Log.isnull(subscription);
+      subscription = source.Subscribe(myFireEvent);
+   }
+
+   protected override void myOnLastSubscriber() {
+      Log.notnull(subscription);
+      subscription.Dispose();
+      subscription = null;
+   }
+
+   IDisposable IObservable<DataPacket>.Subscribe(IObserver<DataPacket> observer) =>
+      source.Subscribe(observer);
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Offloading/AddToCloudStream.cs

@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-using BCG;
-
-namespace BCG
-{
-   // this is a stream so we can run it from the DSQA (since dsqa can only load streams)
-   [DataStreamUserRespresentation("add_to_cloud")]
-   public class AddToCloudStream : ViewStream
-   {
-      private readonly string _name, _stream_exp;
-      private StreamOffloadRequestor _requestor = new StreamOffloadRequestor();
-      public AddToCloudStream(string name, params string[] lines)
-      : this(name, 0, lines)
-      {
-      }
-
-      public AddToCloudStream(string name, int persist, params string[] lines)
-      {
-         _name = name;
-         _stream_exp = getExpression(lines);
-         _requestor.add_to_cloud(_name, _stream_exp, persist == 1);
-         mySetRealSource(new TableStream("cloud_streams"));
-      }
-
-      static string getExpression(params string[] lines) {
-         for (int i = 0; i < lines.Length; i++) {
-            // unescape quotes
-            lines[i] = lines[i].Replace("\\\"", "\"");
-         }
-         return string.Join("\n", lines);
-      }
-   }
-}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Offloading/CloudStreamManager.cs

@@ -1,31 +1,22 @@
-using BCG;
-
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 
-using mbts.config;
-using bts.utils;
-using System.Threading.Tasks;
 using Bts.DataStreamExpressions;
-using System.Collections.Generic;
 using BCG.Utilities.General;
+using bts;
 
-namespace BCG
-{
+namespace BCG {
    // listens to the requests posted on "cloud_streams" request table, and 
    // if unfulfilled starts a ViewPubsliher
-   public class CloudStreamManager : IWorker
-   {
-      public class StreamPubUnit
-      {
+   public class RemoteQueryManager : IWorker {
+      public class StreamPubUnit {
          public string name;
          public string stream_expression;
          public ViewStream stream;
          public bool persist;
          public ViewPublisher view_publisher;
 
-         public StreamPubUnit(string name_, string stream_expression_, ViewStream stream_, bool persist_, ViewPublisher view_publisher_)
-         {
+         public StreamPubUnit(string name_, string stream_expression_, ViewStream stream_, bool persist_, ViewPublisher view_publisher_) {
             name = name_;
             stream_expression = stream_expression_;
             stream = stream_;
@@ -33,7 +24,7 @@ namespace BCG
             view_publisher = view_publisher_;
          }
       }
-      static ViewStream build_stream(string stream_expression)
+      static ViewStream? build_stream(string stream_expression)
       {
          try
          {
@@ -41,9 +32,7 @@ namespace BCG
             var rv = exp.getView(new Dictionary<string, StatementExpression>(0));
             return rv;
 
-         }
-         catch (Exception ex)
-         {
+         } catch (Exception ex) {
             bts.Log.assert(false, $"Could not build stream: {stream_expression} ex: {ex}");
             return null;
          }
@@ -52,34 +41,37 @@ namespace BCG
          _stream_pub_map = new Dictionary<string, StreamPubUnit>();
       private ViewStream _stream = new TableStream("cloud_streams");
       private PubTableBroker _broker = new PubTableBroker();
+      private ManagedSubscriber _sub = ManagedSubscriber.instance;
 
-      public CloudStreamManager()
-      {
+
+      public RemoteQueryManager() {
          _stream.onChange += _on_str;
-
+         _sub.subscribe("RemoteRequest", (string tag, byte[] data) => {
+            RemoteRequest req = RemoteRequest.construct_from_bytes(data);
+            _spawn_remote_stream(req.published_table_name, req.stream_expression, false);
+         });
       }
       private void _on_str(object obj)
       {
-         DataPacket dp = obj as DataPacket;
+         if (obj is not DataPacket dp) {
+            return;
+         }
          foreach (IBlueRow r in dp.newRows)
          {
             string name = r.get<string>("name");
             bool persist = r.get<bool>("persist");
             string stream_exp = r.get<string>("stream_exp");
-            if (!_stream_pub_map.ContainsKey(name))
-            {
-               _assign(name, stream_exp, persist);
+            if (!_stream_pub_map.ContainsKey(name)) {
+               _spawn_remote_stream(name, stream_exp, persist);
             }
          }
       }
 
-      private void _assign(string name, string stream_expression, bool persist)
-      {
+      private void _spawn_remote_stream(string name, string stream_expression, bool persist) {
          bts.Log.Gen.info($"CloudStreamManager.assign name: {name} stream_expression: {stream_expression}");
          ViewStream stream = build_stream(stream_expression);
          _expose_to_ws(name, stream);
-         if (persist)
-         {
+         if (persist) {
             stream = new PersistorStream(stream, name, "C:\\Temp\\", 1000000);   // 10MBs
          }
          ViewPublisher view_pub = new ViewPublisher(name, _broker, stream);
@@ -87,14 +79,12 @@ namespace BCG
          _stream_pub_map.Add(name, u);
       }
 
-      private void _expose_to_ws(string name, ViewStream stream)
-      {
+      private void _expose_to_ws(string name, ViewStream stream) {
          // TODO: john
       }
 
-      public void doWork()
-      {
+      public void doWork() {
 
       }
    }
-}
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Offloading/RemoteQueryStream.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+using BCG;
+
+using bts;
+
+using System;
+
+namespace BCG {
+   // this is a stream so we can run it from the DSQA (since dsqa can only load streams)
+   [DataStreamUserRespresentation("remoteQuery")]
+   public class RemoteQueryStream : ViewStream {
+      private readonly string _name, _stream_exp;
+      private PublisherCore _publisher_core = new PublisherCore();
+      private ViewStream _source_str;
+
+      public RemoteQueryStream(params string[] lines) {
+         _stream_exp = get_expression(lines);
+         _name = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
+         _name = $"remotereq_{DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds().ToString()}";
+         //_name.Replace("-", "_");
+
+      }
+
+      protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber() {
+         RemoteRequest rem_req = new RemoteRequest(_stream_exp, _name);
+         byte[] rem_req_bytes = rem_req.serialize();
+         _publisher_core.publish("System", "RemoteRequest", rem_req_bytes);
+         _source_str = new TableStream(_name);
+         _source_str.onChange += new ChangeDelegate(_handle_data);
+      }
+
+      protected override void myOnLastSubscriber() {
+         //maybe there should be a way to turn remote requests off ?
+         _source_str.onChange -= new ChangeDelegate(_handle_data);
+      }
+
+      static string get_expression(params string[] lines) {
+         for (int i = 0; i < lines.Length; i++) {
+            // unescape quotes
+            lines[i] = lines[i].Replace("\\\"", "\"");
+         }
+         return string.Join("\n", lines);
+      }
+
+      private void _handle_data(object o) {
+         myFireEvent(o);
+      }
+   }
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Offloading/RemoteRequest.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+namespace bts {
+   using System.IO;
+   using BCG;
+
+   using System.IO;
+   using System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow;
+
+   public class RemoteRequest {
+      public readonly string stream_expression;
+      public readonly string published_table_name;
+      public RemoteRequest(string stream_expression_, string published_table_name_) {
+         stream_expression = stream_expression_;
+         published_table_name = published_table_name_;
+      }
+      public byte[] serialize() {
+         var str = new MemoryStream();
+         var bw = new BinaryWriter(str);
+         bw.write_string_cpp(stream_expression);
+         bw.write_string_cpp(published_table_name);
+         return str.ToArray();
+      }
+
+      public static RemoteRequest construct_from_bytes(byte[] ser_bytes) {
+         BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(new MemoryStream(ser_bytes));
+         string stream_expression_ = br.read_string_cpp();
+         string published_table_name_ = br.read_string_cpp();
+         return new RemoteRequest(stream_expression_, published_table_name_);
+
+      }
+   }
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Offloading/StreamOffloadRequestor.cs

@@ -1,59 +1,54 @@
-using BCG;
+// using BCG;
 
-using System.Linq;
+// using bts;
 
-namespace BCG
-{
-   public class StreamOffloadRequestor
-   {
-      public class OffloadOp
-      {
-         string name;
-         string stream_exp;
-      }
-      private IBlueTableSchema _schema;
-      private IBlueRowCollection _rows;
-      private PubTableBroker _broker = new PubTableBroker();
-      ViewStream _existing_offloads_vs = new TableStream("cloud_streams");
-      public StreamOffloadRequestor()
-      {
-         _schema = new BlueTableSchema("cloud_streams",
-                                   new ColumnInfo("id", 0, typeof(int)),
-                                   new ColumnInfo("name", 1, typeof(string)),
-                                   new ColumnInfo("persist", 2, typeof(bool)),
-                                   new ColumnInfo("stream_exp", 3, typeof(string)));
-         _existing_offloads_vs.onChange += _on_str;
-      }
-      private void _on_str(object obj)
-      {
-         DataPacket dp = obj as DataPacket;
-         _rows = dp.newRows;
-         // this is needed so the broker knows the state of the table
-         _broker.createTable(_rows);
-      }
-      public void add_to_cloud(string name, string stream_exp, bool persist)
-      {
-         // check if it exists
-         if (_rows == null)
-         {
-            BlueTable table = new BlueTable(_schema);
-            IBlueRow nr = new BlueRow(_schema, 0, name, persist, stream_exp);
-            table.addRow(nr);
-            _broker.createTable(table);
-            // create table  
-         }
-         else
-         {
-            if (exists(name))
-               return;
-            IBlueRow nr = new BlueRow(_schema, _rows.Count, name, persist, stream_exp);
-            _broker.addRow(nr);
-         }
-      }
+// using System.Linq;
 
-      bool exists(string name)
-      {
-         return _rows.to_ienum().Where(r => name == r.get<string>("name")).Count() > 0;
-      }
-   }
-}
+// namespace BCG {
+//    // used on the client
+//    public class StreamOffloadRequestor {
+//       public class OffloadOp {
+//          string name;
+//          string stream_exp;
+//       }
+//       private IBlueTableSchema _schema;
+//       private IBlueRowCollection _rows;
+//       private PubTableBroker _broker = new PubTableBroker();
+//       ViewStream _existing_offloads_vs = new TableStream("cloud_streams");
+//       public StreamOffloadRequestor() {
+//          _schema = new BlueTableSchema("cloud_streams",
+//                                    new ColumnInfo("id", 0, typeof(int)),
+//                                    new ColumnInfo("name", 1, typeof(string)),
+//                                    new ColumnInfo("persist", 2, typeof(bool)),
+//                                    new ColumnInfo("stream_exp", 3, typeof(string)));
+//          _existing_offloads_vs.onChange += _on_str;
+//       }
+//       private void _on_str(object obj) {
+//          DataPacket dp = obj as DataPacket;
+//          _rows = dp.newRows;
+//          // this is needed so the broker knows the state of the table
+//          _broker.create_table(_rows);
+//       }
+//       public void add_to_cloud(string name, string stream_exp, bool persist) {
+//          // check if it exists
+//          if (_rows == null) {
+//             BlueTable table = new BlueTable(_schema);
+//             IBlueRow nr = new BlueRow(_schema, 0, name, persist, stream_exp);
+//             table.addRow(nr);
+//             _broker.create_table(table);
+//             // create table  
+//          } else {
+//             if (exists(name))
+//                return;
+//             IBlueRow nr = new BlueRow(_schema, _rows.Count, name, persist, stream_exp);
+//             // TODO: use make_batch_changes instead
+//             Log.assert(false, "Fix addRow");
+//             //_broker.addRow(nr);
+//          }
+//       }
+
+//       bool exists(string name) {
+//          return _rows.to_ienum().Where(r => name == r.get<string>("name")).Count() > 0;
+//       }
+//    }
+// }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/AddColumns/AddColumnsRow.cs

@@ -1,17 +1,14 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections;
 
-namespace BCG
-{
-   internal class AddColumnsRow : IBlueRow
-   {
+namespace BCG {
+   internal class AddColumnsRow : IBlueRow {
       private IBlueTableSchema mySchema;
       private IBlueRow myRow;
       //private object[] myCachedValues;
 
       #region Constructors
-      public AddColumnsRow (IBlueTableSchema schema, IBlueRow row)
-      {
+      public AddColumnsRow(IBlueTableSchema schema, IBlueRow row) {
          mySchema = schema;
          myRow = row;
          //myCachedValues = new object[schema.columnNames.Length];
@@ -19,85 +16,78 @@ namespace BCG
       #endregion
 
       #region IBlueRow members
-      public IBlueTableSchema schema{get{return mySchema;}}
+      public IBlueTableSchema schema { get { return mySchema; } }
       #endregion
 
       #region ICollection members
-      public int Count {get{return mySchema.columnNames.Length;}}
+      public int Count { get { return mySchema.columnNames.Length; } }
 
-      public bool IsSynchronized {get{return false;}}
+      public bool IsSynchronized { get { return false; } }
 
-      public object SyncRoot {get{return this;}}
+      public object SyncRoot { get { return this; } }
 
-      public void CopyTo (Array array, int index)  
-      {
+      public void CopyTo(Array array, int index) {
          int i = index;
          foreach (object o in this as IEnumerable)
-            array.SetValue (o, i++);
+            array.SetValue(o, i++);
       }
       #endregion
 
       #region IDictionary members
-      public bool IsFixedSize {get{return true;}}
+      public bool IsFixedSize { get { return true; } }
 
-      public bool IsReadOnly {get{return true;}}
+      public bool IsReadOnly { get { return true; } }
 
       /// <summary>
       /// The key can either be the string corrsponding to the column name or
       /// the order of the column
       /// </summary>
-      public object this [object key]
-      {
-         get
-         {
+      public object this[object key] {
+         get {
             if (key is string)
                return this[(string)key];
             return this[(int)key];
          }
-         set {throw new NotSupportedException ("The IBlueRow is readonly");}
+         set { throw new NotSupportedException("The IBlueRow is readonly"); }
       }
 
-      public object this[int index]
-      {
-         get
-         {
+      public object this[int index] {
+         get {
             //if (myCachedValues[index] == null)
             //   myCachedValues[index] = mySchema[index].isConstant ? mySchema[index].colValue : myRow[index];
             //return myCachedValues[index];
-            return mySchema[index].isConstant ? mySchema[index].colValue : myRow[index];
+            return mySchema[index].isConstant ? DBNull.Value : myRow[index];
          }
       }
 
-      public object this[string colName]  {get{return this[mySchema[colName].colNo];}}
+      public object this[string colName] { get { return this[mySchema[colName].colNo]; } }
 
-      public ICollection Keys{get{return mySchema.columnNames;}}
+      public ICollection Keys { get { return mySchema.columnNames; } }
 
-      public ICollection Values
-      {
-         get
-         {
+      public ICollection Values {
+         get {
             object[] retVal = new object[mySchema.columnNames.Length];
-            CopyTo (retVal, 0);
+            CopyTo(retVal, 0);
             return retVal;
          }
       }
 
-      public void Add (object key, object value)   {throw new NotSupportedException ("The IBlueRow is readonly");}
+      public void Add(object key, object value) { throw new NotSupportedException("The IBlueRow is readonly"); }
 
-      public void Clear () {throw new NotSupportedException ("The IBlueRow is readonly");}
+      public void Clear() { throw new NotSupportedException("The IBlueRow is readonly"); }
 
-      public bool Contains (object key){return mySchema[(string)key] != null;}
+      public bool Contains(object key) { return mySchema[(string)key] != null; }
 
       /// <summary>
       /// Note, the default enumerator is the IDictionary's enumerator, so if user needs to
       /// iterate through the values, typecast this into an IEnumerable
       /// </summary>
       /// <returns></returns>
-      public IDictionaryEnumerator GetEnumerator() {return new BlueRowDictionaryEnumerator(this);}
-      
-      IEnumerator IEnumerable.GetEnumerator () {return new BlueRowEnumerator(this);}
+      public IDictionaryEnumerator GetEnumerator() { return new BlueRowDictionaryEnumerator(this); }
 
-      public void Remove (object key) {throw new NotSupportedException ("The IBlueRow is readonly");}
+      IEnumerator IEnumerable.GetEnumerator() { return new BlueRowEnumerator(this); }
+
+      public void Remove(object key) { throw new NotSupportedException("The IBlueRow is readonly"); }
       #endregion
 
    }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/AddColumns/AddColumnsStream.cs

@@ -1,6 +1,34 @@
-namespace BCG;
-
-public class AddColumnsStream : MapStream {
-   public AddColumnsStream(ViewStream vs, string columnDef)
-      : base(vs, new ColumnAdder(columnDef)) { }
-}
+using System;
+
+namespace BCG {
+   public class AddColumnsStream : ViewStream {
+      public static Tuple<string, Type, object> parse_exp(string exp) {
+         string[] toks = exp.Split(':');
+         string col_name = toks[0];
+         string col_value = toks[1];
+         Tuple<Type, object> tup = BlueDataUtility.guess_type(col_value);
+         return Tuple.Create(col_name, tup.Item1, tup.Item2);
+      }
+
+      private Tuple<string, Type, object> _new_col;
+      private IBlueTableSchema _out_schema;
+
+      public AddColumnsStream(ViewStream vs, string col_def) {
+         _new_col = parse_exp(col_def);
+         ViewStream rs = new MapStream(vs, (IBlueTableSchema s) => _get_schema(s), (IBlueRow r) => _map(r));
+         mySetRealSource(rs);
+      }
+
+      private IBlueTableSchema _get_schema(IBlueTableSchema input_schema) {
+         if (_out_schema == null)
+            _out_schema = BlueDataUtility.add_column(input_schema, _new_col.Item1, _new_col.Item2);
+         return _out_schema;
+      }
+
+      private IBlueRow _map(IBlueRow r) {
+         MutableBlueRow rv = new MutableBlueRow(_get_schema(r.schema), r);
+         rv.setValue(_new_col.Item1, _new_col.Item3);
+         return rv;
+      }
+   }
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/Distinct/DistinctRowStream.cs

@@ -1,23 +1,24 @@
+using bts;
+
 using System;
 using System.Collections;
 
-namespace BCG
-{
+namespace BCG {
 	/// <summary>
 	/// Provides a stream that with distinct rows with respect to the columns
 	/// the user specifies in the argument
 	/// </summary>
-	[DataStreamUserRespresentation ("distinct")]
-	public class DistinctRowStream : ViewStream
-	{
-		public DistinctRowStream (ViewStream stream, params string[] cols)
-		{
-         ArrayList groupByCols = new ArrayList ();
-         foreach (string col in cols)
-            foreach (string c in col.Split (' '))
-               groupByCols.Add (c);
-         mySetRealSource (new GroupByStream (stream, 
-            new DistinctRowEvaluator (groupByCols.ToArray (typeof(string)) as string[]), false));
+	[DataStreamUserRespresentation("distinct")]
+	public class DistinctRowStream : ViewStream {
+		public DistinctRowStream(ViewStream stream, params string[] cols) {
+			var g_by_eval = new DistinctRowEvaluator(cols);
+			ViewStream r = new GroupByStream(stream, g_by_eval);
+			var proj_exp = String.Empty;
+			foreach (var c in cols)
+				proj_exp += $"{c} ";
+			proj_exp = proj_exp.Trim();
+			r = new NewProjectStream(r, proj_exp);
+			mySetRealSource(r);
 		}
 	}
 }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/FileStreams/DumpLoaderStream.cs

@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-// using System;
-// using System.Collections.Generic;
-// using System.Text;
-// using System.IO;
-
-// using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
-
-// namespace BCG
-// {
-//    public class DumpLoaderStream : ViewStream, ISideEffectStream
-//    {
-//       //wtf
-//       //public class Exception : System.Exception
-//       //{public Exception(string msg) : base(msg) { }}
-
-//       public DumpLoaderStream(string fileName, int secondsBetweenPolls)
-//       {
-//          mySetRealSource(
-//             new PollStream(() => new LoaderStream(fileName).rows, secondsBetweenPolls, 
-//                ViewStreamDatabase.instance));
-//       }
-
-//       public DumpLoaderStream(string fileName)
-//       {
-//         if (fileName == null)
-//            throw new LoaderStream.Exception("File name cannot be null");
-
-//         for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
-//            try
-//            {
-//               using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
-//               {
-//                  IClientDeserializer deser = new ClientUniversalDeserializer();
-//                  byte[] the_ops;
-//                  Array the_rows;
-//                  deser.deserialize(new Stream[] { fs }, out the_ops, out the_rows);
-
-//                  mySetRealSource(new BlueRowCollectionStaticStream((IBlueRowCollection)the_rows.GetValue(0)));
-//               }
-//               break;
-//            }
-//            catch (IOException)
-//            {
-//               System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(50);
-//            }
-
-//       }
-//    }
-// }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/FileStreams/LoaderStream.cs

@@ -1,48 +1,25 @@
-using System;
-using System.Collections.Generic;
-using System.Text;
-using System.IO;
+using BCG;
 
-using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
-
-namespace BCG
-{
+namespace bts {
+   // This is the other side of the SaverStream, its "loads" the stream and fires once
    [DataStreamUserRespresentation("loader")]
-   public class LoaderStream : ViewStream, ISideEffectStream
-   {
-      public class Exception : System.Exception
-      {public Exception(string msg) : base(msg) { }}
+   public class LoaderStream : ViewStream {
 
-      public LoaderStream(string fileName, int secondsBetweenPolls)
-      {
-         mySetRealSource(
-            new PollStream(() => new LoaderStream(fileName).rows, secondsBetweenPolls, 
-               ViewStreamDatabase.instance));
+      private string _filename;
+      private IStreamMsgDeserilizer _deser = new StreamIODeserializationController();
+
+
+      public LoaderStream(string filename) {
+         _filename = filename;
       }
 
-      public LoaderStream(string fileName)
-      {
-        if (fileName == null)
-           throw new LoaderStream.Exception("File name cannot be null");
-
-        for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
-           try
-           {
-              using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
-              {
-                  BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter();
-#pragma warning disable SYSLIB0011
-                  BlueTable bt = (BlueTable)bf.Deserialize(fs);
-#pragma warning restore SYSLIB0011
-                  mySetRealSource(new BlueRowCollectionStaticStream(bt));
-              }
-              break;
-           }
-           catch (IOException)
-           {
-              System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(50);
-           }
-
+      protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber() {
+         byte[] ser_msg = StreamSerializationUtils.read_from_file(_filename);
+         StreamIOMessage msg = _deser.deserialize(ser_msg);
+         Log.assert(msg.op == StreamIOMessage.StreamOp.CREATE);
+         IBlueRowCollection rows = msg.create_message.rows;
+         DataPacket dp = BlueDataUtility.build_dp_inc(rows, myLastValue as DataPacket);
+         myFireEvent(dp);
       }
    }
 }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/FileStreams/PersistorStream.cs

@@ -5,9 +5,11 @@ using System.Text;
 using System.IO;
 using Google.Protobuf;
 using System.Globalization;
+using BCG;
 
-namespace BCG {
-   // Writes all the udpates to a stream in a file.
+namespace bts {
+   // Writes all the udpates to a stream in a file or multiples files dependong on the rollover size (as opposed to Saver
+   // which just writes one update, as a create)
    // File naming:
    // token_epoch_yyyyMMdd_HHmmss
    // File location: directory(passed)\token\
@@ -24,7 +26,7 @@ namespace BCG {
       private ViewStream _source_stream;
       private string _token;
       private FileStream _out_fs;
-      private IBlueDataSerializer _serializer;
+      private IStreamIOMsgSerializer _serializer;// = new UniversalStreamIOSerializer();
       private string _file_name = String.Empty;
       private long _rollover_size;
       private readonly string _directory_path;
@@ -93,20 +95,19 @@ namespace BCG {
       void _on_change(object new_value) {
          DataPacket dp = new_value as DataPacket;
          byte[] serialized_update = null;
-         bool _write_create = _serializer == null || _n_updates_in_current_file == 0;
-         _serializer = _serializer ?? new UniversalSerializer(dp.schema);
-         if (_write_create) {
-            // new files always starts with create
-            _serializer.serialize(StreamOpCode.create, new IBlueRowCollection[] { dp.newRows }, out serialized_update);
+         bool first_write = _serializer == null || _n_updates_in_current_file == 0;
+         _serializer = _serializer ?? new UniversalStreamIOSerializer();
+         if (first_write) {
+            // first file always starts with create
+            serialized_update = _serializer.serialize(new bts.StreamIOMessage(new bts.StreamIOMessage.CreateMessage(dp.newRows)));
          } else
-            _serializer.serialize(StreamOpCode.multipleRemoveAdd, new IBlueRowCollection[] { dp.deletedRows, dp.addedRows }, out serialized_update);
-
+            serialized_update = _serializer.serialize(new bts.StreamIOMessage(new bts.StreamIOMessage.MultipleRemoveAddMessage(dp.deletedRows, dp.addedRows)));
          BinaryWriter bw = new BinaryWriter(_out_fs);
          long utc_epoch = epoch_now();
 
          //time, length of data, data
-         bw.Write(utc_epoch);
-         bw.Write(serialized_update.Length);
+         //bw.Write(utc_epoch);
+         //bw.Write(serialized_update.Length);
          bw.Write(serialized_update);
          _out_fs.Flush();
          myFireEvent(dp);

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/FileStreams/PlaybackStream.cs

@@ -1,190 +0,0 @@
-// using System;
-// using System.Collections.Generic;
-// using System.Linq;
-// using System.Text;
-// using System.IO;
-// using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
-// using BCG.Utilities.General;
-// using bts.collections;
-// using System.Reflection.Metadata;
-
-
-// namespace BCG {
-
-//    public class PlaybackStream : ViewStream, IWorker {
-//       private readonly PlaybackType _type;
-//       private BlueTable _current_table;
-//       private IClientDeserializer _deserilializer = new ClientUniversalDeserializer();
-//       // these are the packets already downloaded from the current file
-//       private List<PlaybackPacket> _packets = new List<PlaybackPacket>();
-//       //private IEnumerable<FileStream> _file_streams = new List<FileStream>();
-//       private IEnumerable<string> _file_names;
-//       private Tuple<int, FileStream> _current_fs = new Tuple<int, FileStream>(-1, null);
-//       private DateTime _playback_t0, _playback_t1;
-//       private bool _all_files_read = false;
-//       SnapshotData _snapshot_data = null; // only initialized when in snapshot mode
-
-//       public PlaybackStream(string datetime_start, string datetime_end, string directory_name, string token) {
-//          _type = PlaybackType.Streaming;
-//          _playback_t0 = PersistorStream.parse_datetime(datetime_start);
-//          _playback_t1 = PersistorStream.parse_datetime(datetime_end);
-//          string token_directory_name = $"{directory_name}\\{token}";
-//          bts.Log.Gen.info($"PlaybackStream t0: {_playback_t0} t1: {_playback_t1} dir: {token_directory_name}");
-//          List<string> files_in_range = new List<string>();
-//          if (Directory.Exists(token_directory_name)) {
-//             _file_names =
-//          Directory.GetFiles(token_directory_name).Where(f => {
-//             DateTime file_time = PersistorStream.parse_datetime_from_filename(f);
-//             return file_time > _playback_t0 && file_time < _playback_t1;
-//          });
-//          }
-//       }
-
-//       protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber() {
-//          FileStream fs = new FileStream(_snapshot_data.snapshot_file, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
-//          _snapshot_data.packets = StreamPersistorUtils.load_packets_from_file(fs);
-//          PlaybackPacket snapshot_packet = StreamPersistorUtils.find_packet_at_time(_snapshot_data.packets, _snapshot_data.snapshot_time);
-//          if (snapshot_packet != null) {
-//             foreach (PlaybackPacket p in _snapshot_data.packets) {
-//                byte[] ops;
-//                Array row_array;
-//                _deserilializer.deserialize(new Stream[] { new MemoryStream(p.data) }, out ops, out row_array);
-//                for (int i = 0; i < ops.Length; i++) {
-//                   IBlueRowCollection[] rows_args = row_array.GetValue(i) as IBlueRowCollection[];
-//                   byte op = ops[i];
-//                   if (op == StreamOpCode.create) {
-//                      IBlueRowCollection full_table = rows_args[0];
-//                      _current_table = new BlueTable(full_table);
-//                   } else if (op == StreamOpCode.multipleRemoveAdd) {
-//                      //IBlueRowCollection[] del_added = rows_args.GetValue(0) as IBlueRowCollection[];
-//                      IBlueRowCollection dels = rows_args.GetValue(0) as IBlueRowCollection;
-//                      IBlueRowCollection adds = rows_args.GetValue(1) as IBlueRowCollection;
-//                      BlueDataUtility.absorbChanges(_current_table, dels, adds);
-//                   } else {
-//                      bts.Log.assert(false, $"Oprator: {op} is not expected");
-//                   }
-//                   if (p.idx == snapshot_packet.idx) {
-//                      myFireEvent(new DataPacket(_current_table, _current_table, new BlueTable(_current_table.schema)));
-//                      break;
-//                   }
-//                }
-//             }
-//          }
-//       }
-
-
-//       private void _load_packets_from_current_file() {
-//          int curr_idx = _current_fs.Item1;
-//          FileStream curr_fs = _current_fs.Item2;
-//          _packets = new List<PlaybackPacket>();
-//          _packets.AddRange(StreamPersistorUtils.load_packets_from_file(curr_fs));
-//       }
-
-//       private bool current_file_all_replayed {
-//          get {
-//             bool rv = true;
-//             _packets.ForEach(p => rv = rv && p.replayed);
-//             return rv;
-//          }
-//       }
-
-//       protected override void myOnLastSubscriber() {
-//          var fs = _current_fs.Item2;
-//          if (fs != null) {
-//             fs.Close();
-//          }
-//          ViewStreamDatabase.instance.removeWorker(this);
-//       }
-
-//       // public event PlaybackStreamProgress onProgress;
-//       // public event Action onFileExhausted;
-//       private PlaybackPacket _locate_packet_to_replay() {
-//          foreach (var p in _packets) {
-//             // returns the first non replayed packet
-//             if (!p.replayed)
-//                return p;
-//          }
-//          //else
-//          {
-//             double secondsElapsed = new BinaryReader(myFileReader).ReadDouble();
-//             myNextPacketTime = myPlaybackStart + new TimeSpan(0, 0, 0, 0, (int)(1000 * secondsElapsed / myPlaybackSpeed));
-//             if (onProgress != null)
-//                onProgress(myFileReader.Position, myFileReader.Length);
-//          }
-//       }
-
-//       #region IWorker Members
-
-//       public void doWork() {
-//          if (_all_files_read)
-//             return;
-//          if (current_file_all_replayed) {
-//             _load_next_file();
-//          }
-//          PlaybackPacket curr_packet = _locate_packet_to_replay();
-//          if (curr_packet.idx == 0) { // first packet in the file, fire it rightaway 
-//             byte[] ops;
-//             Array row_array;
-//             // what a stupid interface!
-//             _deserilializer.deserialize(new Stream[] { new MemoryStream(curr_packet.data) }, out ops, out row_array);
-//             _fire_packet(ops, row_array);
-//             curr_packet.replay_timestamp = PersistorStream.epoch_now();
-//          } else {
-//             PlaybackPacket prev_packet = _get_previous_packet(curr_packet);
-//             // this is the time we need to fire (replay) this packet
-//             long time_to_fire = prev_packet.replay_timestamp + curr_packet.offset_from_previous;
-//             long now_epoch = PersistorStream.epoch_now();
-//             // fire when we are past the 
-//             if (now_epoch >= time_to_fire) {
-//                byte[] ops;
-//                Array row_array;
-//                _deserilializer.deserialize(new Stream[] { new MemoryStream(curr_packet.data) }, out ops, out row_array);
-//                _fire_packet(ops, row_array);
-//                curr_packet.replay_timestamp = PersistorStream.epoch_now();
-//             }
-//          }
-//       }
-
-//       private void _fire_packet(byte[] ops, Array row_array) {
-//          for (int i = 0; i < ops.Length; i++) {
-//             IBlueRowCollection[] rows_args = row_array.GetValue(i) as IBlueRowCollection[];
-//             byte op = ops[i];
-//             if (op == StreamOpCode.create) {
-//                IBlueRowCollection full_table = rows_args[0];
-//                _current_table = new BlueTable(full_table);
-//                //_current_table.addRows(full_table);
-//                myFireEvent(new DataPacket(full_table, full_table, myLastValue == null ? new BlueTable(full_table.schema) :
-//                                           (myLastValue as DataPacket).newRows));
-//             } else if (op == StreamOpCode.multipleRemoveAdd) {
-//                //IBlueRowCollection[] del_added = rows_args.GetValue(0) as IBlueRowCollection[];
-//                IBlueRowCollection dels = rows_args.GetValue(0) as IBlueRowCollection;
-//                IBlueRowCollection adds = rows_args.GetValue(1) as IBlueRowCollection;
-//                BlueDataUtility.absorbChanges(_current_table, dels, adds);
-//                myFireEvent(new DataPacket(_current_table, adds, dels));
-//             } else {
-//                bts.Log.assert(false, $"Oprator: {op} is not expected");
-//             }
-
-//          }
-//       }
-
-//       private void _load_next_file() {
-//          var new_idx = _current_fs.Item1 + 1;
-//          if (new_idx >= _file_names.Count()) {
-//             _all_files_read = true;
-//             bts.Log.Gen.info("All files read");
-//             return;
-//          }
-//          var prev_fs = _current_fs.Item2;
-//          if (prev_fs != null)
-//             prev_fs.Close();
-//          var new_filename = _file_names.ElementAt(new_idx);
-//          bts.Log.Gen.info("PlaybackStream_load_next_file new_filename=: {new_filename}");
-//          var new_fs = new FileStream(new_filename, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
-//          _current_fs = new Tuple<int, FileStream>(new_idx, new_fs);
-//          _load_packets_from_current_file();
-//       }
-
-//       #endregion
-//    }
-// }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/FileStreams/RecorderStream.cs

@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
-using System;
-using System.Collections.Generic;
-using System.Linq;
-using System.Text;
-using System.IO;
-
-namespace BCG
-{
-   public class RecorderStream : ViewStream
-   {
-      private ViewStream mySource;
-      private DateTime myStartTime;
-      private FileStream myOutFile;
-      private string myFileName;
-      private IBlueDataSerializer mySerializer;
-            
-      public RecorderStream(ViewStream src, string recordFile)
-      {
-         mySource = src;
-         myFileName = recordFile;
-
-         myFileName = myFileName.Replace("%DATE%", DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMdd_HHmmss")); 
-      }
-
-      protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber()
-      {
-         myStartTime = DateTime.Now;         
-         mySource.onChange += new ChangeDelegate(mySource_onChange);
-         myOutFile = new FileStream(myFileName, FileMode.OpenOrCreate);
-      }
-      
-      protected override void myOnLastSubscriber()
-      {
-         mySource.onChange -= mySource_onChange;
-         myOutFile.Close();
-      }
-
-      void mySource_onChange(object newValue)
-      {
-         DataPacket dp = (DataPacket)newValue;         
-         
-         BlueTable toWrite = new BlueTable(dp.schema);
-
-         if (mySerializer == null)
-         {
-            mySerializer = new UniversalSerializer(dp.schema);
-         }
-         foreach (IBlueRow r in dp.newRows)
-            toWrite.addRow(r);
-         
-         byte[] result;
-
-         if (myLastValue == null)
-            mySerializer.serialize(StreamOpCode.create, new IBlueRowCollection[] { dp.newRows }, out result);
-         else
-            mySerializer.serialize(StreamOpCode.multipleRemoveAdd, new IBlueRowCollection[] { dp.deletedRows, dp.addedRows }, out result);
-
-         BinaryWriter bw = new BinaryWriter(myOutFile);
-         //write down what time this happened
-         bw.Write((DateTime.Now - myStartTime).TotalSeconds);
-         bw.Write(result.Length);
-         bw.Write(result);         
-         myOutFile.Flush();
-
-         myFireEvent(dp);
-      }
-   }
-}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/FileStreams/SaverStream.cs

@@ -1,64 +1,37 @@
-// using System;
-// using System.Collections.Generic;
-// using System.Text;
-// using System.IO;
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Text;
+using System.IO;
+using BCG;
 
-// using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
+namespace bts {
+   // this saves the updates as a Create on the same file, each update calls -save, which
+   // reqrites the whole data to the packet. The other side of this stream is the Loader
+   [DataStreamUserRespresentation("saver")]
+   public class SaverStream : ViewStream {
+      private ViewStream _stream;
+      private string _filename;
+      private IStreamIOMsgSerializer _serializer = new StreamIOSerializationController();
 
-// namespace BCG
-// {
-//    [DataStreamUserRespresentation("saver")]
-//    public class SaverStream : ViewStream, ISideEffectStream
-//    {
-//       private ViewStream myStream;
-//       private string myFileName;
+      public SaverStream(ViewStream vs, string filename) {
+         _stream = vs;
+         _filename = filename;
+      }
 
-//       public class Exception : System.Exception
-//       {
-//          public Exception(string msg) : base(msg) { }
-//       }
+      protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber() { _stream.onChange += new ChangeDelegate(_handle_changes); }
 
-//       public SaverStream(ViewStream vs, string fileName)
-//       {
-//          if (fileName == null)
-//             throw new SaverStream.Exception("File name cannot be null");
-//          myStream = vs;
-//          myFileName = fileName;
+      void _handle_changes(object dp_obj) {
+         DataPacket dp = dp_obj as DataPacket;
+         _save(dp);
+         myFireEvent(dp_obj);
+      }
 
-//       }
+      protected override void myOnLastSubscriber() { _stream.onChange -= new ChangeDelegate(_handle_changes); }
 
-//       protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber()
-//       { myStream.onChange += new ChangeDelegate(myHandleChanges); }
-
-//       void myHandleChanges(object newValue)
-//       {
-//          DataPacket dp = newValue as DataPacket;
-//          mySave(dp);
-//          myFireEvent(newValue);
-//       }
-
-//       protected override void myOnLastSubscriber()
-//       { myStream.onChange -= new ChangeDelegate(myHandleChanges); }
-
-//       protected void mySave(DataPacket dp)
-//       {
-//          for (int i = 0; i < 5 ; i++)
-//             try
-//             {
-//                using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(myFileName, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write))
-//                {
-//                   BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter();
-//                   BlueTable t = new BlueTable(dp.schema);
-//                   foreach (IBlueRow r in dp.newRows) // to guarantee table is serializable
-//                      t.addRow(new BlueRow(r));
-//                   bf.Serialize(fs, t);
-//                }
-//                break;
-//             }
-//             catch (IOException)
-//             {
-//                System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5);
-//             }
-//       }
-//    }
-// }
+      protected void _save(DataPacket dp) {
+         StreamIOMessage.CreateMessage cr_msg = new StreamIOMessage.CreateMessage(dp.newRows);
+         byte[] str_bytes = _serializer.serialize(new StreamIOMessage(cr_msg));
+         StreamSerializationUtils.write_to_file(str_bytes, _filename);
+      }
+   }
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/FileStreams/SnapshotStream.cs

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-using System;
-using System.Collections.Generic;
-using System.Linq;
-using System.Text;
-using System.IO;
-using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
-using BCG.Utilities.General;
-using bts.collections;
-using System.Reflection.Metadata;
+// using System;
+// using System.Collections.Generic;
+// using System.Linq;
+// using System.Text;
+// using System.IO;
+// using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
+// using BCG.Utilities.General;
+// using bts.collections;
+// using System.Reflection.Metadata;
 
 
 namespace BCG {
@@ -15,115 +15,115 @@ namespace BCG {
          FirstOfDay,
          LastOfDay
       };
-      private BlueTable _current_table;
-      private IClientDeserializer _deserilializer = new ClientUniversalDeserializer();
-      public DateTime _snapshot_time;
-      public string _snapshot_file;
-      public IEnumerable<PlaybackPacket> _packets;
-      public SnapshotStream(string snapshot_date, string specific_snapshot, string directory_name, string token) {
-         DateTime dt;
-         var parsed = DateTime.TryParse(snapshot_date, out dt);
-         dt = dt.Date;
-         bts.Log.assert(parsed);
-         SpecificSnapshot specific_snapshot_enum;
-         parsed = Enum.TryParse<SpecificSnapshot>(specific_snapshot, out specific_snapshot_enum);
-         bts.Log.assert(parsed);
-         string snapshot_dt = StreamPersistorUtils.find_snapshot_file($"{directory_name}\\{token}", dt, specific_snapshot_enum);
-         ViewStream rs = new SnapshotStream(snapshot_dt, directory_name, token);
-         mySetRealSource(rs);
-      }
+//       private BlueTable _current_table;
+//       private IClientDeserializer _deserilializer = new ClientUniversalDeserializer();
+//       public DateTime _snapshot_time;
+//       public string _snapshot_file;
+//       public IEnumerable<PlaybackPacket> _packets;
+//       public SnapshotStream(string snapshot_date, string specific_snapshot, string directory_name, string token) {
+//          DateTime dt;
+//          var parsed = DateTime.TryParse(snapshot_date, out dt);
+//          dt = dt.Date;
+//          bts.Log.assert(parsed);
+//          SpecificSnapshot specific_snapshot_enum;
+//          parsed = Enum.TryParse<SpecificSnapshot>(specific_snapshot, out specific_snapshot_enum);
+//          bts.Log.assert(parsed);
+//          string snapshot_dt = StreamPersistorUtils.find_snapshot_file($"{directory_name}\\{token}", dt, specific_snapshot_enum);
+//          ViewStream rs = new SnapshotStream(snapshot_dt, directory_name, token);
+//          mySetRealSource(rs);
+//       }
 
-      public SnapshotStream(string snapshot_dt, string directory_name, string token) {
-         _snapshot_time = PersistorStream.parse_datetime(snapshot_dt);
-         string token_directory_name = $"{directory_name}\\{token}";
-         _snapshot_file = StreamPersistorUtils.find_snapshot_file(token_directory_name, _snapshot_time);
-      }
+//       public SnapshotStream(string snapshot_dt, string directory_name, string token) {
+//          _snapshot_time = PersistorStream.parse_datetime(snapshot_dt);
+//          string token_directory_name = $"{directory_name}\\{token}";
+//          _snapshot_file = StreamPersistorUtils.find_snapshot_file(token_directory_name, _snapshot_time);
+//       }
 
-      protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber() {
-         FileStream fs = new FileStream(_snapshot_file, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
-         _packets = StreamPersistorUtils.load_packets_from_file(fs);
-         PlaybackPacket snapshot_packet = StreamPersistorUtils.find_packet_at_time(_packets, _snapshot_time);
-         if (snapshot_packet != null) {
-            foreach (PlaybackPacket p in _packets) {
-               byte[] ops;
-               Array row_array;
-               _deserilializer.deserialize(new Stream[] { new MemoryStream(p.data) }, out ops, out row_array);
-               for (int i = 0; i < ops.Length; i++) {
-                  IBlueRowCollection[] rows_args = row_array.GetValue(i) as IBlueRowCollection[];
-                  byte op = ops[i];
-                  if (op == StreamOpCode.create) {
-                     IBlueRowCollection full_table = rows_args[0];
-                     _current_table = new BlueTable(full_table);
-                  } else if (op == StreamOpCode.multipleRemoveAdd) {
-                     //IBlueRowCollection[] del_added = rows_args.GetValue(0) as IBlueRowCollection[];
-                     IBlueRowCollection dels = rows_args.GetValue(0) as IBlueRowCollection;
-                     IBlueRowCollection adds = rows_args.GetValue(1) as IBlueRowCollection;
-                     BlueDataUtility.absorbChanges(_current_table, dels, adds);
-                  } else {
-                     bts.Log.assert(false, $"Oprator: {op} is not expected");
-                  }
-                  if (p.idx == snapshot_packet.idx) {
-                     myFireEvent(new DataPacket(_current_table, _current_table, new BlueTable(_current_table.schema)));
-                     break;
-                  }
-               }
-            }
-         }
-      }
+//       protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber() {
+//          FileStream fs = new FileStream(_snapshot_file, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
+//          _packets = StreamPersistorUtils.load_packets_from_file(fs);
+//          PlaybackPacket snapshot_packet = StreamPersistorUtils.find_packet_at_time(_packets, _snapshot_time);
+//          if (snapshot_packet != null) {
+//             foreach (PlaybackPacket p in _packets) {
+//                byte[] ops;
+//                Array row_array;
+//                _deserilializer.deserialize(new Stream[] { new MemoryStream(p.data) }, out ops, out row_array);
+//                for (int i = 0; i < ops.Length; i++) {
+//                   IBlueRowCollection[] rows_args = row_array.GetValue(i) as IBlueRowCollection[];
+//                   byte op = ops[i];
+//                   if (op == StreamOpCode.create) {
+//                      IBlueRowCollection full_table = rows_args[0];
+//                      _current_table = new BlueTable(full_table);
+//                   } else if (op == StreamOpCode.multipleRemoveAdd) {
+//                      //IBlueRowCollection[] del_added = rows_args.GetValue(0) as IBlueRowCollection[];
+//                      IBlueRowCollection dels = rows_args.GetValue(0) as IBlueRowCollection;
+//                      IBlueRowCollection adds = rows_args.GetValue(1) as IBlueRowCollection;
+//                      BlueDataUtility.absorbChanges(_current_table, dels, adds);
+//                   } else {
+//                      bts.Log.assert(false, $"Oprator: {op} is not expected");
+//                   }
+//                   if (p.idx == snapshot_packet.idx) {
+//                      myFireEvent(new DataPacket(_current_table, _current_table, new BlueTable(_current_table.schema)));
+//                      break;
+//                   }
+//                }
+//             }
+//          }
+//       }
 
-      private void _absorb_packet(byte[] ops, Array row_array) {
-         for (int i = 0; i < ops.Length; i++) {
-            IBlueRowCollection[] rows_args = row_array.GetValue(i) as IBlueRowCollection[];
-            byte op = ops[i];
-            if (op == StreamOpCode.create) {
-               IBlueRowCollection full_table = rows_args[0];
-               _current_table = new BlueTable(full_table);
-            } else if (op == StreamOpCode.multipleRemoveAdd) {
-               //IBlueRowCollection[] del_added = rows_args.GetValue(0) as IBlueRowCollection[];
-               IBlueRowCollection dels = rows_args.GetValue(0) as IBlueRowCollection;
-               IBlueRowCollection adds = rows_args.GetValue(1) as IBlueRowCollection;
-               BlueDataUtility.absorbChanges(_current_table, dels, adds);
-            } else {
-               bts.Log.assert(false, $"Operator: {op} is not expected");
-            }
-         }
-      }
+//       private void _absorb_packet(byte[] ops, Array row_array) {
+//          for (int i = 0; i < ops.Length; i++) {
+//             IBlueRowCollection[] rows_args = row_array.GetValue(i) as IBlueRowCollection[];
+//             byte op = ops[i];
+//             if (op == StreamOpCode.create) {
+//                IBlueRowCollection full_table = rows_args[0];
+//                _current_table = new BlueTable(full_table);
+//             } else if (op == StreamOpCode.multipleRemoveAdd) {
+//                //IBlueRowCollection[] del_added = rows_args.GetValue(0) as IBlueRowCollection[];
+//                IBlueRowCollection dels = rows_args.GetValue(0) as IBlueRowCollection;
+//                IBlueRowCollection adds = rows_args.GetValue(1) as IBlueRowCollection;
+//                BlueDataUtility.absorbChanges(_current_table, dels, adds);
+//             } else {
+//                bts.Log.assert(false, $"Operator: {op} is not expected");
+//             }
+//          }
+//       }
 
-      protected override void myOnLastSubscriber() {
-      }
+//       protected override void myOnLastSubscriber() {
+//       }
 
-      // public event SnapshotStream.Progress onProgress;
-      // public event Action onFileExhausted;
-      private PlaybackPacket _locate_packet_to_replay() {
-         foreach (var p in _packets) {
-            // returns the first non replayed packet
-            if (!p.replayed)
-               return p;
-         }
-         return null;
-      }
+//       // public event SnapshotStream.Progress onProgress;
+//       // public event Action onFileExhausted;
+//       private PlaybackPacket _locate_packet_to_replay() {
+//          foreach (var p in _packets) {
+//             // returns the first non replayed packet
+//             if (!p.replayed)
+//                return p;
+//          }
+//          return null;
+//       }
 
-      private void _fire_packet(byte[] ops, Array row_array) {
-         for (int i = 0; i < ops.Length; i++) {
-            IBlueRowCollection[] rows_args = row_array.GetValue(i) as IBlueRowCollection[];
-            byte op = ops[i];
-            if (op == StreamOpCode.create) {
-               IBlueRowCollection full_table = rows_args[0];
-               _current_table = new BlueTable(full_table);
-               //_current_table.addRows(full_table);
-               myFireEvent(new DataPacket(full_table, full_table, myLastValue == null ? new BlueTable(full_table.schema) :
-                                          (myLastValue as DataPacket).newRows));
-            } else if (op == StreamOpCode.multipleRemoveAdd) {
-               //IBlueRowCollection[] del_added = rows_args.GetValue(0) as IBlueRowCollection[];
-               IBlueRowCollection dels = rows_args.GetValue(0) as IBlueRowCollection;
-               IBlueRowCollection adds = rows_args.GetValue(1) as IBlueRowCollection;
-               BlueDataUtility.absorbChanges(_current_table, dels, adds);
-               myFireEvent(new DataPacket(_current_table, adds, dels));
-            } else {
-               bts.Log.assert(false, $"Oprator: {op} is not expected");
-            }
+//       private void _fire_packet(byte[] ops, Array row_array) {
+//          for (int i = 0; i < ops.Length; i++) {
+//             IBlueRowCollection[] rows_args = row_array.GetValue(i) as IBlueRowCollection[];
+//             byte op = ops[i];
+//             if (op == StreamOpCode.create) {
+//                IBlueRowCollection full_table = rows_args[0];
+//                _current_table = new BlueTable(full_table);
+//                //_current_table.addRows(full_table);
+//                myFireEvent(new DataPacket(full_table, full_table, myLastValue == null ? new BlueTable(full_table.schema) :
+//                                           (myLastValue as DataPacket).newRows));
+//             } else if (op == StreamOpCode.multipleRemoveAdd) {
+//                //IBlueRowCollection[] del_added = rows_args.GetValue(0) as IBlueRowCollection[];
+//                IBlueRowCollection dels = rows_args.GetValue(0) as IBlueRowCollection;
+//                IBlueRowCollection adds = rows_args.GetValue(1) as IBlueRowCollection;
+//                BlueDataUtility.absorbChanges(_current_table, dels, adds);
+//                myFireEvent(new DataPacket(_current_table, adds, dels));
+//             } else {
+//                bts.Log.assert(false, $"Oprator: {op} is not expected");
+//             }
 
-         }
-      }
+//          }
+//       }
    }
-}
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/FileStreams/StreamPersistorUtils.cs

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Globalization;
 using System.IO;
+using bts;
 
 
 namespace BCG {

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/Filter/FilterStream.cs

@@ -1,16 +1,10 @@
-using BCG;
-using System;
-using System.Data;
-using System.Collections;
-using BCG.Utilities;
-using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
-
 using Bts.DataStream;
 
-using mbts;
-using mbts.spark;
 using mbts.config;
 
+using System;
+using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
+
 namespace BCG.StreamWorld.Addition
 {
    [DataStreamUserRespresentation (false)]
@@ -151,7 +145,6 @@ namespace BCG
       private string myFilterString;
       private BCG.StreamWorld.Addition.FilterStream myFilterStream;
       private bool myUseNewFilter = Configuration.get<DataStreamConfig>().UseNewFilter;
-      private HighPerformanceTimer _timer = new HighPerformanceTimer();
 
       #region constructors
       public delegate bool OnFilter(IBlueRow r);
@@ -226,7 +219,6 @@ namespace BCG
 
       private void myHandleCallbacks(object newValue)
       {
-         _timer.start();
          DataPacket retVal;
          DataPacket arrivedPacket = newValue as DataPacket;
          myLastReceivedRows = arrivedPacket.newRows;
@@ -255,7 +247,6 @@ namespace BCG
                if (myFilter.filter(r))
                   myLastFiredRows.addRow(r);
          }
-         _timer.stop();
          myFireEvent(retVal);
       }
 

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/Filter/TimeBasedFilter.cs

@@ -1,37 +1,66 @@
 using System;
-using System.Collections.Generic;
-using System.Linq;
-using System.Text;
+using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
 
 using BCG.Utilities.General;
 
-namespace BCG
-{
-   public class TimeBasedFilter : IDynamicStreamFilter, IWorker, IDisposable
-   {
+namespace BCG {
+   public class TimeBasedFilter : IDynamicStreamFilter, IWorker, IDisposable {
+
+      public static TimeSpan parse_duration(string input) {
+         int days = 0, hours = 0, minutes = 0, seconds = 0;
+
+         // Regular expression to match the pattern (e.g., "1d", "1h", "15m", "45s")
+         Regex regex = new Regex(@"(\d+)([dhms])");
+         MatchCollection matches = regex.Matches(input);
+
+         foreach (Match match in matches) {
+            int value = int.Parse(match.Groups[1].Value);
+            string unit = match.Groups[2].Value;
+
+            switch (unit) {
+               case "d":
+                  days = value;
+                  break;
+               case "h":
+                  hours = value;
+                  break;
+               case "m":
+                  minutes = value;
+                  break;
+               case "s":
+                  seconds = value;
+                  break;
+            }
+         }
+
+         return new TimeSpan(days, hours, minutes, seconds);
+      }
+
       #region constructors
+
+      public TimeBasedFilter(string col_name, string row_time_to_live)
+      : this(col_name, parse_duration(row_time_to_live)) {
+
+      }
+
       public TimeBasedFilter(string rowTimeColumnName, TimeSpan rowTimeToLive)
-         : this (ViewStreamDatabase.instance, rowTimeColumnName, rowTimeToLive, new TimeSpan(0, 1, 0) /* 1 minute */)
-      {
+      : this(ViewStreamDatabase.instance, rowTimeColumnName, rowTimeToLive, new TimeSpan(0, 1, 0) /* 1 minute */) {
       }
 
       public TimeBasedFilter(string rowTimeColumnName, TimeSpan rowTimeToLive, TimeSpan filterFrequency)
-         : this (ViewStreamDatabase.instance, rowTimeColumnName, rowTimeToLive, filterFrequency)
-      {
+      : this(ViewStreamDatabase.instance, rowTimeColumnName, rowTimeToLive, filterFrequency) {
       }
 
       public TimeBasedFilter(ViewStreamDatabase vsd, string rowTimeColumnName, TimeSpan rowTimeToLive)
-         : this (vsd, rowTimeColumnName, rowTimeToLive, new TimeSpan(0, 1, 0) /* 1 minute */)
-      {
+      : this(vsd, rowTimeColumnName, rowTimeToLive, new TimeSpan(0, 1, 0) /* 1 minute */) {
       }
 
-      public TimeBasedFilter(ViewStreamDatabase vsd, string rowTimeColumnName, TimeSpan rowTimeToLive, TimeSpan filterFrequency)
-      {
-         myVsd               = vsd;
-         myRowTimeColumnName = rowTimeColumnName;
-         myRowTimeToLive     = rowTimeToLive;
-         myFilterFrequency   = filterFrequency;
-         myNextFilter        = DateTime.MinValue;
+      public TimeBasedFilter(ViewStreamDatabase vsd, string rowTimeColumnName, TimeSpan rowTimeToLive, TimeSpan filterFrequency) {
+         myVsd = vsd;
+         _time_col = rowTimeColumnName;
+         _ttl = rowTimeToLive;
+         myFilterFrequency = filterFrequency;
+         myNextFilter = DateTime.MinValue;
 
          // add worker
          myVsd.addWorker(this);
@@ -41,32 +70,25 @@ namespace BCG
       public event FilterChangeDelegate onFilterChange;
 
       #region IStreamFilter
-      public bool filter(IBlueRow row)
-      {
-         DateTime now       = DateTime.Now;
-         DateTime timeStamp = (DateTime)row[myRowTimeColumnName];
+      public bool filter(IBlueRow row) {
+         DateTime now = DateTime.Now;
 
-         if (now > timeStamp)
-         {
-            TimeSpan span = now - timeStamp;
-
-            if (span >= myRowTimeToLive)
-            {
+         DateTime row_time = row.get_datetime(_time_col, DateTime.Now);
+         if (now > row_time) {
+            TimeSpan span = now - row_time;
+            if (span >= _ttl) {
                return (false);
             }
          }
-
          return (true);
       }
       #endregion
 
       #region IWorker
-      public void doWork()
-      {
+      public void doWork() {
          DateTime now = DateTime.Now;
 
-         if (now > myNextFilter)
-         {
+         if (now > myNextFilter) {
             // fire event
             onFilterChange();
 
@@ -76,8 +98,7 @@ namespace BCG
       #endregion
 
       #region IDisposable
-      public void Dispose()
-      {
+      public void Dispose() {
          // remove worker
          myVsd.removeWorker(this);
       }
@@ -85,10 +106,20 @@ namespace BCG
 
       #region state
       private ViewStreamDatabase myVsd;
-      private string             myRowTimeColumnName;
-      private TimeSpan           myRowTimeToLive;
-      private TimeSpan           myFilterFrequency;
-      private DateTime           myNextFilter;
+      private string _time_col;
+      private TimeSpan _ttl;
+      private TimeSpan myFilterFrequency;
+      private DateTime myNextFilter;
       #endregion
    }
+   [DataStreamUserRespresentation("timefilter")]
+   public class TimeBasedFilterStream : ViewStream {
+      public TimeBasedFilterStream(ViewStream base_stream, string time_col, string time_span)
+      :
+      this(ViewStreamDatabase.instance, base_stream, time_col, TimeBasedFilter.parse_duration(time_span)) { }
+      public TimeBasedFilterStream(ViewStreamDatabase vsd, ViewStream base_stream, string time_col, TimeSpan time_span) {
+         TimeBasedFilter filter = new TimeBasedFilter(vsd, time_col, time_span);
+         mySetRealSource(new FilterStream(base_stream, filter));
+      }
+   }
 }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/GroupBy/GroupByStream.cs

@@ -4,18 +4,14 @@ using BCG.Utilities;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Linq;
 
-namespace BCG
-{
-   public class GroupByStream : MethodDrivenStream
-   {
-      private class MyFuncGroupByEvaluator : IGroupByEvaluator
-      {
+namespace BCG {
+   public class GroupByStream : MethodDrivenStream {
+      private class MyFuncGroupByEvaluator : IGroupByEvaluator {
          private string[] _groupby_cols;
          private Func<DataPacket, IBlueRow> _groupby_func;
-         public MyFuncGroupByEvaluator(IEnumerable<string> groupby_cols, Func<DataPacket, IBlueRow> groupby_func)
-         {
+         public MyFuncGroupByEvaluator(IEnumerable<string> groupby_cols, Func<DataPacket, IBlueRow> groupby_func) {
             _groupby_cols = groupby_cols.ToArray();
-            _groupby_func = groupby_func;            
+            _groupby_func = groupby_func;
          }
          public IBlueRow evaluate(DataPacket packet) { return _groupby_func(packet); }
 
@@ -29,7 +25,7 @@ namespace BCG
       /// Serves as  a quick way to access all rows belonging to the same group
       /// </summary>
       private bool myIdGuard = true;
-      private RowDictionaryTable myBookKeepingTable ;
+      private RowDictionaryTable myBookKeepingTable;
       private IGroupByEvaluator myGroupByEvaluator;
       private IBlueTableSchema mySchema; //input schema, as output schema can differ (IGroupByEvaluator's
       //can map a schema to another
@@ -37,112 +33,98 @@ namespace BCG
       private int myIdGenerator = 0;
 
       public GroupByStream(ViewStream stream, IEnumerable<string> groupby_cols, Func<DataPacket, IBlueRow> groupby_func)
-         : this(stream, new MyFuncGroupByEvaluator(groupby_cols, groupby_func))
-      { }
+         : this(stream, new MyFuncGroupByEvaluator(groupby_cols, groupby_func)) { }
 
-      public GroupByStream (ViewStream stream, IGroupByEvaluator groupByEvaluator)
-         : this (stream, groupByEvaluator, true)
-      {}
+      public GroupByStream(ViewStream stream, IGroupByEvaluator groupByEvaluator)
+         : this(stream, groupByEvaluator, true) { }
 
-      public GroupByStream (ViewStream stream, IGroupByEvaluator groupbyEvaluator, bool idGuard)
-         : base (stream)
-      {
+      public GroupByStream(ViewStream stream, IGroupByEvaluator groupbyEvaluator, bool idGuard)
+         : base(stream) {
          myGroupByEvaluator = groupbyEvaluator;
          myIdGuard = idGuard;
       }
 
-      protected override void myHandleFirstCall ()
-      {
+      protected override void myHandleFirstCall() {
          mySchema = myLastArrivedPacket.schema;
-         myOutputSchema = myGroupByEvaluator.getOutputSchema (mySchema);
-         myBookKeepingTable = new RowDictionaryTable (myLastArrivedPacket.newRows, 
+         myOutputSchema = myGroupByEvaluator.getOutputSchema(mySchema);
+         myBookKeepingTable = new RowDictionaryTable(myLastArrivedPacket.newRows,
             myGroupByEvaluator.groupByColumns);
-         GroupByOutputTable temp = new GroupByOutputTable (myOutputSchema);
-         foreach (IBlueRowCollection rowGroup in myBookKeepingTable.getGroups())
-         {
-            IBlueRow newRow = myEvaluate (new DataPacket (rowGroup,
-               rowGroup, new BlueTable (mySchema)));
+         GroupByOutputTable temp = new GroupByOutputTable(myOutputSchema);
+         foreach (IBlueRowCollection rowGroup in myBookKeepingTable.getGroups()) {
+            IBlueRow newRow = myEvaluate(new DataPacket(rowGroup,
+               rowGroup, new BlueTable(mySchema)));
             if (newRow != null)
-               temp.addRow (newRow, myGetGroupString (rowGroup));
+               temp.addRow(newRow, myGetGroupString(rowGroup));
          }
-         myLastFiredPacket = new DataPacket (temp, new BlueTable(temp), new BlueTable (temp.schema));
+         myLastFiredPacket = new DataPacket(temp, new BlueTable(temp), new BlueTable(temp.schema));
       }
 
       /// <summary>
       /// Adding need not to anything as deletion already takes care
       /// of addition
       /// </summary>
-      protected override void myHandleIncrementalAdd()   {}
-      
+      protected override void myHandleIncrementalAdd() { }
+
       /// <summary>
       /// Both deletes and adds are handled here to make the intermediate results not
       /// appear in the spitted fired DataPacket (note this is done only in GroupByStream 
       /// because of the nature of it)
       /// </summary>
-      protected override void myHandleIncrementalDelete()   
-      {
+      protected override void myHandleIncrementalDelete() {
          myFireSwitch = false;
          RowDictionaryTable delGroups, addGroups;
          //form groups for deleted and added rows
-         myInitIncrementalChangeData (out delGroups, out addGroups);
-         ArrayList handledAddGroups = new ArrayList ();
+         myInitIncrementalChangeData(out delGroups, out addGroups);
+         ArrayList handledAddGroups = new ArrayList();
          string groupRepString;
 
-         foreach (IBlueRowCollection delGroup in delGroups.getGroups ())
-         {
+         foreach (IBlueRowCollection delGroup in delGroups.getGroups()) {
             // BlueEventLog.logAssert (delGroup.Count > 0);
-            groupRepString = myGetGroupString (delGroup);
-            IBlueRowCollection addGroup = addGroups.getGroup (groupRepString) == null ?
-               new BlueTable (mySchema) : addGroups.getGroup (groupRepString);
-            handledAddGroups.Add (addGroup);
-            IBlueRowCollection aggGroup = myBookKeepingTable.getGroup (groupRepString) == null ?
-               new BlueTable (mySchema) : myBookKeepingTable.getGroup (groupRepString);
-            IBlueRow newRow = myEvaluate (new DataPacket (aggGroup, addGroup, delGroup));
-            myFireSwitch |= myMergeRow (newRow, groupRepString);           
+            groupRepString = myGetGroupString(delGroup);
+            IBlueRowCollection addGroup = addGroups.getGroup(groupRepString) == null ?
+               new BlueTable(mySchema) : addGroups.getGroup(groupRepString);
+            handledAddGroups.Add(addGroup);
+            IBlueRowCollection aggGroup = myBookKeepingTable.getGroup(groupRepString) == null ?
+               new BlueTable(mySchema) : myBookKeepingTable.getGroup(groupRepString);
+            IBlueRow newRow = myEvaluate(new DataPacket(aggGroup, addGroup, delGroup));
+            myFireSwitch |= myMergeRow(newRow, groupRepString);
          }
 
-         foreach (IBlueRowCollection addGroup in addGroups.getGroups ())
-         {
+         foreach (IBlueRowCollection addGroup in addGroups.getGroups()) {
             // BlueEventLog.logAssert (addGroup.Count > 0);
-            if (!handledAddGroups.Contains (addGroup))
-            {
+            if (!handledAddGroups.Contains(addGroup)) {
                //this is the case when there are rows added to a group and none
                //have been removed, hence it 'escapes' from being dealt with in 
                //the loop above
 
-               groupRepString = myGetGroupString (addGroup);
-               IBlueRowCollection aggGroup = myBookKeepingTable.getGroup (groupRepString);
+               groupRepString = myGetGroupString(addGroup);
+               IBlueRowCollection aggGroup = myBookKeepingTable.getGroup(groupRepString);
                // BlueEventLog.logAssert (aggGroup != null && aggGroup.Count > 0);
-               IBlueRow newRow = myEvaluate (new DataPacket (aggGroup, addGroup, 
-                  new BlueTable (aggGroup.schema)));
-               myFireSwitch |= myMergeRow (newRow, groupRepString);
+               IBlueRow newRow = myEvaluate(new DataPacket(aggGroup, addGroup,
+                  new BlueTable(aggGroup.schema)));
+               myFireSwitch |= myMergeRow(newRow, groupRepString);
             }
          }
       }
 
-      private bool myMergeRow (IBlueRow newRow, string groupRepString)
-      {
-         IBlueRow existingRow = ((GroupByOutputTable) myLastFiredPacket.newRows).getRow (groupRepString);
+      private bool myMergeRow(IBlueRow newRow, string groupRepString) {
+         IBlueRow existingRow = ((GroupByOutputTable)myLastFiredPacket.newRows).getRow(groupRepString);
          //BlueEventLog.logAssert (newRow != null || existingRow != null);
          if (existingRow == null && newRow == null)
             return false;
-         else if (existingRow != null && newRow != null && BlueDataUtility.computeRowEquality (existingRow, newRow))
+         else if (existingRow != null && newRow != null && BlueDataUtility.compute_equality(existingRow, newRow))
             return false;
-         else if (existingRow == null)
-         {
+         else if (existingRow == null) {
             //row added for the first time
-            ((GroupByOutputTable) myLastFiredPacket.newRows).addRow (newRow, groupRepString);
-            ((BlueTable) myLastFiredPacket.addedRows).addRow (newRow);
+            ((GroupByOutputTable)myLastFiredPacket.newRows).addRow(newRow, groupRepString);
+            ((BlueTable)myLastFiredPacket.addedRows).addRow(newRow);
             return true;
-         }
-         else
-         {
-            ((GroupByOutputTable) myLastFiredPacket.newRows).removeRow (groupRepString);
-            ((BlueTable) myLastFiredPacket.deletedRows).addRow (existingRow);
-            if (newRow != null)
-            {
-               ((GroupByOutputTable) myLastFiredPacket.newRows).addRow (newRow, groupRepString);
-               ((BlueTable) myLastFiredPacket.addedRows).addRow (newRow);
+         } else {
+            ((GroupByOutputTable)myLastFiredPacket.newRows).removeRow(groupRepString);
+            ((BlueTable)myLastFiredPacket.deletedRows).addRow(existingRow);
+            if (newRow != null) {
+               ((GroupByOutputTable)myLastFiredPacket.newRows).addRow(newRow, groupRepString);
+               ((BlueTable)myLastFiredPacket.addedRows).addRow(newRow);
             }
             return true;
          }
@@ -154,77 +136,68 @@ namespace BCG
       /// </summary>
       /// <param name="delGroups"></param>
       /// <param name="addGroups"></param>
-      private void myInitIncrementalChangeData (out RowDictionaryTable delGroups, out RowDictionaryTable addGroups)
-      {
+      private void myInitIncrementalChangeData(out RowDictionaryTable delGroups, out RowDictionaryTable addGroups) {
          delGroups =
-            new RowDictionaryTable (myLastArrivedPacket.deletedRows, myGroupByEvaluator.groupByColumns);
+            new RowDictionaryTable(myLastArrivedPacket.deletedRows, myGroupByEvaluator.groupByColumns);
          addGroups =
-            new RowDictionaryTable (myLastArrivedPacket.addedRows, myGroupByEvaluator.groupByColumns);
+            new RowDictionaryTable(myLastArrivedPacket.addedRows, myGroupByEvaluator.groupByColumns);
          foreach (IBlueRow deletedRow in myLastArrivedPacket.deletedRows)
-            myBookKeepingTable.removeRow (deletedRow);
+            myBookKeepingTable.removeRow(deletedRow);
          foreach (IBlueRow addedRow in myLastArrivedPacket.addedRows)
-            myBookKeepingTable.addRow (addedRow);
-         myLastFiredPacket.addedRows = new BlueTable (myOutputSchema);
-         myLastFiredPacket.deletedRows = new BlueTable (myOutputSchema);
+            myBookKeepingTable.addRow(addedRow);
+         myLastFiredPacket.addedRows = new BlueTable(myOutputSchema);
+         myLastFiredPacket.deletedRows = new BlueTable(myOutputSchema);
       }
 
-      protected override void myOnTableClear ()
-      {
+      protected override void myOnTableClear() {
          if (myBookKeepingTable.Count == 0)
             return;  //ie there arent any rows, so no need to optimize the 'cleansing' process
-         myLastFiredPacket.deletedRows = new BlueTable (myLastFiredPacket.newRows);
-         myLastFiredPacket.addedRows = new BlueTable (myLastFiredPacket.deletedRows.schema);
-         (myLastFiredPacket.newRows as GroupByOutputTable).clear ();
-         myBookKeepingTable.clear ();
-         myGroupByEvaluator.clear ();
+         myLastFiredPacket.deletedRows = new BlueTable(myLastFiredPacket.newRows);
+         myLastFiredPacket.addedRows = new BlueTable(myLastFiredPacket.deletedRows.schema);
+         (myLastFiredPacket.newRows as GroupByOutputTable).clear();
+         myBookKeepingTable.clear();
+         myGroupByEvaluator.clear();
       }
 
-      private IBlueRow myEvaluate (DataPacket dp)
-      {
-         IBlueRow evalRow = myGroupByEvaluator.evaluate (dp);
-         return evalRow == null ? null : 
+      private IBlueRow myEvaluate(DataPacket dp) {
+         IBlueRow evalRow = myGroupByEvaluator.evaluate(dp);
+         return evalRow == null ? null :
             myIdGuard ?
-            BlueDataUtility.getNewReplacedRow (evalRow, myIdGenerator++, "id") : evalRow;
+            BlueDataUtility.getNewReplacedRow(evalRow, myIdGenerator++, "id") : evalRow;
       }
 
-      private string myGetGroupString (IBlueRowCollection group)
-      {
-         return BlueDataUtility.rowToString(BlueDataUtility.extractRow (group, 0), myGroupByEvaluator.groupByColumns);
+      private string myGetGroupString(IBlueRowCollection group) {
+         return BlueDataUtility.rowToString(BlueDataUtility.extractRow(group, 0), myGroupByEvaluator.groupByColumns);
       }
 
-      protected override  void myOnLastSubscriber () 
-      {
+      protected override void myOnLastSubscriber() {
          //the packets are initialzed to null, so that if the subscription count goes to 0, and then this stream 
          //gets resubscribed, we start the process of building data again, and treat the callback as the first 
          //callback.
-         myInit ();
-         myStream.onChange -= new DataStream.ChangeDelegate (myChangeHandler);
+         myInit();
+         myStream.onChange -= new DataStream.ChangeDelegate(myChangeHandler);
       }
 
-      protected override void myInit ()
-      {
-         base.myInit ();
-         if (myBookKeepingTable != null)
-         {
+      protected override void myInit() {
+         base.myInit();
+         if (myBookKeepingTable != null) {
             //to avoid calling init before the first callback
-            myBookKeepingTable.clear ();
-            myGroupByEvaluator.clear ();
+            myBookKeepingTable.clear();
+            myGroupByEvaluator.clear();
          }
       }
 
-      public static string getRepString (DataPacket dp, string[] colNames)
-      {
-         return BlueDataUtility.rowToString (getRepRow (dp), colNames);
+      public static string getRepString(DataPacket dp, string[] colNames) {
+         return BlueDataUtility.rowToString(getRepRow(dp), colNames);
       }
 
-      public static IBlueRow getRepRow (DataPacket dp)
-      {
+      public static IBlueRow getRepRow(DataPacket dp) {
          if (dp.newRows.Count > 0)
-            return BlueDataUtility.extractRow (dp.newRows, 0);
+            return BlueDataUtility.extractRow(dp.newRows, 0);
          else if (dp.addedRows.Count > 0)
-            return BlueDataUtility.extractRow (dp.addedRows, 0);
+            return BlueDataUtility.extractRow(dp.addedRows, 0);
          else if (dp.deletedRows.Count > 0)
-            return BlueDataUtility.extractRow (dp.deletedRows, 0);
+            return BlueDataUtility.extractRow(dp.deletedRows, 0);
          // BlueEventLog.logAssert (false, "Illegal Data Packet");
          return null;
       }
@@ -237,22 +210,21 @@ namespace BCG
       /// <param name="newValue"></param>
       /// <param name="isAdd"></param>
       /// <returns></returns>
-      public static object incrementalAdd (object lastValue, object newValue, bool isAdd)
-      {
-         if (lastValue == null || lastValue.Equals (DBNull.Value))
+      public static object incrementalAdd(object lastValue, object newValue, bool isAdd) {
+         if (lastValue == null || lastValue.Equals(DBNull.Value))
             return newValue;
          // BlueEventLog.logAssert (lastValue.GetType().Equals (typeof(Int32)) && newValue.GetType().Equals (typeof(Int32)) ||
-            // lastValue.GetType().Equals (typeof(Double)) && newValue.GetType().Equals (typeof(Double)) ||
-            // lastValue.GetType().Equals (typeof(Decimal)) && newValue.GetType().Equals (typeof(Decimal)));
+         // lastValue.GetType().Equals (typeof(Double)) && newValue.GetType().Equals (typeof(Double)) ||
+         // lastValue.GetType().Equals (typeof(Decimal)) && newValue.GetType().Equals (typeof(Decimal)));
          Object retVal = null;
-         if (newValue.GetType().Equals (typeof(int)))
+         if (newValue.GetType().Equals(typeof(int)))
             retVal = isAdd ? (int)lastValue + (int)newValue : (int)lastValue - (int)newValue;
-         else if (newValue.GetType().Equals (typeof(Double)))
+         else if (newValue.GetType().Equals(typeof(Double)))
             retVal = isAdd ? (Double)lastValue + (Double)newValue : (Double)lastValue - (Double)newValue;
-         else if (lastValue.GetType().Equals (typeof(Decimal)))
+         else if (lastValue.GetType().Equals(typeof(Decimal)))
             retVal = isAdd ? (Decimal)lastValue + (Decimal)newValue : (Decimal)lastValue - (Decimal)newValue;
-         else{}
-            // BlueEventLog.logAssert (false, "Illegal type");
+         else { }
+         // BlueEventLog.logAssert (false, "Illegal type");
          return retVal;
       }
 

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/GroupBy/MaxGroupByEvaluator.cs

@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ namespace BCG {
             IBlueRow maxRow = BlueDataUtility.computeMaxRow(dp.deletedRows, myOutputColumn);
             if (maxRow != null) {
                 bts.Log.assert(currMaxRow != null);
-                bts.Log.assert(BlueDataUtility.compareRows(maxRow, currMaxRow, myOutputColumn) <= 0);
-                if (BlueDataUtility.compareRows(maxRow, currMaxRow, myOutputColumn) == 0) {
+                bts.Log.assert(BlueDataUtility.compare_rows(maxRow, currMaxRow, myOutputColumn) <= 0);
+                if (BlueDataUtility.compare_rows(maxRow, currMaxRow, myOutputColumn) == 0) {
                     maxRow = BlueDataUtility.computeMaxRow(dp.newRows, myOutputColumn);
                     if (maxRow == null)
                         myOutputTable.removeRow(hashString);
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ namespace BCG {
             maxRow = BlueDataUtility.computeMaxRow(dp.addedRows, myOutputColumn);
             // if the row was replaced in the above lines, then currMaxRow < maxRow, so the if below would never return a true,
             // otherwise if maxRow > currMaxRow then its replaced
-            if (maxRow != null && (currMaxRow == null || BlueDataUtility.compareRows(maxRow, currMaxRow, myOutputColumn) > 0))
+            if (maxRow != null && (currMaxRow == null || BlueDataUtility.compare_rows(maxRow, currMaxRow, myOutputColumn) > 0))
                 myOutputTable.addRow(maxRow, hashString);
             return myProject(myOutputTable.getRow(hashString));
         }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/GroupBy/MinGroupByEvaluator.cs

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ namespace BCG {
             if (minRow != null) {
                 // BlueEventLog.logAssert (currMinRow != null);
                 // BlueEventLog.logAssert (BlueDataUtility.compareRows (minRow, currMinRow, myOutputColumn) >= 0);
-                if (BlueDataUtility.compareRows(minRow, currMinRow, myOutputColumn) == 0) {
+                if (BlueDataUtility.compare_rows(minRow, currMinRow, myOutputColumn) == 0) {
                     minRow = BlueDataUtility.computeMinRow(dp.newRows, myOutputColumn);
                     if (minRow == null)
                         myOutputTable.removeRow(stringRep);
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ namespace BCG {
                 }
             }
             minRow = BlueDataUtility.computeMinRow(dp.addedRows, myOutputColumn);
-            if (minRow != null && (currMinRow == null || BlueDataUtility.compareRows(minRow, currMinRow, myOutputColumn) < 0))
+            if (minRow != null && (currMinRow == null || BlueDataUtility.compare_rows(minRow, currMinRow, myOutputColumn) < 0))
                 myOutputTable.addRow(minRow, stringRep);
             return myOutputTable.getRow(stringRep);
         }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/GroupBy/NonIncremental/NonIncGroupByStream.cs

@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
-using System.Linq;
-using System.Text;
-using System.Threading.Tasks;
-using mbts;
-using mbts.spark;
+using System.Diagnostics;
+
+using bts;
 
 namespace BCG
 {
@@ -14,7 +12,7 @@ namespace BCG
       private INonIncGroupByEvaluator _groupby_func;
       private BlueRowHasher _row_hasher;
       private string[] _groupby_cols;
-      private HighPerformanceTimer _timer = new HighPerformanceTimer();
+      private Stopwatch _timer = new();
       private int _n_total_fires = 0, _n_expensive_fires = 0;
 
       public NonIncGroupByStream(ViewStream main_stream, INonIncGroupByEvaluator groupby_func)
@@ -33,21 +31,27 @@ namespace BCG
       {
          DataPacket dp = nv as DataPacket;
          ///grouping together
-         _timer.start();
+         _timer.Restart();
          IDictionary<int, List<IBlueRow>> grouped_rows = BlueDataUtility.group_together (dp.newRows, _groupby_cols, ref _row_hasher);
-         _timer.stop();
-         // mbts.Logger.log(bts.log.Level.Info, bts.log.Subsystem.gen, String.Format("Time to group {0} rows into {1} groups = {2}", dp.newRows.Count, grouped_rows.Count, _timer.lastIntervalTime));
+         _timer.Stop();
+         var groupElapsedMs = _timer.ElapsedMilliseconds;
+         if (groupElapsedMs >= 50) {
+            Log.DataFlow.info($"Time to group {dp.newRows.Count} rows into {grouped_rows.Count} groups: {_timer.ElapsedMilliseconds}ms");
+         }
+         // Log.log(bts.Log.Level.Info, bts.log.Subsystem.gen, String.Format("Time to group {0} rows into {1} groups = {2}", dp.newRows.Count, grouped_rows.Count, _timer.lastIntervalTime));
          /// reducing
-         _timer.start();
+         _timer.Restart();
          IBlueRowCollection total_state = _groupby_func.evaluate(grouped_rows);
-         _timer.stop();
+         _timer.Stop();
+         var applyElapsedMs = _timer.ElapsedMilliseconds;
          _n_total_fires++;         
-         if (_timer.lastIntervalTime > 50)
+         if (applyElapsedMs >= 50)
          {
             _n_expensive_fires++;
-            // mbts.Logger.log(bts.log.Level.Info, bts.log.Subsystem.gen, String.Format("Time to evaluate {0} groups {1} , ratio {2}/{3}", grouped_rows.Count, _timer.lastIntervalTime, _n_expensive_fires, _n_total_fires));
+            Log.DataFlow.info(
+               $"Time to evaluate {grouped_rows.Count} groups {_timer.ElapsedMilliseconds}ms, ratio {_n_expensive_fires}/{_n_total_fires}");
          }         
          myFireEvent(new DataPacket(total_state, total_state, myLastValue == null ? new BlueTable(total_state.schema) : (myLastValue as DataPacket).newRows));             
-      }      
+      }
    }
 }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/Join/JoinNameResolver.cs

@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ namespace BCG
             string prependString = isLeft ? "left" : "right";
             return String.Concat (prependString, colName).GetHashCode ();
          }
-         public override bool Equals (object obj)  {return GetHashCode () == obj.GetHashCode ();}
+         public override bool Equals (object? obj)  =>
+            GetHashCode() == obj?.GetHashCode();
       }
 
 

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/Join/JoinStream.cs

@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ namespace BCG
 {
    public class JoinStream : ViewStream
    {
-      protected InternalJoinStream myIjs;
-      protected ProjectStream myPs;
-      protected ColumnMap myLeftCm, myRightCm;
+      protected InternalJoinStream? myIjs;
+      protected ProjectStream? myPs;
+      protected ColumnMap? myLeftCm, myRightCm;
       protected bool myIsProject = true;
       private bool myUseSuperJoin = DataStreamLoadFileConfig.instance.useNewJoin;
       

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/Join/NonIncremental/NonIncJoinBookkeeper.cs

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-using System;
-using System.Collections.Generic;
-using System.Linq;
-using System.Text;
-using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using bts;
+
 using mbts;
-using mbts.spark;
+
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Diagnostics;
 
 namespace BCG
 {
@@ -40,8 +40,7 @@ namespace BCG
 
       public void _on_stream_cb(object dp_obj)
       {
-         HighPerformanceTimer timer = new HighPerformanceTimer();
-         timer.start();
+         var timer = Stopwatch.StartNew();
          DataPacket dp = (DataPacket)dp_obj;
          if (_schema == null)
          {
@@ -67,13 +66,12 @@ namespace BCG
                   _row_map[_row_hasher.get_hash(r, _join_col_indices)] = r;
             }
          }
-         timer.stop();
+         timer.Stop();
          _n_total_fires++;
-         if (timer.lastIntervalTime > 50)
-         {
+         if (timer.ElapsedMilliseconds >= 50) {
             _n_expensive_fires++;
-            string log_msg = String.Format("NonIncJoinBookkeepingData._on_stream_cb {0} rows {1} key cols {2} join pos time {3} ratio {4}/{5}", dp.newRows.Count, _join_col_indices.Length, _join_position, timer.lastIntervalTime, _n_expensive_fires, _n_total_fires);
-            // mbts.Logger.log(bts.log.Level.Info, bts.log.Subsystem.gen, log_msg);
+            Log.Gen.info($"NonIncJoinBookkeepingData._on_stream_cb {dp.newRows.Count} rows {_join_col_indices.Length} "
+               + $"key cols {_join_position} join pos time {timer.Elapsed} ratio {_n_expensive_fires}/{_n_total_fires}");
          }
          if (on_new_data != null)
             on_new_data();

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/Join/NonIncremental/NonIncJoinStream.cs

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-using System;
-using System.Collections.Generic;
-using System.Linq;
-using System.Text;
-using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using bts;
+
 using mbts;
-using mbts.spark;
+
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Diagnostics;
 
 namespace BCG
 {
@@ -114,8 +114,7 @@ namespace BCG
          if (_is_ready())
          {
             _construct_schema();
-            HighPerformanceTimer timer = new HighPerformanceTimer();
-            timer.start();
+            var timer = Stopwatch.StartNew();
             IList<Pair<int, IBlueRow>> left_row_list = _book_keeping_data[0].get_list();
             List<object[]> output_rows = new List<object[]>();
 
@@ -138,13 +137,12 @@ namespace BCG
                }
             }
             IBlueRowCollection dp_output_rows = _apply_map(new SequentialIDBlueTable(_output_schema, output_rows));
-            timer.stop();
+            timer.Stop();
             _n_total_fires++;
-            if (timer.lastIntervalTime >= 250)
-            {
+            if (timer.ElapsedMilliseconds >= 250) {
                _n_expensive_fires++;
-               string log_msg = String.Format("Join and map time for {0} tables {1} ratio {2}/{3}", _book_keeping_data.Count, timer.lastIntervalTime, _n_expensive_fires, _n_total_fires);
-               // mbts.Logger.log(bts.log.Level.Info, bts.log.Subsystem.gen, log_msg);
+               string log_msg = $"Join and map time for {_book_keeping_data.Count} "
+                  + $"tables {timer.Elapsed} ratio {_n_expensive_fires}/{_n_total_fires}";
             }
             myFireEvent(new DataPacket(dp_output_rows, dp_output_rows, myLastValue == null ? new BlueTable(_output_schema) : (myLastValue as DataPacket).newRows));
          }
@@ -154,15 +152,12 @@ namespace BCG
       {
          if (_output_mapper != null)
          {
-            HighPerformanceTimer timer = new HighPerformanceTimer();
             IBlueRowCollection output_rows;
-            timer.start();
+            var timer = Stopwatch.StartNew();
             output_rows = _output_mapper.map_rows(unmapped_rows);
-            timer.stop();
-            if (timer.lastIntervalTime >= 50)
-            {
-               // string log_msg = String.Format("Time to map {0} rows into {1} rows {2}", unmapped_rows.Count, output_rows.Count, timer.lastIntervalTime);
-               // mbts.Logger.log(bts.log.Level.Info, bts.log.Subsystem.gen, log_msg);
+            timer.Stop();
+            if (timer.ElapsedMilliseconds >= 50) {
+               Log.Gen.info($"Time to map {unmapped_rows.Count} rows into {output_rows.Count} rows {timer.Elapsed}");
             }
             return output_rows;
          }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/Join/SuperJoinStream.cs

@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
-using System.Text;
-using BCG.Utilities.General;
-using BCG.Utilities;
 using mbts;
-using mbts.spark;
 using Spark.Core.Collections;
 
 namespace BCG
@@ -226,7 +222,8 @@ namespace BCG
 
       #region IDictionary Members
 
-      public void Add(object key, object value) { { throw new NotSupportedException("IBlueRow is readonly"); } }
+      public void Add(object key, object? value) =>
+         throw new NotSupportedException("IBlueRow is readonly");
 
       public void Clear() { throw new NotSupportedException("IBlueRow is readonly"); }
 
@@ -256,10 +253,9 @@ namespace BCG
          }
       }
 
-      public object this[object key]
-      {
-         get { return key is string ? this[key.ToString()] : this[(int)key]; }
-         set { throw new NotSupportedException("IBlueRow is readonly"); }
+      public object? this[object key] {
+         get => key is string str ? this[str] : this[(int)key];
+         set => throw new NotSupportedException("IBlueRow is readonly");
       }
 
       #endregion
@@ -294,7 +290,6 @@ namespace BCG
       protected Dictionary<int, IBlueRow> myLeftUnmatchedRowsAdds = new Dictionary<int, IBlueRow>(),
                                           myLeftUnmatchedRowsDels = new Dictionary<int, IBlueRow>();
       private bool myManageUnmappedLeftRows = false;
-      protected HighPerformanceTimer myTimer = new HighPerformanceTimer();
       protected string myLeftProj = String.Empty, myRightProj = String.Empty;
       protected IBlueTableSchema myLeftSchema, myRightSchema;
       protected JoinProjectHelper myJoinProjectHelper;
@@ -361,7 +356,6 @@ namespace BCG
 
       private void myHandleStreamChanges(DataPacket dp, bool isLeft)
       {
-         myTimer.start();
          myInitSchema(dp.schema, isLeft);
          BlueTable dels = null, adds = null;
          if (myState != null)
@@ -371,7 +365,6 @@ namespace BCG
          }
          myDeleteRows(dp.deletedRows, isLeft, myState, dels);
          myAddRows(dp.addedRows, isLeft, myState, adds);
-         myTimer.stop();
          if (myState != null)
          {
             myFireEvent(new DataPacket(myState, adds, dels));

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/LightJoinStreams/LightForeignJoinRow.cs

@@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ namespace BCG
          }
       }
 
-      public void Add (object key, object value)   {throw new NotSupportedException ("The IBlueRow is readonly");}
+      public void Add (object key, object? value) =>
+         throw new NotSupportedException ("The IBlueRow is readonly");
 
       public void Clear () {throw new NotSupportedException ("The IBlueRow is readonly");}
 

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/Literal/LiteralStream.cs

@@ -1,51 +1,64 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+
 using BCG;
 using BCG.Utilities;
 
-namespace BCG
-{
-   public class LiteralStream : ViewStream
-   {
-      public LiteralStream(string tableName, string schema, string value)
-      {
-         string [] columns = schema.Split(' ');
+namespace BCG {
+   public class LiteralStream : ViewStream {
+
+      public static List<Tuple<ColumnInfo, object>> parse_columns(string key_value_pairs) {
+         List<Tuple<ColumnInfo, object>> rv = new List<Tuple<ColumnInfo, object>>();
+         string[] pairs = key_value_pairs.Split(' ');
+         foreach (string p in pairs) {
+            string[] kvp = p.Split(':');
+            string col_name = kvp[0];
+            string val = kvp[1];
+            var tup = BlueDataUtility.guess_type(val);
+            var ci = new ColumnInfo(col_name, rv.Count, tup.Item1);
+            rv.Add(Tuple.Create(ci, tup.Item2));
+         }
+         return rv;
+      }
+
+      public LiteralStream(string tableName, string schema, string value) {
+         string[] columns = schema.Split(' ');
 
 
-         ColumnInfo [] ci = new ColumnInfo[columns.Length + 1];
-         ci[0] = new ColumnInfo("id",0,typeof(int));
+         ColumnInfo[] ci = new ColumnInfo[columns.Length + 1];
+         ci[0] = new ColumnInfo("id", 0, typeof(int));
          int n = 1;
-         foreach (string c in columns)
-         {
-            string [] columnAndType = c.Split('/');
+         foreach (string c in columns) {
+            string[] columnAndType = c.Split('/');
             if (columnAndType.Length == 1)
-               ci[n] = new ColumnInfo(c,n,typeof(double));
+               ci[n] = new ColumnInfo(c, n, typeof(double));
             else
-               ci[n] = new ColumnInfo(columnAndType[0],n,Type.GetType("System." + columnAndType[1],true));
+               ci[n] = new ColumnInfo(columnAndType[0], n, Type.GetType("System." + columnAndType[1], true));
             n++;
          }
 
 
-         BlueTable t = new BlueTable(new BlueTableSchema(tableName,ci));
-         string [] rows = value.Split(';');
+         BlueTable t = new BlueTable(new BlueTableSchema(tableName, ci));
+         string[] rows = value.Split(';');
          n = 0;
-         foreach (string r in rows) 
-            try 
-            {
-               if(r == string.Empty)
+         foreach (string r in rows)
+            try {
+               if (r == string.Empty)
                   continue;
                t.addRow(
-                  BlueDataUtility.createRowFromCSVFileRow (r, t.schema,++n));   
-            }
-            catch (Exception e)
-            {
+                  BlueDataUtility.createRowFromCSVFileRow(r, t.schema, ++n));
+            } catch (Exception e) {
                throw (new Exception("Error occured at line: " + n.ToString() + " " + e.Message));
             }
 
          mySetRealSource(new BlueRowCollectionStaticStream(t));
       }
 
-      public LiteralStream(string schema, string value) : this ("literal",schema, value)
-      {}
+      public LiteralStream(string schema, string value) : this("literal", schema, value) { }
+
+      // public LiteralStream(string value) {
+
+      // }
    }
 }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/Map/DynamicUntypedToTypedMapper.cs

@@ -1,24 +1,24 @@
-using System;
+// using System;
 
-namespace BCG
-{
-   public class DynamicUntypedToTypedMapper : IDynamicStreamMapper
-   {
-      IBlueTableSchema mySchema;
+// namespace BCG
+// {
+//    public class DynamicUntypedToTypedMapper : IDynamicStreamMapper
+//    {
+//       IBlueTableSchema mySchema;
 
-      public IBlueRow map (IBlueRow row)
-      {
-         if (mySchema == null)
-         {
-            ColumnInfo[] cis = new ColumnInfo [row.schema.columnInfo.Length];
-            int i = 0;
-            foreach (ColumnInfo ci in row.schema.columnInfo)
-               cis[i++] = ci.colType == null ?
-                  new ColumnInfo (ci.colName, ci.colNo, row[ci.colNo].GetType()) :
-                  new ColumnInfo (ci.colName, ci.colNo, row[ci.colNo].GetType(), ci.colValue);
-            mySchema = new BlueTableSchema (row.schema.tableName, cis);
-         }
-         return new BlueRow (mySchema, row);
-      }
-   }
-}
+//       public IBlueRow map (IBlueRow row)
+//       {
+//          if (mySchema == null)
+//          {
+//             ColumnInfo[] cis = new ColumnInfo [row.schema.columnInfo.Length];
+//             int i = 0;
+//             foreach (ColumnInfo ci in row.schema.columnInfo)
+//                cis[i++] = ci.colType == null ?
+//                   new ColumnInfo (ci.colName, ci.colNo, row[ci.colNo].GetType()) :
+//                   new ColumnInfo (ci.colName, ci.colNo, row[ci.colNo].GetType(), ci.colValue);
+//             mySchema = new BlueTableSchema (row.schema.tableName, cis);
+//          }
+//          return new BlueRow (mySchema, row);
+//       }
+//    }
+// }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/Map/MapStream.cs

@@ -1,15 +1,10 @@
-using System;
-using System.Data;
-using System.Collections;
-
 using Bts.DataStream;
 
-using mbts;
-using mbts.spark;
 using mbts.config;
 
-namespace BCG
-{
+using System;
+
+namespace BCG {
 
 
    /// <summary>
@@ -21,24 +16,45 @@ namespace BCG
    [DataStreamUserRespresentation (false)]
    public class MapStream : MethodDrivenStream
    {
-      private HighPerformanceTimer t = new HighPerformanceTimer ();
       protected IStreamMapper myMapper;
       protected IChangeableStreamMapper myChangeableMapper = null;
       private bool myUseNewMap = Configuration.get<DataStreamConfig>().UseNewMap;
 
-      public MapStream(ViewStream vs, IStreamMapper mapper) : base (vs)
-      {
-         if (myUseNewMap)
-            mySetRealSource (new SuperMapStream (vs, mapper));
-         else
-            myMapper = mapper;
+      public class FuncWrapper : IStreamMapper {
+         private Func<IBlueTableSchema, IBlueTableSchema> _schema_map_func;
+         Func<IBlueRow, IBlueRow> _row_map_func;
+
+         public FuncWrapper(Func<IBlueTableSchema, IBlueTableSchema> schema_map_func,
+         Func<IBlueRow, IBlueRow> row_map_func) {
+            _schema_map_func = schema_map_func;
+            _row_map_func = row_map_func;
+         }
+         public IBlueTableSchema getOutputSchema(IBlueTableSchema input_schema) {
+            return _schema_map_func(input_schema);
+         }
+         public IBlueRow map(IBlueRow row) {
+            return _row_map_func(row);
+         }
+
       }
-      public MapStream(ViewStream vs, IChangeableStreamMapper mapper) : this (vs,(IStreamMapper)mapper)
-      {
+
+      public MapStream(ViewStream vs, IStreamMapper mapper) : base(vs) {
          if (myUseNewMap)
             mySetRealSource(new SuperMapStream(vs, mapper));
          else
-         {
+            myMapper = mapper;
+      }
+
+      public MapStream(ViewStream vs, Func<IBlueTableSchema, IBlueTableSchema> schema_map_func,
+                                       Func<IBlueRow, IBlueRow> row_map_func)
+                                       :
+                                       this(vs, new FuncWrapper(schema_map_func, row_map_func)) {
+      }
+
+      public MapStream(ViewStream vs, IChangeableStreamMapper mapper) : this(vs, (IStreamMapper)mapper) {
+         if (myUseNewMap)
+            mySetRealSource(new SuperMapStream(vs, mapper));
+         else {
             mapper.onMapperChange += new MapperChangeDelegate(myMapperChanged);
             myChangeableMapper = mapper;
          }
@@ -47,77 +63,68 @@ namespace BCG
       /// <summary>
       /// Gets or sets the value of the mapper. Setting the value will result in re
       /// </summary>
-      private void myMapperChanged () 
-      {
+      private void myMapperChanged() {
          if (myLastArrivedPacket != null)
-            myChangeHandler (new DataPacket (myLastArrivedPacket.newRows, 
+            myChangeHandler(new DataPacket(myLastArrivedPacket.newRows,
                                              myLastArrivedPacket.newRows,
                                              myLastArrivedPacket.newRows));
       }
 
 
-      protected override void myHandleFirstCall ()
-      {
-         
-         IBlueTableSchema outputSchema = myMapper.getOutputSchema (myLastArrivedPacket.newRows.schema);
-         myLastFiredPacket = new DataPacket ();
-         myLastFiredPacket.newRows = new BlueTable (outputSchema);
-         myLastFiredPacket.deletedRows = new BlueTable (outputSchema);
+      protected override void myHandleFirstCall() {
+
+         IBlueTableSchema outputSchema = myMapper.getOutputSchema(myLastArrivedPacket.newRows.schema);
+         myLastFiredPacket = new DataPacket();
+         myLastFiredPacket.newRows = new BlueTable(outputSchema);
+         myLastFiredPacket.deletedRows = new BlueTable(outputSchema);
          foreach (IBlueRow row in myLastArrivedPacket.newRows)
-            ((BlueTable)(myLastFiredPacket.newRows)).addRow (myMapper.map(row));
+            ((BlueTable)(myLastFiredPacket.newRows)).addRow(myMapper.map(row));
          myLastFiredPacket.addedRows = new BlueTable(myLastFiredPacket.newRows);
       }
 
-      protected override void myHandleIncrementalAdd()
-      {
+      protected override void myHandleIncrementalAdd() {
          //t.start ();
-         myLastFiredPacket.addedRows = new BlueTable (myLastFiredPacket.newRows.schema);
-         foreach (IBlueRow row in myLastArrivedPacket.addedRows)
-         {
-            IBlueRow newRow = myMapper.map (row);
-            (myLastFiredPacket.newRows as BlueTable).addRow (newRow);
-            (myLastFiredPacket.addedRows as BlueTable).addRow (newRow);
+         myLastFiredPacket.addedRows = new BlueTable(myLastFiredPacket.newRows.schema);
+         foreach (IBlueRow row in myLastArrivedPacket.addedRows) {
+            IBlueRow newRow = myMapper.map(row);
+            (myLastFiredPacket.newRows as BlueTable).addRow(newRow);
+            (myLastFiredPacket.addedRows as BlueTable).addRow(newRow);
          }
          //t.stop ();
          //System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine ("adding " + myLastFiredPacket.addedRows.Count.ToString () + " : " + t.lastIntervalTime);
          //System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine (" ");
       }
 
-      protected override void myHandleIncrementalDelete()
-      {  
+      protected override void myHandleIncrementalDelete() {
          //t.start ();
-         myLastFiredPacket.deletedRows = new BlueTable (myLastFiredPacket.newRows.schema);
-         foreach (IBlueRow row in myLastArrivedPacket.deletedRows)
-         {
+         myLastFiredPacket.deletedRows = new BlueTable(myLastFiredPacket.newRows.schema);
+         foreach (IBlueRow row in myLastArrivedPacket.deletedRows) {
             IBlueRow delRow = (myLastFiredPacket.newRows as BlueTable)[(int)row["id"]];
-            (myLastFiredPacket.deletedRows as BlueTable).addRow (delRow);
-            (myLastFiredPacket.newRows as BlueTable).deleteRow (row);
+            (myLastFiredPacket.deletedRows as BlueTable).addRow(delRow);
+            (myLastFiredPacket.newRows as BlueTable).deleteRow(row);
          }
          //t.stop ();
          //System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine ("deleting " + myLastFiredPacket.deletedRows.Count.ToString () + " : " + t.lastIntervalTime);
       }
-     
 
-      protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber() 
-      {
-         myStream.onChange += new DataStream.ChangeDelegate (myChangeHandler);
+
+      protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber() {
+         myStream.onChange += new DataStream.ChangeDelegate(myChangeHandler);
       }
 
-      protected override  void myOnLastSubscriber () 
-      {
-         myInit ();
+      protected override void myOnLastSubscriber() {
+         myInit();
          if (myStream != null)
-         myStream.onChange -= new DataStream.ChangeDelegate (myChangeHandler);
+            myStream.onChange -= new DataStream.ChangeDelegate(myChangeHandler);
       }
 
-      protected override void myOnTableClear ()
-      {
+      protected override void myOnTableClear() {
          myLastFiredPacket.deletedRows = myLastFiredPacket.newRows;
-         myLastFiredPacket.newRows = new BlueTable (myLastFiredPacket.deletedRows.schema);
-         myLastFiredPacket.addedRows = new BlueTable (myLastFiredPacket.deletedRows.schema);
+         myLastFiredPacket.newRows = new BlueTable(myLastFiredPacket.deletedRows.schema);
+         myLastFiredPacket.addedRows = new BlueTable(myLastFiredPacket.deletedRows.schema);
       }
 
-      
+
    }
 
    /*

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/Map/SuperMapStream.cs

@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Text;
+
 using BCG.Utilities;
 using BCG.Utilities.General;
+
 using mbts;
 
-namespace BCG
-{
+namespace BCG {
    /// <summary>
    /// SuperMap gives the user the ability
    /// to map one row to one or more rows
@@ -17,13 +18,11 @@ namespace BCG
    /// can chage itself and raise an event causing
    /// a remapping to happen
    /// </summary>
-   public class SuperMapStream : ViewStream
-   {
+   public class SuperMapStream : ViewStream {
       #region super mapper that wraps around stream mapper
-      private class MyMappingWrapper : ISuperStreamMapper
-      {
+      private class MyMappingWrapper : ISuperStreamMapper {
          private IStreamMapper myMapper;
-         
+
          public MyMappingWrapper(IStreamMapper mapper) { myMapper = mapper; }
 
          #region ISuperStreamMapper Members
@@ -32,8 +31,7 @@ namespace BCG
 
          public IBlueRow[] map(IBlueRow inputRow) { return new IBlueRow[] { myMapper.map(inputRow) }; }
 
-         public event MapperChangeDelegate onMapperChange
-         {
+         public event MapperChangeDelegate onMapperChange {
             add { }
             remove { }
          }
@@ -42,21 +40,18 @@ namespace BCG
       }
       #endregion
 
-      private class MyFuncWrapper : ISuperStreamMapper
-      {
+      private class MyFuncWrapper : ISuperStreamMapper {
          private Func<IBlueTableSchema, IBlueTableSchema> _get_schema;
          private Func<IBlueRow, IEnumerable<IBlueRow>> _map_rows;
          public MyFuncWrapper(Func<IBlueTableSchema, IBlueTableSchema> get_schema,
-                              Func<IBlueRow, IEnumerable<IBlueRow>> map_rows)
-         {
+                              Func<IBlueRow, IEnumerable<IBlueRow>> map_rows) {
             _get_schema = get_schema;
             _map_rows = map_rows;
          }
 
          public IBlueTableSchema getOutputSchema(IBlueTableSchema schema) { return _get_schema(schema); }
 
-         public IBlueRow[] map(IBlueRow r)
-         {
+         public IBlueRow[] map(IBlueRow r) {
             IEnumerable<IBlueRow> rows = _map_rows(r);
             return rows == null ? new IBlueRow[] { } : new List<IBlueRow>(rows).ToArray();
          }
@@ -76,19 +71,15 @@ namespace BCG
 
       public SuperMapStream(ViewStream vs, Func<IBlueTableSchema, IBlueTableSchema> get_schema,
                                             Func<IBlueRow, IEnumerable<IBlueRow>> map_rows)
-         : this(vs, new MyFuncWrapper(get_schema, map_rows))
-      { }
+         : this(vs, new MyFuncWrapper(get_schema, map_rows)) { }
 
       public SuperMapStream(ViewStream vs, IBlueTableSchema out_schema, Func<IBlueRow, IEnumerable<IBlueRow>> map_rows)
-         : this(vs, s => out_schema, map_rows)
-      { }
+         : this(vs, s => out_schema, map_rows) { }
 
       public SuperMapStream(ViewStream vs, IStreamMapper mapper)
-         : this(vs, new MyMappingWrapper(mapper))
-      { }
+         : this(vs, new MyMappingWrapper(mapper)) { }
 
-      public SuperMapStream(ViewStream vs, ISuperStreamMapper mapper)
-      {
+      public SuperMapStream(ViewStream vs, ISuperStreamMapper mapper) {
          myStream = vs;
          myMapper = mapper;
          myMapper.onMapperChange += new MapperChangeDelegate(myHandleMapChange);
@@ -96,8 +87,7 @@ namespace BCG
 
       protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber() { myStream.onChange += new ChangeDelegate(myHandleData); }
 
-      protected override void myOnLastSubscriber()
-      {
+      protected override void myOnLastSubscriber() {
          myStream.onChange -= new ChangeDelegate(myHandleData);
          myRows = null;
          myBaseRows = null;
@@ -105,8 +95,7 @@ namespace BCG
          //myMapper.onMapperChange -= new MapperChangeDelegate(myHandleMapChange);
       }
 
-      private void myHandleData(object newValue)
-      {
+      private void myHandleData(object newValue) {
          DataPacket idp = newValue as DataPacket;
          //HighPerformanceTimer timer = new HighPerformanceTimer();
          //timer.start();
@@ -117,24 +106,19 @@ namespace BCG
          BlueTable dels = new BlueTable(myRows.schema),
                      adds = new BlueTable(myRows.schema);
 
-         foreach (IBlueRow r in dp.deletedRows)
-         {
+         foreach (IBlueRow r in dp.deletedRows) {
             List<IBlueRow> mappedRows = myMap[(int)r["id"]];
-            foreach (IBlueRow mr in mappedRows)
-            {
+            foreach (IBlueRow mr in mappedRows) {
                dels.addRow(mr);
                myRows.deleteRow(mr);
             }
             myMap.Remove((int)r["id"]);
          }
-         foreach (IBlueRow r in dp.addedRows)
-         {
+         foreach (IBlueRow r in dp.addedRows) {
             IBlueRow[] mappedRows = myMapper.map(r);
-            foreach (IBlueRow mr in mappedRows)
-            {
+            foreach (IBlueRow mr in mappedRows) {
                IBlueRow idChangedMapRow = generate_ids ? BlueDataUtility.getNewReplacedRow(mr, myID++, "id") : mr;
-               if (!myMap.ContainsKey((int)r["id"]))
-               {
+               if (!myMap.ContainsKey((int)r["id"])) {
                   myMap.Add((int)r["id"], new List<IBlueRow>());
                }
                myMap[(int)r["id"]].Add(idChangedMapRow);
@@ -145,13 +129,12 @@ namespace BCG
          //timer.stop();
          // if (timer.lastIntervalTime > 20)
          //    {}//mbts.Logger.log(bts.log.Level.Info, bts.log.Subsystem.gen, String.Format("SuperMapper:myHandlerData for mapper {0} took {1} msecs", myMapper.GetType().ToString(), timer.lastIntervalTime));
-         // myFireEvent(new DataPacket(myRows, adds, dels));
+         myFireEvent(new DataPacket(myRows, adds, dels));
       }
 
-      private void myHandleMapChange()
-      {
+      private void myHandleMapChange() {
          if (myBaseRows != null)
-            myHandleData(new DataPacket(myBaseRows, new BlueTable (myBaseRows), new BlueTable (myBaseRows)));
+            myHandleData(new DataPacket(myBaseRows, new BlueTable(myBaseRows), new BlueTable(myBaseRows)));
       }
    }
 }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/Misc/DataPacketRecorderStream.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+using BCG;
+using System;
+using System.IO;
+using MongoDB.Bson;
+using BCG.Utilities.General;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Runtime.Intrinsics.X86;
+
+
+namespace bts {
+   // listens to the underlying stream, and writes each seriialized packet in a 
+   // seperate file
+   [DataStreamUserRespresentation("dp_recorder")]
+   public class DataPacketRecorderStream : ViewStream {
+      private ViewStream _base_stream;
+      private readonly string _folder;
+      StreamIOSerializationController _serializer = new StreamIOSerializationController();
+      private UInt32 _n_updates = 0;
+      public DataPacketRecorderStream(ViewStream base_stream, string folder) {
+         _base_stream = base_stream;
+         _folder = folder;
+      }
+
+      protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber() {
+         _base_stream.onChange += _handle_update;
+      }
+
+      protected override void myOnLastSubscriber() {
+         _base_stream.onChange -= _handle_update;
+      }
+
+      private void _handle_update(object dp_obj) {
+         DataPacket dp = dp_obj as DataPacket;
+         byte[] ser_data = null;
+         if (_n_updates == 0) {
+            StreamIOMessage.CreateMessage cr_msg = new StreamIOMessage.CreateMessage(dp.newRows);
+            ser_data = _serializer.serialize(new StreamIOMessage(cr_msg));
+         } else {
+            StreamIOMessage.MultipleRemoveAddMessage mra = new StreamIOMessage.MultipleRemoveAddMessage(dp.deletedRows, dp.addedRows);
+            ser_data = _serializer.serialize(new StreamIOMessage(mra));
+         }
+         Log.assert(ser_data != null);
+         _n_updates++;
+         string file_name = $"{_folder}\\{_n_updates}.bin";
+         _write_to_file(ser_data, file_name);
+         myFireEvent(dp);
+      }
+
+      private static void _write_to_file(byte[] data, string file_name) {
+         using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(file_name, FileMode.Create)) {
+            // Write the byte array to the file
+            fs.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
+         }
+      }
+   }
+   [DataStreamUserRespresentation("dp_replay")]
+   public class DataPacketReplayStream : ViewStream, IWorker {
+      private ViewStreamDatabase _vsd;
+      private readonly string _folder_path;
+      private readonly TimeSpan _fire_period;
+      IStreamMsgDeserilizer _deser = new StreamIODeserializationController();
+      private int _file_ptr = 0;
+      private List<Tuple<string, byte[]>> _file_data = new List<Tuple<string, byte[]>>();
+      private BlueTable _state = null;
+
+      public DataPacketReplayStream(string folder_path, string fire_period)
+      :
+      this(ViewStreamDatabase.instance, folder_path, TimeBasedFilter.parse_duration(fire_period)) {
+      }
+
+      public DataPacketReplayStream(ViewStreamDatabase vsd, string folder_path, TimeSpan fire_period) {
+         _vsd = vsd;
+         _folder_path = folder_path;
+         _fire_period = fire_period;
+      }
+
+      protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber() {
+         MasterWorker.getInstance(false).addWorker(this, _fire_period);
+         _load_all_files();
+      }
+
+      protected override void myOnLastSubscriber() {
+         MasterWorker.getInstance(false).removeWorker(this);
+      }
+
+      public void doWork() {
+         if (_file_ptr >= _file_data.Count())
+            // we can set _file_ptr to 0 and keep going as well
+            return;
+         var curr_d = _file_data[_file_ptr++];
+         var hext_txt = StreamSerializationUtils.to_hex(curr_d.Item2);
+         StreamIOMessage msg = _deser.deserialize(curr_d.Item2);
+         Log.Gen.info($"DataPacketReplayStream.doWork packet no : {_file_ptr} file : {curr_d.Item1} data: {hext_txt}");
+         switch (msg.op) {
+            case StreamIOMessage.StreamOp.CREATE: {
+                  _state = new BlueTable(msg.create_message.rows);
+                  break;
+               }
+            case StreamIOMessage.StreamOp.MULTIPLE_REMOVE_ADD: {
+                  var mra = msg.multiple_remove_add_message;
+                  foreach (IBlueRow r in mra.removed_rows)
+                     _state.deleteRow(r);
+                  foreach (IBlueRow r in mra.added_rows)
+                     _state.addRow(r);
+                  break;
+               }
+         }
+         var dp = BlueDataUtility.build_dp_inc(_state, myLastValue == null ? null : myLastValue as DataPacket, false);
+         myFireEvent(dp);
+      }
+
+      private void _load_all_files() {
+         Func<string, string> extract_file_name = (string full_path) => {
+            string fn = full_path.Split("\\").Last();
+            fn = fn.Split(".").First();
+            return fn;
+
+         };
+         string[] bin_files = Directory.GetFiles(_folder_path, "*.bin");
+
+         // Iterate over the .bin files and perform an action
+         foreach (string file in bin_files) {
+            byte[] file_data = File.ReadAllBytes(file);
+            _file_data.Add(Tuple.Create(file, file_data));
+         }
+         _file_data.Sort((Tuple<string, byte[]> t1, Tuple<string, byte[]> t2) => {
+            string fn1 = extract_file_name(t1.Item1);
+            string fn2 = extract_file_name(t2.Item1);
+            int fn_i1 = Int32.Parse(fn1);
+            int fn_i2 = Int32.Parse(fn2);
+            if (fn_i1 < fn_i2)
+               return -1;
+            else if (fn_i1 == fn_i2)
+               return 0;
+            else if (fn_i1 > fn_i2)
+               return 1;
+            return 0;
+         });
+      }
+   }
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/Misc/PubSubTestStream.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,227 @@
+using BCG;
+using BCG.Utilities.General;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+
+//using MongoDB.Driver;
+
+using System;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Linq;
+
+namespace bts
+{
+    public class PubSubTestingStream : ViewStream, IWorker
+    {
+        public class PayloadMessage
+        {
+            public int msg_id = 0;
+            public string guid;
+            public Int64 travel_epoch_ms = 0;
+            public byte[] payload = null;
+            public PayloadMessage(int msg_id_args, Int64 send_epoch_args, int payload_size, byte payload_byte)
+            {
+                msg_id = msg_id_args;
+                travel_epoch_ms = send_epoch_args;
+                payload = new byte[payload_size];
+                for (int i = 0; i < payload_size; i++)
+                {
+                    payload[i] = payload_byte;
+                }
+            }
+            private PayloadMessage() { }
+            public PayloadMessage(int msg_id, int payload_size, byte payload_byte) :
+            this(msg_id, PubSubTestingStream.epoch_now(), payload_size, payload_byte)
+            { }
+
+            public byte[] serialize()
+            {
+                var str = new MemoryStream();
+                BinaryWriter bw = new BinaryWriter(str);
+                bw.Write(msg_id);
+                bw.Write(guid);
+                bw.Write(travel_epoch_ms);
+                bw.Write(payload.Length);
+                bw.Write(payload);
+                str.Position = 0;
+                var bytes = str.ToArray();
+                return bytes;
+            }
+
+            public static PayloadMessage deserialize(byte[] ser_bytes)
+            {
+                var str = new MemoryStream(ser_bytes);
+                BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(str);
+                int msg_id = br.ReadInt32();
+                string guid = br.ReadString();
+                Int64 epoch = br.ReadInt64();
+                int len = br.ReadInt32();
+                var payload = br.ReadBytes(len);
+                return new PayloadMessage()
+                {
+                    msg_id = msg_id,
+                    guid = guid,
+                    travel_epoch_ms = epoch,
+                    payload = payload
+                };
+            }
+
+        }
+        //public void
+        private readonly int _msg_size;
+        private readonly TimeSpan _publish_period;
+        private DateTime _last_publish_time = DateTime.MinValue;
+        private PublisherCore _pub_core = new PublisherCore();
+        private BlueTable _table;
+        private int _n_pubs = 0;
+        private readonly int _max_pubs;
+        private int _n_updates = 0;
+        private bool _continue_sub_thread = true;
+        private ViewStreamDatabase _vsd;
+        private bool _fire_dirty = false;
+        private PayloadMessage _last_sent_msg, _last_recvd_msg;
+        private readonly int _payload_sz;
+        private const byte _payload_byte = (byte)'A';
+        private readonly string _tag_name;
+        public PubSubTestingStream(int publish_period_msecs, int max_pubs, int payload_size, string tag_name, ViewStreamDatabase vsd)
+        {
+            _vsd = vsd;
+            _payload_sz = payload_size;
+            var schema = BlueDataUtility.form_schema("PubSubTest",
+            Tuple.Create("id", TypeCode.Int32),
+            Tuple.Create("n_pubs", TypeCode.Int32),
+            Tuple.Create("n_recvs", TypeCode.Int32),
+            Tuple.Create("last_sent_id", TypeCode.Int32),
+            Tuple.Create("last_recv_id", TypeCode.Int32),
+            Tuple.Create("last_sent_guid", TypeCode.String),
+            Tuple.Create("last_recv_guid", TypeCode.String),
+            Tuple.Create("match", TypeCode.Boolean),
+            Tuple.Create("echo_time", TypeCode.Int32));
+            _table = new BlueTable(schema);
+            _publish_period = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(publish_period_msecs);
+            _msg_size = payload_size;
+            _max_pubs = max_pubs;
+            _tag_name = tag_name;
+        }
+
+        public PubSubTestingStream(int publish_period_seconds, int max_pubs, int msg_size, string tag_name)
+        : this(publish_period_seconds, max_pubs, msg_size, tag_name, ViewStreamDatabase.instance) { }
+
+        protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber()
+        {
+            _vsd.addWorker(this);
+            System.Threading.Thread th = new System.Threading.Thread(_subscribe_thread_func);
+            th.IsBackground = true;
+            th.Start();
+        }
+
+        protected override void myOnLastSubscriber()
+        {
+            _vsd.removeWorker(this);
+            _continue_sub_thread = false;
+        }
+
+        void _log_updates(IEnumerable<PubSubServerMessage> updates)
+        {
+            var idx = 0;
+            foreach (var msg in updates)
+            {
+                bts.Log.Gen.info($"PubSubTesStream._subscribe_thread_func idx: {idx} msg: {msg}");
+                idx++;
+            }
+        }
+
+        private void _subscribe_thread_func()
+        {
+            // subscription is done in another thread
+            SubscriberCore sub_core = new SubscriberCore();
+            sub_core.subscribe(_tag_name);
+            while (_continue_sub_thread)
+            {
+                // TODO recv_id
+                var updates = sub_core.get_updates(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(250));
+                if (updates == null || updates.Count() == 0)
+                    continue;
+                _log_updates(updates);
+                _n_updates += updates.Count();
+                if (updates.Count() > 0)
+                {
+                    var server_msg = updates.Last();
+                    if (server_msg.data != null && server_msg.data.Length > 0)
+                    {
+                        _last_recvd_msg = PayloadMessage.deserialize(server_msg.data);
+                        _last_recvd_msg.travel_epoch_ms = epoch_now();
+                    }
+                    else
+                    {
+                        // why are we getting empty or null data ? (server is sending data regardless?)
+                    }
+                    _fire_dirty = true;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        private void _publish_next_packet()
+        {
+            if (_last_sent_msg == null)
+            {
+                _last_sent_msg = new PayloadMessage(0, _payload_sz, _payload_byte)
+                {
+                    guid = Guid.NewGuid().ToString()
+                };
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                _last_sent_msg.msg_id++;
+                _last_sent_msg.guid = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
+                _last_sent_msg.travel_epoch_ms = epoch_now();
+            }
+            var ser_bytes = _last_sent_msg.serialize();
+            _n_pubs++;
+            _pub_core.publish("Blob", _tag_name, ser_bytes);
+            _fire_dirty = true;
+        }
+
+        private void _fire_dp()
+        {
+            object last_sent_id = _last_sent_msg == null ? (object)DBNull.Value : (object)_last_sent_msg.msg_id;
+            object last_recv_id = _last_recvd_msg == null ? (object)DBNull.Value : (object)_last_recvd_msg.msg_id;
+            object echo_time = DBNull.Value;
+            object last_sent_guid = _last_sent_msg == null ? (object)DBNull.Value : (object)_last_sent_msg.guid;
+            object last_recv_guid = _last_recvd_msg == null ? (object)DBNull.Value : (object)_last_recvd_msg.guid;
+            if (_last_sent_msg != null && _last_recvd_msg != null)
+            {
+                echo_time = _last_recvd_msg.travel_epoch_ms - _last_sent_msg.travel_epoch_ms;
+            }
+            var match = last_sent_id.Equals(last_recv_id) && last_sent_guid.Equals(last_recv_guid);
+            IBlueRow nr = new BlueRow(_table.schema, 0, _n_pubs, _n_updates,
+                                        last_sent_id, last_recv_id, last_sent_guid, last_recv_guid, match, echo_time);
+            BlueTable table = new BlueTable(_table.schema);
+            table.addRow(nr);
+            var dp = BlueDataUtility.build_dp_inc(table, myLastValue as DataPacket, true);
+            myFireEvent(dp);
+        }
+
+        public void doWork()
+        {
+            if (DateTime.Now - _last_publish_time > _publish_period)
+                if (_n_pubs <= _max_pubs)
+                {
+                    _publish_next_packet();
+                    _last_publish_time = DateTime.Now;
+                }
+            // publish 
+            // TODO: send id
+            if (_fire_dirty)
+            {
+                _fire_dirty = false;
+                _fire_dp();
+            }
+        }
+
+        public static long epoch_now()
+        {
+            return DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds();
+        }
+
+    }
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/Misc/PubsubEchoTestStream.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,223 @@
+using BCG;
+using BCG.Utilities.General;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+
+
+using System;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
+using bts.api;
+
+namespace bts
+{
+   [DataStreamUserRespresentation("pss_echo")]
+   public class PubsubEchoTestStream : ViewStream, IWorker
+   {
+      public class PayloadMessage
+      {
+         public readonly string msg_id;
+         public readonly Int64 timestamp = 0;
+         public readonly byte[] payload = null;
+
+         public static byte[] create_data(int payload_size, byte payload_byte)
+         {
+            var rv = new byte[payload_size];
+            for (int i = 0; i < payload_size; i++)
+            {
+               rv[i] = payload_byte;
+            }
+            return rv;
+         }
+
+         // public PayloadMessage(string guid_, Int64 timestamp_, int payload_size, byte payload_byte)
+         // {
+         //    guid = guid_;
+         //    timestamp = timestamp_;
+         //    payload = new byte[payload_size];
+         //    for (int i = 0; i < payload_size; i++)
+         //    {
+         //       payload[i] = payload_byte;
+         //    }
+         // }
+         public PayloadMessage(string guid_, Int64 timestamp_, byte[] payload_)
+         {
+            msg_id = guid_;
+            timestamp = timestamp_;
+            payload = payload_;
+         }
+
+         private PayloadMessage() { }
+         public byte[] serialize()
+         {
+            var str = new MemoryStream();
+            BinaryWriter bw = new BinaryWriter(str);
+            bw.Write(msg_id);
+            bw.Write(timestamp);
+            bw.Write(payload.Length);
+            bw.Write(payload);
+            str.Position = 0;
+            var bytes = str.ToArray();
+            return bytes;
+         }
+
+         public static PayloadMessage deserialize(byte[] ser_bytes)
+         {
+            var str = new MemoryStream(ser_bytes);
+            BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(str);
+            string guid = br.ReadString();
+            Int64 timestamp_ = br.ReadInt64();
+            int len = br.ReadInt32();
+            var payload = br.ReadBytes(len);
+            return new PayloadMessage(guid, timestamp_, payload);
+         }
+      }
+      //public void
+      private readonly int _msg_size;
+      private readonly TimeSpan _publish_period;
+      private DateTime _last_publish_time = DateTime.MinValue;
+      private PublisherCore _pub_core;
+      private ISubscriberCore _sub_core;
+      private BlueTable _table;
+      private int _n_pubs = 0;
+      private readonly int _max_pubs;
+      private int _n_updates = 0;
+      private ViewStreamDatabase _vsd;
+      private PayloadMessage _last_sent_msg, _last_recvd_msg;
+      private const byte _payload_byte = (byte)'A';
+      private readonly string _tag_name;
+      private readonly int _payload_sz;
+      private readonly IPubSubRouter _router;
+      private enum IOState
+      {
+         SEND = 0,
+         RECV = 1
+      };
+      IOState _state = IOState.SEND;
+
+      public PubsubEchoTestStream(string server_url, TimeSpan publish_period, int payload_size, string tag_name, ViewStreamDatabase vsd)
+      {
+         var route = new PubSubRoute(server_url, ".*");
+         _router = new PubSubRouter(route);
+         _vsd = vsd;
+         _payload_sz = payload_size;
+         var schema = BlueDataUtility.form_schema("PubSubTest",
+         Tuple.Create("id", TypeCode.Int32),
+         Tuple.Create("sent_id", TypeCode.String),
+         Tuple.Create("sent_time", TypeCode.Int64),
+         Tuple.Create("recv_id", TypeCode.String),
+         Tuple.Create("recv_time", TypeCode.Int64),
+         Tuple.Create("match", TypeCode.Boolean),
+         Tuple.Create("echo_time", TypeCode.Int32));
+         _table = new BlueTable(schema);
+         _publish_period = publish_period;
+         _tag_name = tag_name;
+      }
+
+      public PubsubEchoTestStream(string server_url, int publish_period_msecs, int payload_size, string tag_name)
+      : this(server_url, TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(publish_period_msecs), payload_size, tag_name, ViewStreamDatabase.instance) { }
+
+      protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber()
+      {
+         _pub_core = new PublisherCore(_router);
+         _sub_core = new SubscriberCore(_router);
+         _sub_core.subscribe(_tag_name);
+         _vsd.addWorker(this);
+
+      }
+
+      protected override void myOnLastSubscriber()
+      {
+         _vsd.removeWorker(this);
+         _sub_core.unsubscribe(_tag_name);
+      }
+
+      private void _fire_dp_after_send()
+      {
+         // as soon as the data is published, its reflected in the stream state
+         Log.assert(_last_sent_msg != null);
+         BlueRow r = new BlueRow(_table.schema, _table.Count, _last_sent_msg.msg_id, _last_sent_msg.timestamp, DBNull.Value, DBNull.Value,
+            DBNull.Value, DBNull.Value);
+         _table.addRow(r);
+         var dp_out = BlueDataUtility.build_dp_inc(_table, myLastValue as DataPacket);
+         myFireEvent(dp_out);
+      }
+
+      private void _fire_dp_after_recv()
+      {
+         Log.assert(_last_recvd_msg != null);
+         // update the last publish row
+         int id = _table.Count - 1;
+         IBlueRow last_row = _table[id];
+         _table.deleteRow(last_row);
+         var recv_ts = epoch_now();
+         BlueRow nr = new BlueRow(_table.schema, id, _last_sent_msg.msg_id, _last_sent_msg.timestamp, _last_recvd_msg.msg_id, recv_ts,
+                                 String.Compare(_last_recvd_msg.msg_id, _last_sent_msg.msg_id) == 0, recv_ts - _last_recvd_msg.timestamp);
+         _table.addRow(nr);
+         var dp_out = BlueDataUtility.build_dp_inc(_table, myLastValue as DataPacket);
+         myFireEvent(dp_out);
+      }
+
+      private string _get_next_id()
+      {
+         return _table.Count.ToString();
+      }
+
+      private void _publish_next_packet()
+      {
+         var bytes = PayloadMessage.create_data(_payload_sz, _payload_byte);
+         _last_sent_msg = new PayloadMessage(_get_next_id(), epoch_now(), bytes);
+         var ser_bytes = _last_sent_msg.serialize();
+         _n_pubs++;
+         _pub_core.publish("Blob", _tag_name, ser_bytes);
+         _last_publish_time = DateTime.Now;
+      }
+
+      public void doWork()
+      {
+         Func<IEnumerable<PubSubServerMessage>, PayloadMessage> find_packet = (updates) =>
+         {
+            foreach (var u in updates)
+            {
+               var recv_msg = PayloadMessage.deserialize(u.data);
+               if (recv_msg.msg_id == _last_sent_msg.msg_id)
+               {
+                  return recv_msg;
+               }
+            }
+            return null;
+         };
+         switch (_state)
+         {
+            case IOState.SEND:
+               if (DateTime.Now - _last_publish_time >= _publish_period)
+               {
+                  _publish_next_packet();
+                  _last_publish_time = DateTime.Now;
+                  _fire_dp_after_send();
+                  _state = IOState.RECV;
+                  return;
+               }
+               break;
+            case IOState.RECV:
+               var updates = _sub_core.get_updates(TimeSpan.Zero);
+               updates = updates.Where(u => u.tag == _tag_name);
+               var recv_msg = find_packet(updates);
+               if (recv_msg != null)
+               {
+                  _last_recvd_msg = recv_msg;
+                  _fire_dp_after_recv();
+                  _state = IOState.SEND;
+                  break;
+               }
+               break;
+         }
+      }
+
+      public static long epoch_now()
+      {
+         return DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds();
+      }
+
+   }
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/Misc/SimpleTCPEchoStream.cs

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+namespace bts {
+   using BCG;
+   using BCG.Utilities.General;
+
+   using System;
+
+   public class SimpleTCPEchoStream : ViewStream, IWorker {
+      private string _ip;
+      private int _port;
+      private SimpleTCPClient _tcp_client;
+      private IBlueTableSchema _schema = BlueDataUtility.form_schema("SimpleTCPEchoStream",
+      Tuple.Create("id", TypeCode.Int32),
+      Tuple.Create("event", TypeCode.String));
+      private BlueTable _table;
+      private SyncQueue<string> _action_queue = new SyncQueue<string>();
+
+      public SimpleTCPEchoStream(string ip, int port, int msg_sz, int send_wait_period_ms)
+      : this(ip, port, msg_sz, send_wait_period_ms, Int32.MaxValue) { }
+
+      public SimpleTCPEchoStream(string ip, int port, int msg_sz, int send_wait_period_ms, int max_n_msgs) {
+         _ip = ip;
+         _port = port;
+         _table = new BlueTable(_schema);
+         _tcp_client = new SimpleTCPClient(_ip, _port, Convert.ToUInt32(msg_sz), send_wait_period_ms, max_n_msgs);
+      }
+
+      protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber() {
+         ViewStreamDatabase.instance.addWorker(this);
+         _tcp_client.register_listener((msg) => { _on_msg(msg); });
+         _tcp_client.start();
+      }
+
+      private void _on_msg(string msg) {
+         _action_queue.enqueue(msg);
+      }
+
+      public void doWork() {
+         if (_action_queue.getCount() == 0)
+            return;
+         BlueTable added_rows = new BlueTable(_schema);
+         var sz = _action_queue.getCount();
+         for (int i = 0; i < sz; i++) {
+            string msg = _action_queue.dequeue();
+            if (msg == null)
+               break;
+            IBlueRow nr = new BlueRow(_schema, _table.Count, msg);
+            _table.addRow(nr);
+            added_rows.addRow(nr);
+         }
+         if (added_rows.Count == 0)
+            return;
+         DataPacket dp = new DataPacket(_table, added_rows, new BlueTable(_schema));
+         myFireEvent(dp);
+      }
+
+
+   }
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/Misc/SnapshotReplayStream.cs

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+using System.Net.Sockets;
+using System.Net;
+
+using BCG;
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using MongoDB.Bson;
+using BCG.Utilities.General;
+using System.Linq;
+
+
+namespace bts {
+   // this class, a little specialized, takes the first snapshot thats fired 
+   // from the base stream sorts them by a given column, and fires one row at a time 
+   public class SnapshotReplayStream : ViewStream, IWorker {
+
+      private ViewStreamDatabase _vsd;
+      private ViewStream _snapshot_stream;
+      private readonly string _sort_col;
+      private readonly int _buffer_size;
+      private TimeSpan _fire_period;
+      private int _in_row_ptr = 0;
+      private List<IBlueRow> _in_rows = new List<IBlueRow>();
+      private CircularBufferTable _out_table;
+
+
+      public SnapshotReplayStream(ViewStream base_str, string sort_col, int buffer_size, string fire_period)
+      : this(ViewStreamDatabase.instance, base_str, sort_col, buffer_size, TimeBasedFilter.parse_duration(fire_period)) { }
+
+      public SnapshotReplayStream(ViewStreamDatabase vsd, ViewStream base_str, string sort_col, int buffer_size, TimeSpan fire_period) {
+         _vsd = vsd;
+         _snapshot_stream = base_str;
+         _sort_col = sort_col;
+         _buffer_size = buffer_size;
+         _fire_period = fire_period;
+      }
+
+      protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber() {
+         _snapshot_stream.onChange += _handle_stream_update;
+         MasterWorker.getInstance(false).addWorker(this, _fire_period);
+      }
+
+      protected override void myOnLastSubscriber() {
+         base.myOnLastSubscriber();
+      }
+
+      private void _handle_stream_update(object dp_obj) {
+         DataPacket dp = dp_obj as DataPacket;
+         if (_in_rows.Count > 0)
+            return;
+         _out_table = new CircularBufferTable(dp.schema, _buffer_size);
+         // _in_rows is filled up only once
+         foreach (IBlueRow r in dp.newRows) {
+            _in_rows.Add(r);
+         }
+         _in_rows.Sort((IBlueRow r1, IBlueRow r2) => {
+            return BlueDataUtility.compare_rows(r1, r2, _sort_col);
+         });
+      }
+
+      public void doWork() {
+         if (_in_row_ptr >= _in_rows.Count) {
+            // we can loop around or not here
+            return;
+         }
+         if (_in_rows.Count > 0) {
+            // fire row
+            IBlueRow curr_row = _in_rows.ElementAt(_in_row_ptr++);
+            _out_table.add_row(curr_row);
+            DataPacket dp = BlueDataUtility.build_dp_inc(_out_table,
+               myLastValue == null ? null : myLastValue as DataPacket, false);
+            myFireEvent(dp);
+         }
+      }
+   }
+
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/Misc/TestStream.cs

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+using bts;
+
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Reflection;
+
+namespace BCG {
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// This stream (not for prod) provides a way to run tests - that could otherwise be run in NUnits.
+    /// (truth is stream rpovide a RDE for quickly coding and running, so it was eaiser to run tests here)
+    /// </summary>
+    [DataStreamUserRespresentation("tests")]
+    public class TesStream : ViewStream {
+        static byte[] create_byte_array() {
+            Random random = new Random();
+            var sz = random.Next(1, 1000);// % 1000;
+
+            // Generate a random byte
+            byte randomByte = (byte)random.Next(byte.MinValue, byte.MaxValue + 1);
+            byte[] rv = new byte[sz];
+            for (int i = 0; i < sz; i++) {
+                rv[i] = (byte)random.Next(byte.MinValue, byte.MaxValue + 1);
+            }
+            return rv;
+        }
+
+        private IBlueTableSchema _schema;
+        class TestResult {
+            public string test_name = MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod()?.Name
+               ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("Failed to get test name from method");
+            public bool test_result;
+        }
+        private List<Func<TestResult>> _tests = new
+         List<Func<TestResult>>();
+
+        public TesStream() {
+            _schema = BlueDataUtility.form_schema("Tests",
+            Tuple.Create("id", TypeCode.Int32),
+            Tuple.Create("test", TypeCode.String),
+            Tuple.Create("result", TypeCode.Boolean),
+            Tuple.Create("exception", TypeCode.String)
+            );
+            // register tests here
+            _tests.Add(new Func<TestResult>(_run_sub_msg_test));
+            _tests.Add(new Func<TestResult>(_run_pub_msg_test));
+            _tests.Add(new Func<TestResult>(_run_pubsub_server_msg_test));
+            _tests.Add(new Func<TestResult>(_run_pubsub_client_msg_test));
+            _tests.Add(new Func<TestResult>(_run_columninfo_serialization_test));
+            // _tests.Add(new Func<TestResult>(_run_schema_serialization_test));
+            // _tests.Add(new Func<TestResult>(_row_serialization_tests_no_dbnulls));
+            //  _tests.Add(new Func<TestResult>(_row_serialization_tests_with_dbnulls));
+            //_tests.Add(new Func<TestResult>(_row_serialization_tests_all_types));
+            // _tests.Add(new Func<TestResult>(_run_full_stream_serialization_test));
+            // _tests.Add(new Func<TestResult>(_run_full_stream_serialization_with_controller_test));
+            // _tests.Add(new Func<TestResult>(_run_pubsub_server_stream_tag_handler_test));
+            // _tests.Add(new Func<TestResult>(_run_single_tag_data_test_clean));
+            //_tests.Add(new Func<TestResult>(_cpp_data_test));
+            //_tests.Add(new Func<TestResult>(_write_stream_updates_to_files));
+            _tests.Add(new Func<TestResult>(_deserialize_pub_msg_test));
+
+        }
+
+        protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber() {
+            BlueTable rows = new BlueTable(_schema);
+            // u the tests here            
+            foreach (var test in _tests) {
+                string ex_msg = String.Empty;
+                TestResult tr = new TestResult() {
+                    test_name = test.Method.Name,
+                    test_result = false
+                };
+                try {
+                    tr = test();
+                } catch (Exception ex) {
+                    ex_msg = ex.Message + "\n" + ex.StackTrace;
+                }
+                IBlueRow r = new BlueRow(_schema, rows.Count, tr.test_name, tr.test_result, ex_msg);
+                rows.addRow(r);
+            }
+            var dp = BlueDataUtility.build_dp_inc(rows, myLastValue as DataPacket, true);
+            myFireEvent(dp);
+        }
+        protected override void myOnLastSubscriber() {
+        }
+
+        private TestResult _run_sub_msg_test() {
+            bts.SubscribeMsg sub_msg = new bts.SubscribeMsg() {
+                connection = Guid.NewGuid().ToString(),
+                subscribing_app = Guid.NewGuid().ToString(),
+                tags = new string[] { "one", "two", "three" }
+            };
+            MemoryStream str = new MemoryStream();
+            sub_msg.serialize_into_str(str);
+            str.Position = 0;
+            bts.SubscribeMsg sub_msg_ = new bts.SubscribeMsg();
+            sub_msg_.consruct_deserialize(str);
+            bool res = sub_msg.Equals(sub_msg_);
+            return new TestResult {
+                test_name = "SubscribeMsg",
+                test_result = res
+            };
+        }
+
+        private TestResult _run_pub_msg_test() {
+            var pub_msg = new bts.PublishMsg() {
+                connection = Guid.NewGuid().ToString(),
+                publishing_app = Guid.NewGuid().ToString(),
+                tag = Guid.NewGuid().ToString(),
+                tag_type = "DS_",
+                is_compressed = false,
+                publish_time_epoch_ms = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds(),
+                data_to_publish = create_byte_array(),
+            };
+            MemoryStream str = new MemoryStream();
+            pub_msg.serialize_into_str(str);
+            str.Position = 0;
+            var pub_msg_ = new bts.PublishMsg();
+            pub_msg_.consruct_deserialize(str);
+            bool res = pub_msg.Equals(pub_msg_);
+            return new TestResult {
+                test_name = "PublishMsg",
+                test_result = res
+            };
+        }
+
+        private TestResult _run_pubsub_server_msg_test() {
+            var msg = new bts.PubSubServerMessage() {
+                tag = Guid.NewGuid().ToString(),
+                tag_type = Guid.NewGuid().ToString(),
+                data = create_byte_array()
+            };
+            MemoryStream str = new MemoryStream();
+            msg.serialize_into_str(str);
+            str.Position = 0;
+            var msg_ = new bts.PubSubServerMessage();
+            msg_.consruct_deserialize(str);
+            bool res = msg.Equals(msg_);
+            return new TestResult {
+                test_name = "PubSubServerMessage",
+                test_result = res
+            };
+        }
+
+        private TestResult _run_pubsub_client_msg_test() {
+            PubSubClientMessage msg = new PubSubClientMessage() {
+                msg_type = PubSubMessageType.SUBSCRIBE,
+                sub_msg = new bts.SubscribeMsg() {
+                    connection = Guid.NewGuid().ToString(),
+                    subscribing_app = Guid.NewGuid().ToString(),
+                    tags = new string[] { "one", "two", "three" }
+                }
+            };
+            var str = new MemoryStream();
+            msg.serialize_into_str(str);
+            str.Position = 0;
+            var msg_ = new PubSubClientMessage();
+            msg_.consruct_deserialize(str);
+            var res = msg.Equals(msg_);
+            return new TestResult {
+                test_name = "PubSubClientMessage",
+                test_result = res
+            };
+        }
+
+        private TestResult _run_columninfo_serialization_test() {
+            Func<ColumnInfo, bool> test_ci = (ci) => {
+                MemoryStream str = new MemoryStream();
+                BinaryWriter bw = new BinaryWriter(str);
+                StreamSerializationUtils.serialize_column_info(ci, ref bw);
+                str.Position = 0;
+                //var ci_txt = BlueDataUtility.to_string(ci);
+                //var ci_ser = 
+                //bts.Log.Gen.info("ci: {}")
+                BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(str);
+                var ci_prime = StreamSerializationUtils.deserialize_column_info(ref br);
+                return BlueDataUtility.compute_equality(ci, ci_prime);
+            };
+            int i = 0;
+            foreach (Type t in BlueDataUtility.valid_column_types()) {
+                ColumnInfo ci = new ColumnInfo(Guid.NewGuid().ToString(),
+                i++, t);
+                var res = test_ci(ci);
+                if (!res) {
+                    return new TestResult {
+                        test_name = "ColumnInfoSerialization",
+                        test_result = false
+                    };
+                }
+            }
+            return new TestResult {
+                test_name = "ColumnInfoSerialization",
+                test_result = true
+            };
+        }
+
+
+        private TestResult _run_schema_serialization_test() {
+            var table_name = "test_table";
+            var excluded_types = new HashSet<Type>() { typeof(DateTime), typeof(Decimal) };
+            IBlueTableSchema schema = create_schema_with_all_types(excluded_types);
+            MemoryStream str = new MemoryStream();
+            BinaryWriter bw = new BinaryWriter(str);
+            StreamSerializationUtils.serialize_schema(schema, ref bw);
+            _write_to_file(str, @"c:\Temp\tests\schema.bin");
+            var hex_txt = StreamSerializationUtils.to_hex(str);
+            bts.Log.Gen.info($"_run_schema_serialization_test ser: {hex_txt}");
+
+            str.Position = 0;
+            BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(str);
+            var schema_prime = StreamSerializationUtils.deserialize_schema(ref br);
+            var res = BlueDataUtility.compute_equality(schema, schema_prime);
+
+            return new TestResult {
+                test_name = "SchemaSerialization",
+                test_result = res
+            };
+        }
+
+
+
+
+        private TestResult _run_datetime_seriliaztion_test() {
+            DateTime dt = DateTime.Now;
+            DateTimeOffset dt_off = new DateTimeOffset(dt);
+            long dt_epoch_ms = dt_off.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds();
+            DateTimeOffset dt_off_pr = DateTimeOffset.FromUnixTimeMilliseconds(dt_epoch_ms);
+            DateTime dt_p = dt_off_pr.DateTime;
+            var passes = dt.Equals(dt_p);
+            return new TestResult {
+                test_name = "_run_datetime_seriliaztion_test",
+                test_result = false
+            };
+        }
+
+        private TestResult _run_full_stream_serialization_test() {
+            // create message
+            var schema = create_schema_with_all_types();
+            BlueTable cr_rows = new BlueTable(schema);
+            // 100 rows
+            int n_rows = 100;
+            for (int i = 0; i < n_rows; i++) {
+                var nr = generate_random_row(schema, i);
+                cr_rows.addRow(nr);
+            }
+            MemoryStream str = new MemoryStream();
+            BinaryWriter bw = new BinaryWriter(str);
+            bts.StreamIOMessage.CreateMessage cr_msg = new bts.StreamIOMessage.CreateMessage(cr_rows);
+            bts.StreamIOMessage stream_io_msg = new bts.StreamIOMessage(cr_msg);
+            UniversalStreamIOSerializer ser = new UniversalStreamIOSerializer();
+            ser.serialize(stream_io_msg, ref bw);
+            str.Position = 0;
+            BinaryReader br = new System.IO.BinaryReader(str);
+            UniversalStreamIODeserializer deser = new bts.UniversalStreamIODeserializer();
+            var stream_io_msg_prime = deser.deserialize(ref br);
+            bool passes = stream_io_msg.Equals(stream_io_msg_prime);
+            var n_dels = 50;
+            BlueTable del_rows = new BlueTable(cr_rows.schema);
+            foreach (IBlueRow r in cr_rows) {
+                del_rows.addRow(r);
+                if (del_rows.Count == n_dels)
+                    break;
+            }
+            IBlueRowCollection added_rows = del_rows;
+            bts.StreamIOMessage.MultipleRemoveAddMessage mra_msg = new bts.StreamIOMessage.MultipleRemoveAddMessage(del_rows, added_rows);
+            str = new MemoryStream();
+            bw = new BinaryWriter(str);
+            stream_io_msg = new bts.StreamIOMessage(mra_msg);
+            ser.serialize(stream_io_msg, ref bw);
+            bw.BaseStream.Position = 0;
+            br = new BinaryReader(str);
+            //deser = new UniversalStreamIODeserializer();
+            stream_io_msg_prime = deser.deserialize(ref br);
+            passes = passes && stream_io_msg.Equals(stream_io_msg_prime);
+            return new TestResult {
+                test_name = "UniversalSerialization",
+                test_result = passes
+            };
+        }
+
+        private TestResult _run_full_stream_serialization_with_controller_test() {
+            // create message
+            var schema = create_schema_with_all_types();
+            BlueTable cr_rows = new BlueTable(schema);
+            // 100 rows
+            int n_rows = 100;
+            for (int i = 0; i < n_rows; i++) {
+                var nr = generate_random_row(schema, i);
+                cr_rows.addRow(nr);
+            }
+            bts.StreamIOMessage.CreateMessage cr_msg = new bts.StreamIOMessage.CreateMessage(cr_rows);
+            bts.StreamIOMessage stream_io_msg = new bts.StreamIOMessage(cr_msg);
+            IStreamIOMsgSerializer ser = new StreamIOSerializationController();
+            var ser_bytes = ser.serialize(stream_io_msg);
+            IStreamMsgDeserilizer deser = new bts.StreamIODeserializationController();
+            var stream_io_msg_prime = deser.deserialize(ser_bytes);
+            bool passes = stream_io_msg.Equals(stream_io_msg_prime);
+            //mult remove adds
+            // remove all rows and add 50 more
+
+            BlueTable del_rows = new BlueTable(cr_rows);
+            BlueTable added_rows = new BlueTable(cr_rows.schema);
+            var n_adds = 50;
+            for (int i = 0; i < n_adds; i++) {
+                var nr = generate_random_row(schema, i);
+                added_rows.addRow(nr);
+            }
+            bts.StreamIOMessage.MultipleRemoveAddMessage mra_msg = new bts.StreamIOMessage.MultipleRemoveAddMessage(del_rows, added_rows);
+            stream_io_msg = new bts.StreamIOMessage(mra_msg);
+            ser_bytes = ser.serialize(stream_io_msg);
+            var ser_bytes_hex = StreamSerializationUtils.to_hex(ser_bytes);
+            Log.Gen.info($"ser_bytes: {ser_bytes_hex}");
+            stream_io_msg_prime = deser.deserialize(ser_bytes);
+            passes = passes && stream_io_msg.Equals(stream_io_msg_prime);
+            return new TestResult {
+                test_name = "UniversalSerializationController",
+                test_result = passes
+            };
+        }
+
+        private TestResult _row_serialization_tests_no_dbnulls() {
+            // IBlueTableSchema schema = BlueDataUtility.form_schema("test_table",
+            //                                                     new Tuple<string, TypeCode>("id", TypeCode.Int32),
+            //                                                     new Tuple<string, TypeCode>("i1", TypeCode.Int32),
+            //                                                     new Tuple<string, TypeCode>("d1", TypeCode.Double),
+            //                                                     new Tuple<string, TypeCode>("string_1", TypeCode.String));
+            // bts.UniversalRowSerializer row_ser = new bts.UniversalRowSerializer(schema);
+            // IBlueRow r = new BlueRow(schema, 0, 100, 123.45, "test_string");
+            var schema = create_schema_with_all_types(new HashSet<Type>() { typeof(DateTime), typeof(Decimal) });
+            bts.UniversalRowSerializer row_ser = new bts.UniversalRowSerializer(schema);
+            MemoryStream str = new MemoryStream();
+            IBlueRow r = generate_random_row(schema, 0, false);
+            BinaryWriter bw = new BinaryWriter(str);
+            row_ser.serialize_row(r, 0, ref bw);
+            _write_to_file(str, @"C:\Temp\tests\row.bin");
+            str.Position = 0;
+            byte[] raw_byte_array = str.ToArray();
+            var hex_txt = StreamSerializationUtils.to_hex(raw_byte_array);
+            Log.Gen.info($"TestStream._row_serialization_tests_no_dbnulls Row bytes: {hex_txt}");
+            BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(str);
+            bts.UniversalRowDeserializer des = new UniversalRowDeserializer(schema);
+            IBlueRow r_prime = des.deserialize_row(ref br);
+            string row_str = r_prime.to_string();
+            Log.Gen.info($"TestStream._row_serialization_tests_no_dbnulls r_prime: {row_str}");
+            var passes = BlueDataUtility.compute_equality(r, r_prime);
+            return new TestResult {
+                test_name = "UniversalRowSerialization_NonNull",
+                test_result = passes
+            };
+        }
+
+        private TestResult _deserialize_pub_msg_test() {
+            var pub_msg_ser = _read_from_file(@"C:\Temp\tests\pubsub_raw_msgs\publish_msg.bin");
+            PubSubClientMessage ps_client_msg = new PubSubClientMessage();
+            ps_client_msg.consruct_deserialize(pub_msg_ser);
+            bool passes = ps_client_msg.msg_type == PubSubMessageType.PUBLISH;
+            return new TestResult {
+                test_name = "_deserialize_pub_msg_test",
+                test_result = passes
+            };
+        }
+
+        private TestResult _cpp_data_test() {
+            //create and write schema
+            IBlueTableSchema schema = BlueDataUtility.form_schema("test_table",
+                                                                new Tuple<string, TypeCode>("id", TypeCode.Int32),
+                                                                new Tuple<string, TypeCode>("i_1", TypeCode.Int32),
+                                                                new Tuple<string, TypeCode>("i_2", TypeCode.Int32),
+                                                                new Tuple<string, TypeCode>("d_1", TypeCode.Double),
+                                                                new Tuple<string, TypeCode>("string_1", TypeCode.String)
+                                                                );
+            bts.UniversalRowSerializer row_ser = new bts.UniversalRowSerializer(schema);
+            UniversalRowDeserializer row_deser = new UniversalRowDeserializer(schema);
+            StreamIOSerializationController ser_controller = new StreamIOSerializationController();
+            StreamIODeserializationController deser_controller = new StreamIODeserializationController();
+
+            IBlueTableSchema schema_p = null;
+            var schema_file = @"c:\Temp\tests\schema.bin";
+            var row_file = @"C:\Temp\tests\row.bin";
+            var create_op_file = @"C:\Temp\tests\create_op.bin";
+            var mra_op_file = @"C:\Temp\tests\mra_op.bin";
+            IBlueRow row = new BlueRow(schema, 0, 100, 200, 123.45, "test_string");
+
+            //serialize schema, write it to a file, read it back, deserialize it and match schemas
+            byte[] ser_schema_bytes = StreamSerializationUtils.serialize_schema(schema);
+            _write_to_file(ser_schema_bytes, schema_file);
+
+            byte[] schema_file_bytes = _read_from_file(schema_file);
+            schema_p = StreamSerializationUtils.deserialize_schema(schema_file_bytes);
+            bool passes = BlueDataUtility.compute_equality(schema, schema_p);
+
+            //serialize row, write it to a file, read it back, deserialize it and match schemas    
+            byte[] ser_row_bytes = row_ser.serialize_row(row);
+            _write_to_file(ser_row_bytes, row_file);
+
+            byte[] row_file_bytes = _read_from_file(row_file);
+            var row_file_bytes_txt = StreamSerializationUtils.to_hex(row_file_bytes);
+            Log.Gen.info($"TestsStream._cpp_data_test row_file_bytes_txt: {row_file_bytes_txt}");
+
+            IBlueRow row_p = row_deser.deserialize_row(row_file_bytes);
+            passes = passes && BlueDataUtility.compute_equality(row, row_p);
+
+            {
+                // serialize a create operation
+                int n_rows = 100;
+                BlueTable table = new BlueTable(schema);
+                for (int i = 0; i < n_rows; i++) {
+                    IBlueRow nr = new BlueRow(schema, i, 100, 200, 123.45, "test_string");
+                    table.addRow(nr);
+                }
+                StreamIOMessage cr_msg = new StreamIOMessage(new StreamIOMessage.CreateMessage(table));
+                //StreamIOSerializationController ser_controller = new StreamIOSerializationController();
+                byte[] create_ser_bytes = ser_controller.serialize(cr_msg);
+                _write_to_file(create_ser_bytes, create_op_file);
+
+                // read it and make sure its right
+                byte[] create_op_file_bytes = _read_from_file(create_op_file);
+                //StreamIODeserializationController deser_controller = new StreamIODeserializationController();
+                var cr_msg_p = deser_controller.deserialize(create_op_file_bytes);
+                _write_to_file(create_ser_bytes, mra_op_file);
+
+                passes = passes && cr_msg.Equals(cr_msg_p);
+
+            }
+            //multiple remove adds
+            {
+                // remove all rows and add them again
+                int n_rows = 100;
+                BlueTable table = new BlueTable(schema);
+                for (int i = 0; i < n_rows; i++) {
+                    IBlueRow nr = new BlueRow(schema, i, 100, 200, 123.45, "test_string");
+                    table.addRow(nr);
+                }
+                StreamIOMessage mra_msg = new StreamIOMessage(new StreamIOMessage.MultipleRemoveAddMessage(table, table));
+
+                //StreamIOSerializationController ser_controller = new StreamIOSerializationController();
+                byte[] mra_ser_bytes = ser_controller.serialize(mra_msg);
+                _write_to_file(mra_ser_bytes, mra_op_file);
+
+                // reasd it and make sure it matches
+                byte[] mra_op_file_bytes = _read_from_file(mra_op_file);
+                //StreamIODeserializationController deser_controller = new StreamIODeserializationController();
+                StreamIOMessage mra_msg_p = deser_controller.deserialize(mra_op_file_bytes);
+                passes = passes && mra_msg.Equals(mra_msg_p);
+            }
+            return new TestResult {
+                test_name = "_cpp_data_test",
+                test_result = passes
+            };
+        }
+
+        private TestResult _write_stream_updates_to_files() {
+            IBlueTableSchema schema = BlueDataUtility.form_schema("test_table",
+                                                                new Tuple<string, TypeCode>("id", TypeCode.Int32),
+                                                                new Tuple<string, TypeCode>("i_1", TypeCode.Int32),
+                                                                new Tuple<string, TypeCode>("i_2", TypeCode.Int32),
+                                                                new Tuple<string, TypeCode>("d_1", TypeCode.Double),
+                                                                new Tuple<string, TypeCode>("string_1", TypeCode.String)
+                                                                );
+            var packets_path = @"C:\Temp\tests\stream_packets\";
+            Func<long> now_epochs = () => {
+                DateTimeOffset now = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow;
+                // Convert to Unix time in milliseconds
+                long unix_time_milliseconds = now.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds();
+                return unix_time_milliseconds;
+            };
+            Func<int, bool, string> curr_file_path = (id, create) => {
+                //var epoch_ms = now_epochs();
+                var file_path = $"{packets_path}{id}.bin";
+                if (create)
+                    file_path = $"{packets_path}create_{id}.bin";
+                return file_path;
+            };
+            // write 1000 stream updates
+            {
+                int init_sz = 100;
+                BlueTable table = new BlueTable(schema);
+                StreamIOSerializationController ser_controller = new StreamIOSerializationController();
+                // create table of 100 rows
+                for (int i = 0; i < init_sz; i++) {
+                    IBlueRow nr = new BlueRow(schema, i, i * 100, i * 200, i * 123.45, "test_string");
+                    table.addRow(nr);
+                }
+                // write create msg
+                StreamIOMessage cr_msg = new StreamIOMessage(new StreamIOMessage.CreateMessage(table));
+                byte[] create_ser_bytes = ser_controller.serialize(cr_msg);
+                var create_file_path = curr_file_path(table.Count, true);
+                _write_to_file(create_ser_bytes, create_file_path);
+
+                // add 1000 rows and write an io msg for each update and write it to a file
+                int n_updates = 1000;
+                int period_ms = 50;
+
+                // write a create
+                for (int i = 0; i < n_updates; i++) {
+                    // addition
+                    BlueTable adds = new BlueTable(schema);
+                    int id = table.Count;
+                    IBlueRow nr = new BlueRow(schema, id, i * 100, i * 200, i * 123.45, "test_string");
+                    adds.addRow(nr);
+                    BlueTable dels = new BlueTable(schema);
+                    table.addRow(nr);
+                    StreamIOMessage mra_msg = new StreamIOMessage(new StreamIOMessage.MultipleRemoveAddMessage(dels, adds));
+                    byte[] mra_ser_bytes = ser_controller.serialize(mra_msg);
+                    var mra_file_path = curr_file_path(id, false);
+                    _write_to_file(mra_ser_bytes, mra_file_path);
+
+                    System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(period_ms));
+                }
+                // now start writing increments and add 1 row at a time
+            }
+            return new TestResult {
+                test_name = "_write_updates_as_files",
+                test_result = true
+            };
+        }
+
+
+        private TestResult _row_serialization_tests_with_dbnulls() {
+            IBlueTableSchema schema = BlueDataUtility.form_schema("test_table",
+                                                                new Tuple<string, TypeCode>("id", TypeCode.Int32),
+                                                                new Tuple<string, TypeCode>("i1", TypeCode.Int32),
+                                                                new Tuple<string, TypeCode>("d1", TypeCode.Double),
+                                                                new Tuple<string, TypeCode>("string_1", TypeCode.String));
+            bts.UniversalRowSerializer row_ser = new bts.UniversalRowSerializer(schema);
+            IBlueRow r = new BlueRow(schema, 0, DBNull.Value, 123.45, "test_string");
+            MemoryStream str = new MemoryStream();
+            BinaryWriter bw = new BinaryWriter(str);
+            row_ser.serialize_row(r, 0, ref bw);
+            str.Position = 0;
+            BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(str);
+            bts.UniversalRowDeserializer des = new UniversalRowDeserializer(schema);
+            IBlueRow r_prime = des.deserialize_row(ref br);
+            var passes = BlueDataUtility.compute_equality(r, r_prime);
+            return new TestResult {
+                test_name = "UniversalRowSerialization_WithDBNulls",
+                test_result = passes
+            };
+        }
+
+        private TestResult _row_serialization_tests_all_types() {
+            var schema = create_schema_with_all_types();
+            bts.UniversalRowSerializer row_ser = new bts.UniversalRowSerializer(schema);
+            IBlueRow r = generate_random_row(schema, 0, false);
+            MemoryStream str = new MemoryStream();
+            BinaryWriter bw = new BinaryWriter(str);
+            row_ser.serialize_row(r, 0, ref bw);
+            _write_to_file(str, @"C:\Temp\tests\row.bin");
+            str.Position = 0;
+            BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(str);
+            bts.UniversalRowDeserializer des = new UniversalRowDeserializer(schema);
+            IBlueRow r_prime = des.deserialize_row(ref br);
+            var passes = BlueDataUtility.compute_equality(r, r_prime);
+            return new TestResult {
+                test_name = "UniversalRowSerialization_AllTypes",
+                test_result = passes
+            };
+        }
+
+        private static TestResult _run_pubsub_server_stream_tag_handler_test() {
+            // create message
+            var schema = create_schema_with_all_types();
+            var tag = "DS_" + schema.tableName;
+            BlueTable cr_rows = new BlueTable(schema);
+            // 100 rows
+            int n_rows = 100;
+            for (int i = 0; i < n_rows; i++) {
+                var nr = generate_random_row(schema, i);
+                cr_rows.addRow(nr);
+            }
+
+            PubsubServerSingleStreamTagHandler handler = new PubsubServerSingleStreamTagHandler();
+            bts.StreamIOMessage.CreateMessage cr_msg = new bts.StreamIOMessage.CreateMessage(cr_rows);
+            bts.StreamIOMessage str_io_msg = new bts.StreamIOMessage(cr_msg);
+            IStreamIOMsgSerializer ser = new StreamIOSerializationController();
+            byte[] msg_bytes = ser.serialize(str_io_msg);
+            handler.update(tag, msg_bytes);
+
+            //now get it back for the handler
+            byte[] content = handler.get_content(tag);
+            IStreamMsgDeserilizer deser = new StreamIODeserializationController();
+            bts.StreamIOMessage str_io_msg_p = deser.deserialize(content);
+            // test here
+            var passes = str_io_msg.Equals(str_io_msg_p);
+            // delete all rows
+            BlueTable del_rows = new BlueTable(cr_rows);
+            cr_rows.clear();
+            // added 50 new rows
+            BlueTable added_rows = new BlueTable(del_rows.schema);
+            int new_state_sz = 50;
+            for (int i = 0; i < new_state_sz; i++) {
+                var nr = generate_random_row(schema, i);
+                added_rows.addRow(nr);
+            }
+            cr_rows.addRows(added_rows);
+            // the sequence of operations are ops, ser, update, get_content, deser, maake sure the get_content state is good
+            // 1. generate op
+            bts.StreamIOMessage.MultipleRemoveAddMessage mra = new bts.StreamIOMessage.MultipleRemoveAddMessage(del_rows, added_rows);
+            str_io_msg = new bts.StreamIOMessage(mra);
+            // 2. serialize it into bytes
+            msg_bytes = ser.serialize(str_io_msg);
+            // 3. send it to handler
+            handler.update(tag, msg_bytes);
+            // 4. get the state from the handler
+            byte[] content_p = handler.get_content(tag);
+            // 5. deserialize the state into a stream op
+            str_io_msg_p = deser.deserialize(content_p);
+            // 6. check to make sure the state's rows are good
+            passes = passes && str_io_msg_p.op == bts.StreamIOMessage.StreamOp.CREATE &&
+                    BlueDataUtility.compute_equality(cr_rows, str_io_msg_p.create_message.rows);
+            return new TestResult {
+                test_result = passes,
+                test_name = "run_pubsub_server_stream_tag_handler_test"
+            };
+        }
+
+
+        private static TestResult _run_single_tag_data_test_clean() {
+            // create message
+            var test_name = MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().Name;
+            var schema = create_schema_with_all_types();
+            var tag = "DS_" + schema.tableName;
+            BlueTable table = new BlueTable(schema);
+            IStreamIOMsgSerializer serializer = new StreamIOSerializationController();
+            IStreamMsgDeserilizer deser = new StreamIODeserializationController();
+            bts.SingleTagData st_data = new bts.SingleTagData(tag, DSTagManager.DataStreamTagType);
+            // create with 100 rows
+            int n_rows = 100;
+            bool is_succ = true;
+            for (int i = 0; i < n_rows; i++) {
+                var nr = generate_random_row(schema, i);
+                // perform the same action SingletagData, and verify the states match
+                PublishMsg pub_msg = build_pub_msg(nr, null, table.Count == 0, ref serializer);
+                table.addRow(nr);
+                st_data.handle_publish(pub_msg);
+                var table_p = get_rows_from_single_tag_state(ref st_data, ref deser);
+                is_succ = is_succ && BlueDataUtility.compute_equality(table, table_p);
+            }
+            // change all rows
+            for (int i = 0; i < n_rows; i++) {
+                var nr = generate_random_row(schema, i);
+                var dr = table[i];
+                table.deleteRow(dr);
+                table.addRow(nr);
+                PublishMsg pub_msg = build_pub_msg(nr, dr, false, ref serializer);
+                st_data.handle_publish(pub_msg);
+                var table_p = get_rows_from_single_tag_state(ref st_data, ref deser);
+                is_succ = is_succ && BlueDataUtility.compute_equality(table, table_p);
+            }
+            // delete all rows
+            var aux_table = new BlueTable(table);
+            foreach (IBlueRow r in aux_table) {
+                table.deleteRow(r);
+                PublishMsg pub_msg = build_pub_msg(null, r, false, ref serializer);
+                st_data.handle_publish(pub_msg);
+                var table_p = get_rows_from_single_tag_state(ref st_data, ref deser);
+                is_succ = is_succ && BlueDataUtility.compute_equality(table, table_p);
+            }
+            return new TestResult() {
+                test_result = is_succ,
+                test_name = test_name
+            };
+        }
+
+
+
+        #region Helper functions
+
+        private static void _write_to_file(byte[] ser_bytes, string file_name) {
+            _write_to_file(new MemoryStream(ser_bytes), file_name);
+        }
+
+        private static void _write_to_file(MemoryStream str, string file_name) {
+            if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(file_name))
+                return;
+            byte[] str_bytes = str.ToArray();
+            using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(file_name, FileMode.Create)) {
+                // Write the byte array to the file
+                fs.Write(str_bytes, 0, str_bytes.Length);
+            }
+        }
+
+        private static byte[] _read_from_file(string file_path) {
+            var rv = File.ReadAllBytes(file_path);
+            return rv;
+        }
+
+        public static IBlueRowCollection get_rows_from_single_tag_state(ref SingleTagData st_data, ref IStreamMsgDeserilizer deser) {
+            var content = st_data.get_current_content();
+            var msg_p = deser.deserialize(content);
+            Log.assert(msg_p.op == bts.StreamIOMessage.StreamOp.CREATE);
+            return msg_p.create_message.rows;
+
+        }
+
+        public static PublishMsg build_pub_msg(IBlueRow added_row, IBlueRow removed_row, bool is_create,
+            ref IStreamIOMsgSerializer serializer) {
+            Func<IBlueTableSchema> get_schema = () => {
+                return (added_row != null ? added_row : removed_row).schema;
+            };
+            bts.StreamIOMessage str_io_msg = null;
+            if (is_create) {
+                Log.assert(added_row != null);
+                var aux_new = new BlueTable(added_row.schema);
+                aux_new.addRow(added_row);
+                var cr_msg = new bts.StreamIOMessage.CreateMessage(aux_new);
+                str_io_msg = new bts.StreamIOMessage(cr_msg);
+            } else {
+                var schema = get_schema();
+                BlueTable added_table = new BlueTable(schema);
+                if (added_row != null)
+                    added_table.addRow(added_row);
+                BlueTable rem_table = new BlueTable(schema);
+                if (removed_row != null)
+                    rem_table.addRow(removed_row);
+                bts.StreamIOMessage.MultipleRemoveAddMessage mra_msg =
+                    new bts.StreamIOMessage.MultipleRemoveAddMessage(rem_table, added_table);
+                str_io_msg = new bts.StreamIOMessage(mra_msg);
+            }
+            byte[] msg_bytes = serializer.serialize(str_io_msg);
+            PublishMsg pub_msg = new PublishMsg() {
+                connection = "test_connection",
+                tag = $"DS_{get_schema()}",
+                tag_type = "DS",
+                data_to_publish = msg_bytes
+            };
+            return pub_msg;
+        }
+
+        public static IBlueTableSchema create_schema_with_all_types(HashSet<Type> excluded_col_map = null) {
+            excluded_col_map = excluded_col_map == null ? new HashSet<Type>() : excluded_col_map;
+            var table_name = "test_table";
+            BlueTableSchema schema = new BlueTableSchema();
+            List<ColumnInfo> cis = new List<ColumnInfo>();
+            foreach (Type t in BlueDataUtility.valid_column_types()) {
+                if (t == null || t == typeof(DateTime) || excluded_col_map.Contains(t))
+                    continue;
+                var col_name = t.ToString() + "_" + cis.Count.ToString(); // Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
+                ColumnInfo ci = new ColumnInfo(col_name, cis.Count, t);
+                cis.Add(ci);
+            }
+            cis.Add(new ColumnInfo("id", cis.Count, typeof(int)));
+            schema = new BlueTableSchema(table_name, cis.ToArray());
+            return schema;
+        }
+
+        public static IBlueRow generate_random_row(IBlueTableSchema schema, int id, bool include_dbnulls = true) {
+            Random rnd = new Random();
+            object[] row_vals = new object[schema.columnInfo.Length];
+            foreach (ColumnInfo ci in schema.columnInfo) {
+                if (ci.colName == "id") {
+                    row_vals[ci.colNo] = id;
+                    continue;
+                }
+                object v = get_random_object(ci.type_code());
+                if (include_dbnulls && rnd.NextSingle() % 4 == 0)
+                    v = DBNull.Value;
+                row_vals[ci.colNo] = v;
+            }
+            return new BlueRow(schema, row_vals);
+        }
+
+        public static object get_random_object(TypeCode type_code) {
+            Random random = new Random();
+            switch (type_code) {
+                case TypeCode.Boolean:
+                    return random.Next(2) == 0; // Random boolean value (true or false)
+                case TypeCode.Byte:
+                    return (byte)random.Next(byte.MinValue, byte.MaxValue + 1); // Random byte value
+                case TypeCode.Char:
+                    return (char)random.Next(65, 65 + 27); // Random char value
+                case TypeCode.Decimal:
+                    Decimal dec = 100.123M;
+                    return dec;
+                case TypeCode.DateTime:
+                    return DateTime.Now;
+                case TypeCode.Double:
+                    return random.NextDouble() * (double.MaxValue - double.MinValue) + double.MinValue; // Random double value
+                case TypeCode.Int16:
+                    return (short)random.Next(short.MinValue, short.MaxValue + 1); // Random short value
+                case TypeCode.Int32:
+                    return random.Next(int.MinValue, int.MaxValue); // Random int value
+                case TypeCode.Int64:
+                    return random.NextInt64(long.MinValue, long.MaxValue); // Random long value
+                case TypeCode.SByte:
+                    return (sbyte)random.Next(sbyte.MinValue, sbyte.MaxValue + 1); // Random sbyte value
+                case TypeCode.Single:
+                    return (float)(random.NextDouble() * (float.MaxValue - float.MinValue) + float.MinValue); // Random float value
+                case TypeCode.String:
+                    return Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
+                case TypeCode.UInt16:
+                    return (ushort)random.Next(ushort.MinValue, ushort.MaxValue + 1); // Random ushort value
+                case TypeCode.UInt32:
+                    return (uint)random.Next(int.MinValue, int.MaxValue) + (uint)int.MaxValue; // Random uint value
+                case TypeCode.UInt64:
+                    byte[] ulongBuffer = new byte[8];
+                    random.NextBytes(ulongBuffer);
+                    return BitConverter.ToUInt64(ulongBuffer, 0);
+                default:
+                    throw new ArgumentException($"Unsupported TypeCode: {type_code}");
+                    return null;
+            }
+        }
+        #endregion
+
+
+    }
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/Misc/TickingTestStream.cs

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+namespace BCG {
+   using System;
+
+   public class TickingTestStream : ViewStream {
+      public TickingTestStream(int ticking_period_msecs)
+      :
+      this(ViewStreamDatabase.instance, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(ticking_period_msecs)) { }
+
+      public TickingTestStream(ViewStreamDatabase vsd, TimeSpan ticking_period_msecs) {
+         ViewStream vs = new DisplayableMillisecondStream(Convert.ToInt32(ticking_period_msecs.TotalMilliseconds), 10);
+         vs = new MathStream(vs, "x=id*123 y=x*x");
+         mySetRealSource(vs);
+         //vs.onChange += _on_str_update;
+      }
+
+      // private void _on_str_update(object dp_obj) {
+      //    DataPacket dp = dp_obj as DataPacket;
+      //    IBlueTableSchema out_schema = BlueDataUtility.add_column(dp.schema, "time_txt", typeof(string));
+      //    BlueTable state = new BlueTable(out_schema);
+      //    foreach (IBlueRow r in dp.newRows) {
+      //       MutableBlueRow nr = new MutableBlueRow(out_schema, r);
+      //       DateTime time = r.get_datetime("time");
+      //       var time_txt = time.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.fff");
+      //       nr.setValue("time_txt", time_txt);
+      //       state.addRow(nr);
+      //    }
+      //    var dp_out = BlueDataUtility.build_dp_inc(state, myLastValue == null ? null : myLastValue as DataPacket);
+      //    myFireEvent(dp_out);
+      // }
+   }
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/MongoDB/MongoCollectionStream.cs

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+namespace Bts.DataStream;
+
+using BCG;
+
+using bts;
+
+using Bts.DataStreamCore;
+
+using mbts;
+
+using MongoDB.Bson;
+using MongoDB.Driver;
+
+using Spark.Core.Disposables;
+
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis;
+using System.Reactive.Subjects;
+using System.Threading;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+
+public class MongoCollectionStream : ViewStream, IObservable<DataPacket> {
+   readonly string collectionName;
+   readonly string databaseName;
+   readonly string url;
+   readonly object syncRoot = new();
+   readonly CancellationTokenSource cts = new();
+   readonly Subject<DataPacket> subject = new();
+
+   bool hasStarted = false;
+   IBlueRowFactory<BsonDocument>? rowFactory;
+   MongoClient? clientBacking;
+   IMongoDatabase? databaseBacking;
+   IMongoCollection<BsonDocument>? collectionBacking = null;
+   BlueTableImmutable? table = null;
+
+   public MongoCollectionStream(string collectionName)
+      : this(
+         collectionName,
+         Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("MONGO_DB_NAME") ?? string.Empty,
+         Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("MONGO_DB_URL") ?? string.Empty) {
+   }
+
+   public MongoCollectionStream(string collectionName, string databaseName)
+      : this(
+         collectionName,
+         databaseName,
+         Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("MONGO_DB_URL") ?? string.Empty) {
+   }
+
+   public MongoCollectionStream(string collectionName, string databaseName, string url)
+      : this(collectionName, databaseName, url, null) { }
+
+   internal MongoCollectionStream(
+      string collectionName, string databaseName, string url, IBlueRowFactory<BsonDocument>? rowFactory) {
+      this.collectionName = collectionName;
+      this.databaseName = databaseName;
+      this.url = url;
+      this.rowFactory = rowFactory;
+      mySetRealSource(new ObservableViewStream(this));
+   }
+
+   MongoClient client => clientBacking ??= new(url);
+   IMongoDatabase database => databaseBacking ??= client.GetDatabase(databaseName);
+   IMongoCollection<BsonDocument>? collection {
+      get => Volatile.Read(ref collectionBacking);
+      set => Volatile.Write(ref collectionBacking, value);
+   }
+
+   public IDisposable Subscribe(IObserver<DataPacket> observer) {
+      lock (syncRoot) {
+         if (hasStarted) {
+            if (table is not null) {
+               // The first update has already been fired. Seed observer w/ current state.
+               observer.OnNext(new DataPacket(table, table, new BlueTable(table.schema)));
+            }
+            return subject.Subscribe(observer);
+         }
+         hasStarted = true;
+      }
+      var subscription = subject.Subscribe(observer);
+      // Retrieve collection snapshot to bootstrap sequence
+      initTable().ignore();
+      // Watch changes
+      Task.Run(watchChanges);
+      return Disposable.Create(Dispose);
+
+      void Dispose() {
+         Log.Gen.info("Disposing MongoDbChangeObservable subscription");
+         subscription.Dispose();
+         cts.Cancel();
+         cts.Dispose();
+      }
+   }
+
+   protected virtual IBlueRowFactory<BsonDocument> getRowFactory(IEnumerable<BsonDocument> docs) =>
+      MongoSchemaAdaptor.InferSchema(docs);
+
+   async Task watchChanges() {
+      Log.Gen.info(
+         $"MongoCollectionStream. Watching changes. thread: {Environment.CurrentManagedThreadId}");
+      while (collection is null) {
+         await Task.Delay(100);
+      }
+      Log.notnull(collection);
+      using var cursor = collection.Watch(new ChangeStreamOptions {
+         FullDocument = ChangeStreamFullDocumentOption.UpdateLookup
+      });
+      try {
+         while (await cursor.MoveNextAsync(cts.Token)) {
+            /// Ignore while waiting for init.
+            lock (syncRoot) {
+               /// Note: <see cref="rowFactory"/> and <see cref="table"/> are initialized together
+               /// in the <see cref="initTable"/> fn since both depend on the schema, which is
+               /// inferred from the first incoming BsonDocument(s).
+               if (table is null || rowFactory is null) {
+                  continue;
+               }
+            }
+
+            var bd = table.ToDataPacketBuilder();
+            foreach (var ch in cursor.Current) {
+               var opDescJson = ch.OperationDescription?.ToJson() ?? string.Empty;
+               var updDescJson = ch.UpdateDescription?.ToJson() ?? string.Empty;
+               Log.Gen.info(
+                  $"MongoCollectionStream.watchChanges. Doc changed. type: {ch.OperationType} " +
+                  $"changes:\n\t\t{updDescJson}");
+               switch (ch.OperationType) {
+                  case ChangeStreamOperationType.Insert: {
+                        bd.AddOrUpdate(Row());
+                        break;
+                     }
+                  case ChangeStreamOperationType.Update: {
+                        bd.Remove(OldRow().Id());
+                        bd.AddOrUpdate(Row());
+                        break;
+                     }
+                  case ChangeStreamOperationType.Replace: {
+                        bd.Remove(OldRow().Id());
+                        bd.AddOrUpdate(Row());
+                        break;
+                     }
+                  case ChangeStreamOperationType.Delete: {
+                        bd.Remove(OldRow().Id());
+                        break;
+                     }
+                  default:
+                     Log.assert(false, $"Unsupported op type '{ch.OperationType}'");
+                     break;
+               }
+
+               IBlueRow Row() =>
+                  rowFactory.GetBlueRow(ch.FullDocument);
+
+               IBlueRow OldRow() =>
+                  rowFactory.GetBlueRow(ch.FullDocumentBeforeChange);
+            }
+            var dp = bd.ToDataPacket();
+            if (!dp.HasChanges()) {
+               Log.Gen.warn(
+                  $"MongoCollectionStream. Ignoring update because it didn't change any rows.");
+               continue;
+            }
+            lock (syncRoot) {
+               table = (BlueTableImmutable)dp.newRows;
+               subject.OnNext(dp);
+            }
+         }
+      } catch (TaskCanceledException ex) {
+         Log.Gen.warn(
+            $"MongoCollectionStream. 'Watch' task cancelled (this is expected if subscription was disposed). {ex}");
+      }
+   }
+
+
+   [MemberNotNull(nameof(collection))]
+   async Task initTable() {
+      collection = database.GetCollection<BsonDocument>(collectionName);
+      var cursor = collection.Find(Builders<BsonDocument>.Filter.Empty).ToCursor();
+      var docList = await cursor.ToListAsync();
+      rowFactory ??= getRowFactory(docList);
+      var firstTable = new BlueTableImmutable(rowFactory.Schema).ToDataPacketBuilder();
+      foreach (var doc in docList) {
+         var row = rowFactory.GetBlueRow(doc);
+         firstTable.AddOrUpdate(row);
+      }
+      var dp = firstTable.ToDataPacket();
+      lock (syncRoot) {
+         table = (BlueTableImmutable)dp.newRows;
+         subject.OnNext(dp);
+      }
+   }
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/MongoDB/MongoDBStream.cs

@@ -1,128 +1,133 @@
-using System;
-using System.Collections.Generic;
-using MongoDB.Driver;
-using MongoDB.Bson;
 using BCG;
 using BCG.Utilities.General;
-using ZstdSharp.Unsafe;
-using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
-using mbts.spark;
+
+using MongoDB.Bson;
+using MongoDB.Driver;
+
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Diagnostics;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using System.Threading;
+
+namespace bts {
+    // [DataStreamUserRespresentation("mongodb_sql")]
+    // public class MongoDBSQLStream : ViewStream, IWorker {
+    //     private ViewStreamDatabase _vsd;
+    //     private readonly string _connection_string, _db_name, _collection_name;
+    //     private MongoClient _client;
+    //     // make this a sorted table
+    //     private BlueTable _table;
 
 
-namespace BCG {
-    [DataStreamUserRespresentation("mongodb_sql")]
-    public class MongoDBSQLStream : ViewStream, IWorker {
-        private ViewStreamDatabase _vsd;
-        private readonly string _connection_string, _db_name, _collection_name;
-        private MongoClient _client;
-        private BlueTable _table;
+    //     // Access the database
+    //     private IMongoDatabase _database;
+    //     private IDictionary<string, int> _id_map = new Dictionary<string, int>();
+    //     // mongodb://192.168.1.80:27017
 
-        // Access the database
-        private IMongoDatabase _database;
-        private IDictionary<string, int> _id_map = new Dictionary<string, int>();
-        // mongodb://192.168.1.80:27017
+    //     public MongoDBSQLStream(string connection_string, string db_name, string collection_name)
+    //     : this(connection_string, db_name, collection_name, ViewStreamDatabase.instance) {
 
-        public MongoDBSQLStream(string connection_string, string db_name, string collection_name)
-        : this(connection_string, db_name, collection_name, ViewStreamDatabase.instance) {
+    //     }
+    //     public MongoDBSQLStream(string connection_string, string db_name, string collection_name, ViewStreamDatabase vsd) {
+    //         bts.Log.Gen.info($"MongoDBStream constructed connection_string: {connection_string} " +
+    //                                 $"db_name: {db_name}");
+    //         _connection_string = connection_string;
+    //         _db_name = db_name;
+    //         _collection_name = collection_name;
+    //         _vsd = vsd;
+    //         _client = new MongoClient(_connection_string);
+    //         _database = _client.GetDatabase(_db_name);
+    //     }
 
-        }
-        public MongoDBSQLStream(string connection_string, string db_name, string collection_name, ViewStreamDatabase vsd) {
-            bts.Log.Gen.info($"MongoDBStream constructed connection_string: {connection_string} " +
-                                    $"db_name: {db_name}");
-            _connection_string = connection_string;
-            _db_name = db_name;
-            _collection_name = collection_name;
-            _vsd = vsd;
-            _client = new MongoClient(_connection_string);
-            _database = _client.GetDatabase(_db_name);
-        }
+    //     protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber() {
+    //         MasterWorker.getInstance(false).addWorker(this, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
+    //     }
 
-        protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber() {
-            MasterWorker.getInstance(false).addWorker(this, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1));
-        }
+    //     protected override void myOnLastSubscriber() {
+    //         MasterWorker.getInstance(false).removeWorker(this);
+    //     }
 
-        protected override void myOnLastSubscriber() {
-            MasterWorker.getInstance(false).removeWorker(this);
-        }
+    //     public void doWork() {
+    //         _read_mogodb();
+    //     }
 
-        public void doWork() {
-            _read_mogodb();
-        }
+    //     private void _read_mogodb() {
+    //         var timer = Stopwatch.StartNew();
+    //         // Access the collection
+    //         IMongoCollection<BsonDocument> collection = _database.GetCollection<BsonDocument>(name: _collection_name);
 
-        private void _read_mogodb() {
-            HighPerformanceTimer timer = new HighPerformanceTimer();
-            timer.start();
-            // Access the collection
-            IMongoCollection<BsonDocument> collection = _database.GetCollection<BsonDocument>(name: _collection_name);
+    //         // Fetch all documents from the collection
+    //         var documents = collection.Find(Builders<BsonDocument>.Filter.Empty).ToCursor();
+    //         _table = _table == null ? null : new BlueTable(_table.schema);
+    //         // Iterate through the documents and print values
+    //         foreach (var document in documents.ToEnumerable()) {
+    //             bts.Log.Gen.info($"document: {document} json: {document.ToJson()}");
+    //             if (_table == null) {
+    //                 _init_table(document);
+    //             }
+    //             _add_row(document);
+    //         }
+    //         timer.Stop();
+    //         Log.Gen.info($"MongoDBStream time to read {_collection_name} {timer.ElapsedMilliseconds}ms");
+    //         timer.Restart();
+    //         var dp = BlueDataUtility.build_dp_inc(_table, myLastValue == null ? null : myLastValue as DataPacket, true);
+    //         timer.Stop();
+    //         Log.Gen.info($"MongoDBStream time to compare tables :{timer.ElapsedMilliseconds}ms");
+    //         if (dp.addedRows.Count == 0 && dp.deletedRows.Count == 0)
+    //             return;
+    //         myFireEvent(dp);
+    //     }
 
-            // Fetch all documents from the collection
-            var documents = collection.Find(Builders<BsonDocument>.Filter.Empty).ToCursor();
-            _table = _table == null ? null : new BlueTable(_table.schema);
-            // Iterate through the documents and print values
-            foreach (var document in documents.ToEnumerable()) {
-                bts.Log.Gen.info($"document: {document} json: {document.ToJson()}");
-                if (_table == null) {
-                    _init_table(document);
-                }
-                _add_row(document);
-            }
-            timer.stop();
-            bts.Log.Gen.info($"MongoDBStream time to read {_collection_name} {timer.lastIntervalTime} msecs");
-            timer.start();
-            var dp = BlueDataUtility.build_dp_inc(_table, myLastValue == null ? null : myLastValue as DataPacket, true);
-            timer.stop();
-            bts.Log.Gen.info($"MongoDBStream time to compare tables :{timer.lastIntervalTime} msecs");
-            if (dp.addedRows.Count == 0 && dp.deletedRows.Count == 0)
-                return;
-            myFireEvent(dp);
-        }
+    //     private void _init_table(BsonDocument doc_row) {
+    //         bts.Log.assert(_table == null);
+    //         List<ColumnInfo> cis = new List<ColumnInfo>();
+    //         cis.Add((new ColumnInfo("id", 0, typeof(Int32))));
+    //         foreach (var n in doc_row.Names) {
+    //             cis.Add(new ColumnInfo(n, cis.Count, typeof(string)));
+    //         }
+    //         IBlueTableSchema schema = new BlueTableSchema(cis.ToArray(), _collection_name);
+    //         _table = new BlueTable(schema);
+    //     }
 
-        private void _init_table(BsonDocument doc_row) {
-            bts.Log.assert(_table == null);
-            List<ColumnInfo> cis = new List<ColumnInfo>();
-            cis.Add((new ColumnInfo("id", 0, typeof(Int32))));
-            foreach (var n in doc_row.Names) {
-                cis.Add(new ColumnInfo(n, cis.Count, typeof(string)));
-            }
-            IBlueTableSchema schema = new BlueTableSchema(cis.ToArray(), _collection_name);
-            _table = new BlueTable(schema);
-        }
-
-        private void _add_row(BsonDocument doc) {
-            var key_val = doc["_id"];
-            var key = key_val.ToString();
-            int id;
-            if (!_id_map.TryGetValue(key, out id)) {
-                id = _id_map.Count;
-                _id_map.Add(key, id);
-            }
-            MutableBlueRow nr = new MutableBlueRow(_table.schema);
-            nr.setValue("id", id);
-            foreach (var n in doc.Names) {
-                var val = doc[n].ToString();
-                nr.setValue(n, val);
-            }
-            _table.addRow(nr);
-        }
-    }
+    //     private void _add_row(BsonDocument doc) {
+    //         var key_val = doc["_id"];
+    //         var key = key_val.ToString();
+    //         int id;
+    //         if (!_id_map.TryGetValue(key, out id)) {
+    //             id = _id_map.Count;
+    //             _id_map.Add(key, id);
+    //         }
+    //         MutableBlueRow nr = new MutableBlueRow(_table.schema);
+    //         nr.setValue("id", id);
+    //         foreach (var n in doc.Names) {
+    //             var val = doc[n].ToString();
+    //             nr.setValue(n, val);
+    //         }
+    //         _table.addRow(nr);
+    //     }
+    // }
 
     [DataStreamUserRespresentation("mongodb")]
     public class MongoDBStream : ViewStream, IWorker {
         private ViewStreamDatabase _vsd;
         private readonly string _connection_string, _db_name, _collection_name;
+        private readonly TimeSpan _poll_period;
         private MongoClient _client;
         private BlueTable _table;
+        private SyncQueue<DataPacket> _table_queue = new SyncQueue<DataPacket>();
+        private BlockingQueue _work_queue = new BlockingQueue();
 
         // Access the database
         private IMongoDatabase _database;
         private IDictionary<string, int> _id_map = new Dictionary<string, int>();
         // mongodb://192.168.1.80:27017
 
-        public MongoDBStream(string connection_string, string db_name, string collection_name)
-        : this(connection_string, db_name, collection_name, ViewStreamDatabase.instance) {
+        public MongoDBStream(string connection_string, string db_name, string collection_name, string poll_period)
+        : this(connection_string, db_name, collection_name, TimeBasedFilter.parse_duration(poll_period), ViewStreamDatabase.instance) {
 
         }
-        public MongoDBStream(string connection_string, string db_name, string collection_name, ViewStreamDatabase vsd) {
+        public MongoDBStream(string connection_string, string db_name, string collection_name, TimeSpan poll_period, ViewStreamDatabase vsd) {
             bts.Log.Gen.info($"MongoDBStream constructed connection_string: {connection_string} " +
                                     $"db_name: {db_name}");
             _connection_string = connection_string;
@@ -130,24 +135,34 @@ namespace BCG {
             _collection_name = collection_name;
             _vsd = vsd;
             _client = new MongoClient(_connection_string);
+            _poll_period = poll_period;
             _database = _client.GetDatabase(_db_name);
         }
 
         protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber() {
-            MasterWorker.getInstance(false).addWorker(this, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1));
+            _vsd.addWorker(this);
+            //MasterWorker.getInstance(false).addWorker(this, _poll_period);
         }
 
         protected override void myOnLastSubscriber() {
-            MasterWorker.getInstance(false).removeWorker(this);
+            _vsd.removeWorker(this);
+            //MasterWorker.getInstance(false).removeWorker(this);
         }
 
+        private DateTime _last_poll_time = DateTime.MinValue;
         public void doWork() {
-            _read_mogodb();
+            var now = DateTime.Now;
+            if (now - _last_poll_time > _poll_period) {
+                ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(_ => _read_mogodb());
+                _last_poll_time = DateTime.Now;
+            }
+            var dp = _table_queue.dequeue(0);
+            if (dp != null)
+                myFireEvent(dp);
         }
 
         private void _read_mogodb() {
-            HighPerformanceTimer timer = new HighPerformanceTimer();
-            timer.start();
+            var timer = Stopwatch.StartNew();
             // Access the collection
             IMongoCollection<BsonDocument> collection = _database.GetCollection<BsonDocument>(name: _collection_name);
 
@@ -156,21 +171,22 @@ namespace BCG {
             _table = _table == null ? null : new BlueTable(_table.schema);
             // Iterate through the documents and print values
             foreach (var document in documents.ToEnumerable()) {
-                bts.Log.Gen.info($"document: {document} json: {document.ToJson()}");
+                //bts.Log.Gen.info($"document: {document} json: {document.ToJson()}");
                 if (_table == null) {
                     _init_table(document);
                 }
                 _add_doc(document);
             }
-            timer.stop();
-            bts.Log.Gen.info($"MongoDBStream time to read {_collection_name} {timer.lastIntervalTime} msecs");
-            timer.start();
+            timer.Stop();
+            Log.Gen.info($"MongoDBStream time to read {_collection_name}: {timer.ElapsedMilliseconds}ms");
+            timer.Restart();
             var dp = BlueDataUtility.build_dp_inc(_table, myLastValue == null ? null : myLastValue as DataPacket, true);
-            timer.stop();
-            bts.Log.Gen.info($"MongoDBStream time to compare tables :{timer.lastIntervalTime} msecs");
+            timer.Stop();
+            Log.Gen.info($"MongoDBStream time to compare tables: {timer.ElapsedMilliseconds}ms"); ;
             if (dp.addedRows.Count == 0 && dp.deletedRows.Count == 0)
                 return;
-            myFireEvent(dp);
+            _table_queue.enqueue(dp);
+            //myFireEvent(dp);
         }
 
         private void _init_table(BsonDocument doc_row) {
@@ -209,4 +225,46 @@ namespace BCG {
         }
     }
 
-}
+    // [DataStreamUserRespresentation("mongodb_flat")]
+    // public class MongoDBFlatStream : ViewStream {
+    //     public MongoDBFlatStream(string connection_string, string db_name, string collection_name, string timestamp_col, string ttl_duration)
+    //     :
+    //     this(ViewStreamDatabase.instance, connection_string, db_name, collection_name, timestamp_col, TimeBasedFilter.parse_duration(ttl_duration)) { }
+
+    //     public MongoDBFlatStream(ViewStreamDatabase vsd, string connection_string, string db_name, string collection_name, string timestamp_col, TimeSpan ttl_duration) {
+    //         ViewStream rs = new MongoDBStream(connection_string, db_name, collection_name, vsd);
+    //         rs = new KeyValueToRelationalStream(rs, "doc_id", "key", "val");
+    //         rs = new DateStandardizationStream(rs, timestamp_col, DateConversion.ISO8601);
+    //         //rs = new TimeBasedFilterStream(vsd, rs, timestamp_col, ttl_duration);
+    //         mySetRealSource(rs);
+    //     }
+    // }
+
+
+
+    // [DataStreamUserRespresentation("newsreplay")]
+    // public class NewsReplayStream : ViewStream {
+    //     public NewsReplayStream(string connection_string, string db_name, string collection_name,
+    //                             int buffer_sz, string fire_period) :
+    //     this(ViewStreamDatabase.instance, connection_string, db_name, collection_name, buffer_sz, TimeBasedFilter.parse_duration(fire_period)) { }
+
+    //     public NewsReplayStream(ViewStreamDatabase vsd, string connection_string, string db_name, string collection_name,
+    //                             int buffer_sz, TimeSpan fire_period) {
+    //         ViewStream r;
+
+    //         r = new MongoDBStream(connection_string, db_name, collection_name, vsd);
+    //         r = new KeyValueToRelationalStream(r,
+    //                                             "doc_id",
+    //                                             "key",
+    //                                             "value");
+    //         r = new DateStandardizationStream(r,
+    //                                            "created_at",
+    //                                            "ISO8601");
+    //         r = new SnapshotReplayStream(vsd, r, "created_at", buffer_sz, fire_period);
+
+    //         mySetRealSource(r);
+    //     }
+    // }
+
+
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/MongoDB/MongoDbExtensions.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+namespace Bts.DataStream;
+
+using MongoDB.Bson;
+
+using System;
+
+public static class MongoDbExtensions {
+   public static BsonArray GetArray(this BsonDocument doc, string elementName) =>
+      doc[elementName].AsBsonArray;
+
+   public static BsonArray? GetArrayOrDefault(this BsonDocument doc, string elementName) =>
+      doc.TryGetValue(elementName, out var val) && val.IsBsonArray ?
+         val.AsBsonArray : null;
+
+   public static string GetString(this BsonDocument doc, string elementName) =>
+      doc[elementName].AsString;
+
+   public static string? GetStringOrDefault(this BsonDocument doc, string elementName) =>
+      doc.TryGetValue(elementName, out var val) && val.IsString ?
+         val.AsString : null;
+
+   public static int GetInt32(this BsonDocument doc, string elementName) =>
+      doc[elementName].AsInt32;
+
+   public static int? GetInt32OrDefault(this BsonDocument doc, string elementName) =>
+      doc.TryGetValue(elementName, out var val) && val.IsInt32 ?
+         val.AsInt32 : null;
+
+   public static long GetInt64(this BsonDocument doc, string elementName) =>
+      doc[elementName].AsInt64;
+
+   public static long? GetInt64OrDefault(this BsonDocument doc, string elementName) =>
+      doc.TryGetValue(elementName, out var val) && val.IsInt64 ?
+         val.AsInt64 : null;
+
+   public static double GetDouble(this BsonDocument doc, string elementName) =>
+      doc[elementName].AsDouble;
+
+   public static double? GetDoubleOrDefault(this BsonDocument doc, string elementName) =>
+      doc.TryGetValue(elementName, out var val) && val.IsDouble ?
+         val.AsDouble : null;
+
+   public static DateTime GetDateTime(this BsonDocument doc, string elementName) =>
+      doc[elementName].ToUniversalTime();
+
+   public static DateTime? GetDateTimeOrDefault(this BsonDocument doc, string elementName) =>
+      doc.TryGetValue(elementName, out var val) && val.IsValidDateTime ?
+         val.ToUniversalTime() : null;
+
+   public static DateTime GetTimestamp(this BsonDocument doc, string elementName) =>
+      doc[elementName].ToUniversalTime();
+
+   public static DateTime? GetTimestampOrDefault(this BsonDocument doc, string elementName) =>
+      doc.TryGetValue(elementName, out var val) && val.IsValidDateTime ?
+         val.ToUniversalTime() : null;
+
+   public static ObjectId GetObjectId(this BsonDocument doc, string elementName) =>
+      doc[elementName].AsObjectId;
+
+   public static ObjectId? GetObjectIdOrDefault(this BsonDocument doc, string elementName) =>
+      doc.TryGetValue(elementName, out var val) && val.IsObjectId ?
+         val.AsObjectId : null;
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/MongoDB/MongoSchemaAdaptor.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+namespace Bts.DataStream;
+
+using bts;
+
+using MongoDB.Bson;
+
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+
+public static class MongoSchemaAdaptor {
+   public static BlueTableSchemaAdaptor<BsonDocument> InferSchema(IEnumerable<BsonDocument> docs) {
+      var schemaAdaptor = new BlueTableSchemaAdaptor<BsonDocument>("MongoCollectionStream");
+      foreach (var doc in docs) {
+         foreach (var el in doc) {
+            if (schemaAdaptor.Contains(el.Name)) {
+               continue;
+            }
+            switch (el.Value.BsonType) {
+               case BsonType.Array:
+                  schemaAdaptor.AddColumn(el.Name, d => d.GetArrayOrDefault(el.Name)?.ToString() ?? string.Empty);
+                  break;
+               case BsonType.String:
+                  schemaAdaptor.AddColumn(el.Name, d => d.GetStringOrDefault(el.Name) ?? string.Empty);
+                  break;
+               case BsonType.Int32:
+                  schemaAdaptor.AddColumn(el.Name, d => d.GetInt32OrDefault(el.Name));
+                  break;
+               case BsonType.Int64:
+                  schemaAdaptor.AddColumn(el.Name, d => d.GetInt64OrDefault(el.Name));
+                  break;
+               case BsonType.Double:
+                  schemaAdaptor.AddColumn(el.Name, d => d.GetDoubleOrDefault(el.Name));
+                  break;
+               case BsonType.DateTime:
+                  schemaAdaptor.AddColumn(el.Name, d => d.GetDateTimeOrDefault(el.Name));
+                  break;
+               case BsonType.Timestamp:
+                  schemaAdaptor.AddColumn(el.Name, d => d.GetTimestampOrDefault(el.Name));
+                  break;
+               case BsonType.ObjectId:
+                  schemaAdaptor.AddColumn(el.Name, d => d.GetObjectIdOrDefault(el.Name)?.ToString());
+                  break;
+               case BsonType.Null:
+                  Log.Gen.warn(
+                     $"Ignoring column '{el.Name}' because at least one element is null");
+                  break;
+               default:
+                  throw new InvalidOperationException(
+                     $"Unsupported BsonType '{el.Value.BsonType}'");
+            }
+         }
+      }
+      return schemaAdaptor;
+   }
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/Project/New/NewProjectStream.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,188 @@
+namespace bts {
+   using BCG;
+
+   using ProtoBuf;
+
+   using System;
+   using System.Collections;
+   using System.Collections.Generic;
+   using System.Linq;
+
+   public class ProjectData {
+      // schema from the base stream
+      public readonly IBlueTableSchema in_schema;
+      // this is the projected schema
+      public readonly IBlueTableSchema out_schema;
+      // projected cols to the input cols, for cols who's names are changed
+      public readonly IDictionary<string, string> mapped_to_orig_col_map = new Dictionary<string, string>();
+      public ProjectData(IBlueTableSchema in_schema_, IBlueTableSchema out_schema_,
+                  IDictionary<string, string> mapped_to_orig_col_map_) {
+         in_schema = in_schema_;
+         out_schema = out_schema_;
+         mapped_to_orig_col_map = mapped_to_orig_col_map_;
+      }
+   }
+
+   public class NewProjectRow : IBlueRow {
+      #region IBlueRow members
+      private ProjectData _project_data;
+      private IBlueRow _row;
+      public NewProjectRow(ProjectData project_data, IBlueRow row) {
+         _project_data = project_data;
+         _row = row;
+      }
+      public IBlueTableSchema schema { get { return _project_data.out_schema; } }
+      #endregion
+
+      #region ICollection members
+      public int Count { get { return schema.columnNames.Length; } }
+
+      public bool IsSynchronized { get { return false; } }
+
+      public object SyncRoot { get { return this; } }
+
+      public void CopyTo(Array array, int index) {
+         int i = index;
+         foreach (object o in this as IEnumerable)
+            array.SetValue(o, i++);
+      }
+      #endregion
+
+      #region IDictionary members
+      public bool IsFixedSize { get { return true; } }
+
+      public bool IsReadOnly { get { return true; } }
+
+      public object this[object key] {
+         get {
+            if (key is string)
+               return this[(string)key];
+            return this[(int)key];
+         }
+         set { throw new NotSupportedException("The IBlueRow is readonly"); }
+      }
+
+      public object this[int index] {
+         get {
+            return this[schema.columnInfo[index].colName];
+         }
+      }
+
+      public object this[string col_name] {
+         get {
+            string mapped_to_col = null;
+            if (_project_data.mapped_to_orig_col_map.TryGetValue(col_name, out mapped_to_col)) {
+               return _row[mapped_to_col];
+            }
+            return _row[col_name];
+         }
+      }
+
+      public ICollection Keys { get { return schema.columnNames; } }
+
+      public ICollection Values {
+         get {
+            object[] retVal = new object[schema.columnNames.Length];
+            CopyTo(retVal, 0);
+            return retVal;
+         }
+      }
+
+      public void Add(object key, object value) { throw new NotSupportedException("The IBlueRow is readonly"); }
+
+      public void Clear() { throw new NotSupportedException("The IBlueRow is readonly"); }
+
+      public bool Contains(object key) { return schema[(string)key] != null; }
+
+      /// <summary>
+      /// Note, the default enumerator is the IDictionary's enumerator, so if user needs to
+      /// iterate through the values, typecast this into an IEnumerable
+      /// </summary>
+      /// <returns></returns>
+      public IDictionaryEnumerator GetEnumerator() { return new BlueRowDictionaryEnumerator(this); }
+
+      IEnumerator IEnumerable.GetEnumerator() { return new BlueRowEnumerator(this); }
+
+      public void Remove(object key) { throw new NotSupportedException("The IBlueRow is readonly"); }
+      #endregion
+
+   }
+
+   public class NewProjectStream : ViewStream, IStreamMapper {
+
+      private ViewStream _stream;
+      private string _project_expression;
+      private ProjectData _project_data = null;
+      //public ProjectData 
+      public NewProjectStream(ViewStream vs, string project_expression) {
+         _stream = vs;
+         _project_expression = project_expression;
+         _stream = new MapStream(vs, this);
+         mySetRealSource(_stream);
+      }
+
+      public IBlueTableSchema getOutputSchema(IBlueTableSchema input_schema) {
+         _project_data = _create_project_data(input_schema, _project_expression);
+         return _project_data.out_schema;
+      }
+
+      public IBlueRow map(IBlueRow row) {
+         return new NewProjectRow(_project_data, row);
+      }
+
+      private static ProjectData _create_project_data(IBlueTableSchema input_schema,
+                                                      string project_expression) {
+         project_expression = project_expression.Trim();
+         string[] project_toks = project_expression.Split(' ');
+         HashSet<string> removed_cols = new HashSet<string>();
+         Dictionary<string, string> mapped_to_orig_map = new Dictionary<string, string>();
+         Dictionary<string, string> orig_to_mapped = new Dictionary<string, string>();
+         foreach (string p_tok in project_toks) {
+            if (p_tok.StartsWith("!")) {
+               string removed_col = p_tok.Substring(1);
+               removed_cols.Add(removed_col);
+            } else if (p_tok.Contains(":")) {
+               string[] map_toks = p_tok.Split(":");
+               string orig_col = map_toks[0];
+               string mapped_col = map_toks[1];
+               mapped_to_orig_map.Add(mapped_col, orig_col);
+               orig_to_mapped.Add(orig_col, mapped_col);
+            } else {
+               if (input_schema.columnNames.Contains(p_tok)) {
+                  string orig_col = p_tok;
+                  string mapped_col = orig_col;
+                  orig_to_mapped.Add(orig_col, mapped_col);
+               }
+            }
+         }
+         // make the new schema
+         List<ColumnInfo> new_cols = new List<ColumnInfo>();
+         foreach (ColumnInfo ci in input_schema.columnInfo) {
+            if (ci.colName == "id") {
+               // if there's a hidden col, other columns will show by default, but if cols are being
+               // projected epxlicitely, than others wil be hidden
+               ColumnInfo nc = new ColumnInfo(ci.colName, new_cols.Count, ci.colType);
+               new_cols.Add(nc);
+               continue;
+            }
+            if (removed_cols.Contains(ci.colName)) {
+               continue;
+            } else if (orig_to_mapped.ContainsKey(ci.colName)) {
+               string mapped_name = orig_to_mapped[ci.colName];
+               ColumnInfo nc = new ColumnInfo(mapped_name, new_cols.Count, ci.colType);
+               new_cols.Add(nc);
+            } else {
+               if (ci.colName == "id" || removed_cols.Count > 0) {
+                  // if there's a hidden col, other columns will show by default, but if cols are being
+                  // projected epxlicitely, than others wil be hidden
+                  ColumnInfo nc = new ColumnInfo(ci.colName, new_cols.Count, ci.colType);
+                  new_cols.Add(nc);
+               }
+            }
+         }
+         IBlueTableSchema new_schema = new BlueTableSchema(input_schema.tableName, new_cols.ToArray());
+         return new ProjectData(input_schema, new_schema, mapped_to_orig_map);
+      }
+
+   }
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/Project/ProjectStream.cs

@@ -1,20 +1,17 @@
 namespace BCG {
-   using mbts.spark;
-
    using Spark.Core.Collections;
 
-   using System;
    using System.Collections;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Linq;
 
+   [DataStreamUserRespresentation("oldproject")]
    public class ProjectStream : ViewStream
    {
       private ProjectHelper myHelper;
       private string myColExp, myTableName;
       private ViewStream myVs;
       private IDictionary<string, string> myDic;
-      private HighPerformanceTimer _timer = new();
       /// <summary>
       /// </summary>
       /// <param name="vs">stream to susbsribe to as the input stream</param>
@@ -70,10 +67,8 @@ namespace BCG {
          DataPacket dp = newValue as DataPacket;
          if (myHelper != null)
          {
-            _timer.start();
             IBlueRowCollection dels, adds;
             BlueDataUtility.getTrueDeletesAndAdds (dp.deletedRows, dp.addedRows, out dels, out adds, myHelper.relevantOrigCols);
-            _timer.stop();
             if (dels.Count + adds.Count > 0)
                myFireEvent (new DataPacket (new ProjectedTable (dp.newRows, myHelper),
                                             new ProjectedTable (adds, myHelper),

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/SideEffectStreams/SchemaGuesserStream.cs

@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ namespace bts {
             var dp_out = BlueDataUtility.build_dp_inc(_rows, myLastValue as DataPacket);
             myFireEvent(dp_out);
 
-
         }
 
 

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/Sort/SortRow.cs

@@ -69,18 +69,14 @@ public class SortRow : IComparable, IBlueRow {
    /// The key can either be the string corrsponding to the column name or
    /// the order of the column
    /// </summary>
-   public object this[object key] {
-      get {
-         if (key is string)
-            return this[(string)key];
-         return this[(int)key];
-      }
-      set { throw new NotSupportedException("The IBlueRow is readonly"); }
+   public object? this[object key] {
+      get => key is string str ? this[str] : this[(int)key];
+      set => throw new NotSupportedException("The IBlueRow is readonly");
    }
 
-   public object this[int index] => row[index];
+   public object? this[int index] => row[index];
 
-   public object this[string colName] => row[colName];
+   public object? this[string colName] => row[colName];
 
    public ICollection Keys => row.Keys;
 

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/StaticCollectionStream/MutableStream.cs

@@ -22,9 +22,12 @@ namespace BCG
       /// <param name="rows"></param>
       public void loadCollection (IBlueRowCollection rows)
       {
-         myFireEvent (new DataPacket (rows, new BlueTable(rows), 
-            myLastValue != null ?
-            new BlueTable((myLastValue as DataPacket).newRows) : new BlueTable (rows.schema)));
+         myFireEvent(new DataPacket(
+            rows,
+            new BlueTable(rows), 
+            myLastValue is DataPacket dp
+               ? new BlueTable(dp.newRows)
+               : new BlueTable(rows.schema)));
       }
 
       /// <summary>

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/ThreadSafe/VSDBMarshallerStream.cs

@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ namespace BCG
          public Guid subscription;
       }
       private ThreadSafeQueue<Update> _queued_updates;
-      TargetDoWorkRelay _do_work_relay;
+      TargetDoWorkRelay? _do_work_relay;
       Guid _current_source_subscription;
       Guid _current_target_subscription;
       int _source_thread;

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/Time/DateStandardizationStream.cs

@@ -3,24 +3,23 @@ using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Text;
 
 
-namespace BCG
-{
+namespace BCG {
    /// <summary>
    /// If one adds annother value to this enum, be sure to update _date_conversion_to_type_map below as well
    /// </summary>
-   public enum DateConversion
-   {
+   public enum DateConversion {
       ConvertDoubleToDateTime = 0,
       ChopTime,
       UTCToCurrent,
       ConvertStringToDateTime,
       ConvertDateTimeToMilliseconds,
-      SecondsOfDay
+      SecondsOfDay,
+      ISO8601,
+      EpochToDatetime
    }
 
    [DataStreamUserRespresentation("dateStandardize")]
-   public class DateStandardizationStream : ViewStream, IStreamMapper
-   {
+   public class DateStandardizationStream : ViewStream, IStreamMapper {
       private IBlueTableSchema mySchema;
       private DateConversion myConversion;
       private string myConversionColName;
@@ -31,12 +30,13 @@ namespace BCG
          {DateConversion.UTCToCurrent                 , typeof(DateTime)},
          {DateConversion.ConvertStringToDateTime      , typeof(DateTime)},
          {DateConversion.ConvertDateTimeToMilliseconds, typeof(Double)},
-         {DateConversion.SecondsOfDay                 , typeof(Double)}
+         {DateConversion.SecondsOfDay                 , typeof(Double)},
+         {DateConversion.ISO8601                      , typeof(DateTime)},
+         {DateConversion.EpochToDatetime              , typeof(DateTime)}
       };
 
 
-      private static DateConversion _parse(string s)
-      {
+      private static DateConversion _parse(string s) {
          DateConversion rv = DateConversion.ChopTime;
          Enum.TryParse<DateConversion>(s, false, out rv);
          return rv;
@@ -45,11 +45,9 @@ namespace BCG
       /// for DSQA
       /// </summary>
       public DateStandardizationStream(ViewStream vs, string colName, string conversion)
-         : this(vs, colName, _parse(conversion))
-      { }
+         : this(vs, colName, _parse(conversion)) { }
 
-      public DateStandardizationStream(ViewStream vs, string colName, DateConversion conversion)
-      {
+      public DateStandardizationStream(ViewStream vs, string colName, DateConversion conversion) {
          myConversionColName = colName;
          myConversion = conversion;
          mySetRealSource(new MapStream(vs, this));
@@ -57,24 +55,18 @@ namespace BCG
 
       #region IStreamMapper Members
 
-      public IBlueTableSchema getOutputSchema(IBlueTableSchema inputSchema)
-      {
-         if (mySchema == null)
-         {
+      public IBlueTableSchema getOutputSchema(IBlueTableSchema inputSchema) {
+         if (mySchema == null) {
             List<ColumnInfo> cis = new List<ColumnInfo>();
-            foreach (ColumnInfo c in inputSchema.columnInfo)
-            {
-               if (c.colName == myConversionColName)
-               {
+            foreach (ColumnInfo c in inputSchema.columnInfo) {
+               if (c.colName == myConversionColName) {
                   Type convType;
-                  if (!_date_conversion_to_type_map.TryGetValue(myConversion, out convType))
-                  {
+                  if (!_date_conversion_to_type_map.TryGetValue(myConversion, out convType)) {
                      //BCG.Utilities.BlueEventLog.logEvent("Please update the _date_conversion_to_type_map in DateStandardizationStream.cs.", BCG.Utilities.BlueEventLevel.Error);
                      convType = typeof(DateTime);
                   }
                   cis.Add(new ColumnInfo(c.colName, c.colNo, convType));
-               }
-               else
+               } else
                   cis.Add(new ColumnInfo(c.colName, c.colNo, c.colType));
             }
             mySchema = new BlueTableSchema(inputSchema.tableName, cis.ToArray());
@@ -86,56 +78,59 @@ namespace BCG
 
       #region IDynamicStreamMapper Members
 
-      public IBlueRow map(IBlueRow row)
-      {
-         return BlueDataUtility.getNewReplacedRow(row, mapDateTime(row[myConversionColName], myConversion), myConversionColName);
+      public IBlueRow map(IBlueRow row) {
+         MutableBlueRow rv = new MutableBlueRow(getOutputSchema(row.schema), row);
+         rv.setValue(myConversionColName, mapDateTime(row[myConversionColName], myConversion));
+         return rv;
+         //return BlueDataUtility.getNewReplacedRow(row, mapDateTime(row[myConversionColName], myConversion), myConversionColName);
       }
 
       #endregion
 
-      public static object mapDateTime(object objIn, DateConversion conv)
-      {
-         if (objIn == DBNull.Value || objIn == null)
-         {
+      public static object mapDateTime(object obj_in, DateConversion conv) {
+         if (obj_in == DBNull.Value || obj_in == null) {
             return DBNull.Value;
-         }
-         else
-         {
-            if (conv == DateConversion.ChopTime)
-            {
-               DateTime dtIn = (DateTime)objIn;
-               return dtIn.Date;
-            }
-            else if (conv == DateConversion.ConvertDoubleToDateTime)
-            {
-               double dtIn = (double)objIn;
-               return DateTime.FromOADate(dtIn);
-            }
-            else if (conv == DateConversion.UTCToCurrent)
-            {
-               DateTime dtIn = (DateTime)objIn;
-               return dtIn.ToLocalTime();
-            }
-            else if (conv == DateConversion.ConvertStringToDateTime)
-            {
-               return DateTime.Parse((string)objIn);
-            }
-            else if (conv == DateConversion.ConvertDateTimeToMilliseconds)
-            {
-               DateTime dtIn = (DateTime)objIn;
-               return dtIn.TimeOfDay.TotalMilliseconds;
-            }
-            else if (conv == DateConversion.SecondsOfDay)
-            {
-               DateTime dtIn = (DateTime)objIn;
-               DateTime start_of_day = dtIn.Date;
-               TimeSpan day_period = dtIn - start_of_day;
-               return day_period.TotalSeconds;
-            }
-            else
-            {
-               bts.Log.Gen.info("incorrect type");
-               return null;
+         } else {
+            switch (conv) {
+               case DateConversion.ChopTime: {
+                     DateTime dtIn = (DateTime)obj_in;
+                     return dtIn.Date;
+                  }
+               case DateConversion.ConvertDoubleToDateTime: {
+                     double dtIn = (double)obj_in;
+                     return DateTime.FromOADate(dtIn);
+                  }
+               case DateConversion.UTCToCurrent: {
+                     DateTime dtIn = (DateTime)obj_in;
+                     return dtIn.ToLocalTime();
+                  }
+               case DateConversion.ConvertStringToDateTime: {
+                     return DateTime.Parse((string)obj_in);
+                  }
+               case DateConversion.ConvertDateTimeToMilliseconds: {
+                     DateTime dtIn = (DateTime)obj_in;
+                     return dtIn.TimeOfDay.TotalMilliseconds;
+                  }
+               case DateConversion.SecondsOfDay: {
+                     DateTime dtIn = (DateTime)obj_in;
+                     DateTime start_of_day = dtIn.Date;
+                     TimeSpan day_period = dtIn - start_of_day;
+                     return day_period.TotalSeconds;
+                  }
+               case DateConversion.ISO8601: {
+                     string iso8601Date = obj_in.ToString();
+                     return DateTime.Parse(iso8601Date, null, System.Globalization.DateTimeStyles.RoundtripKind);
+                  }
+               case DateConversion.EpochToDatetime: {
+                     double d = Convert.ToDouble(obj_in);
+                     long unix_time_seconds = (long)d;
+                     DateTime epoch = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
+                     return epoch.AddSeconds(unix_time_seconds);
+                  }
+               default: {
+                     bts.Log.Gen.info("incorrect type");
+                     return DBNull.Value;
+                  }
             }
          }
       }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/Time/MillisecondStream.cs

@@ -1,29 +1,71 @@
 using System;
 
-namespace BCG
-{
-   public class MSecondStream : TimeUnitStream 
-   {
-      public MSecondStream (int intervalInms, int size)
-         : base (DateTime.Now, new TimeSpan (0, 0, 0, 0, intervalInms), size, ViewStreamDatabase.instance)
-      {}
+using BCG.Utilities.General;
 
-      protected override DateTime myRoundTime (DateTime dt) {return dt;}
+using bts;
+
+namespace BCG {
+   [DataStreamUserRespresentation("milliseconds")]
+   public class MillisecondStream : ViewStream, IWorker {
+      private DateTime _last_fire_time = DateTime.MinValue;
+      private readonly TimeSpan _period;
+      private readonly int _size;
+      private readonly ViewStreamDatabase _vsd;
+      private IBlueTableSchema _schema;
+      private bts.CircularBufferTable _table;
+
+      public MillisecondStream(int interval_msecs, int size)
+      : this(ViewStreamDatabase.instance, interval_msecs, size) {
+      }
+
+      public MillisecondStream(ViewStreamDatabase vsd, int interval_msecs, int size) {
+         _vsd = vsd;
+         _period = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(interval_msecs);
+         _size = size;
+         _schema = BlueDataUtility.form_schema("Milliseconds",
+               Tuple.Create("id", TypeCode.Int32),
+               Tuple.Create("time", TypeCode.DateTime),
+               Tuple.Create("display_time", TypeCode.String));
+         _table = new CircularBufferTable(_schema, _size);
+      }
+
+      protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber() {
+         _vsd.addWorker(this);
+      }
+
+      protected override void myOnLastSubscriber() {
+         _vsd.removeWorker(this);
+      }
+
+      private int _id = 0;
+      public void doWork() {
+         if (DateTime.Now - _last_fire_time >= _period) {
+            _last_fire_time = DateTime.Now;
+            IBlueRow nr = new BlueRow(_schema, _id++, _last_fire_time,
+            _last_fire_time.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.fff"));
+            _table.add_row(nr);
+            var dp = BlueDataUtility.build_dp_inc(_table, myLastValue as DataPacket);
+            myFireEvent(dp);
+         }
+      }
+   }
+   public class MSecondStream : TimeUnitStream {
+      public MSecondStream(int intervalInms, int size)
+         : base(DateTime.Now, new TimeSpan(0, 0, 0, 0, intervalInms), size, ViewStreamDatabase.instance) { }
+
+      protected override DateTime myRoundTime(DateTime dt) { return dt; }
    }
 
-   public class DisplayableMillisecondStream : ViewStream, IStreamMapper
-   {
-      private IBlueTableSchema mySchema = new BlueTableSchema ("ms",
-                                                               new ColumnInfo ("id", 0, typeof(int)),
-                                                               new ColumnInfo ("time", 1, typeof(string)));
-      public DisplayableMillisecondStream (int intervalInMs, int sz)
-      {
-         mySetRealSource (new MapStream (new MSecondStream (intervalInMs, sz), this));
+   public class DisplayableMillisecondStream : ViewStream, IStreamMapper {
+      private IBlueTableSchema mySchema = new BlueTableSchema("ms",
+                                                               new ColumnInfo("id", 0, typeof(int)),
+                                                               new ColumnInfo("time", 1, typeof(string)));
+      public DisplayableMillisecondStream(int intervalInMs, int sz) {
+         mySetRealSource(new MapStream(new MSecondStream(intervalInMs, sz), this));
       }
       #region IStreamMapper Members
 
-      public IBlueTableSchema getOutputSchema(IBlueTableSchema inputSchema)
-      {
+      public IBlueTableSchema getOutputSchema(IBlueTableSchema inputSchema) {
          return mySchema;
       }
 
@@ -31,15 +73,15 @@ namespace BCG
 
       #region IDynamicStreamMapper Members
 
-      public IBlueRow map (IBlueRow row)
-      {
-         return new BlueRow (mySchema, row["id"], myToString ((DateTime)row["time"]));
+      public IBlueRow map(IBlueRow row) {
+         DateTime time = row.get_datetime("time");
+         var time_txt = time.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.fff");
+         return new BlueRow(mySchema, row["id"], time_txt);
       }
 
       #endregion
 
-      private string myToString (DateTime dt)
-      {
+      private string myToString(DateTime dt) {
          string sep = ":";
          return dt.Hour + sep + dt.Minute + sep + dt.Second + sep + dt.Millisecond;
       }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/Union/AlphabetizeColumnsStream.cs

@@ -8,38 +8,36 @@ namespace BCG {
       private ViewStream mySrc;
       private IBlueTableSchema mySchema = null;
 
-      public AlphabetizeColumnsStream (ViewStream src) {
+      public AlphabetizeColumnsStream(ViewStream src) {
          mySrc = src;
       }
-      protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber()
-      {
+      protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber() {
          mySrc.onChange += new ChangeDelegate(mySrc_onChange);
       }
-      protected override void myOnLastSubscriber () 
-      {
-         mySrc.onChange -= new ChangeDelegate (mySrc_onChange);
+      protected override void myOnLastSubscriber() {
+         mySrc.onChange -= new ChangeDelegate(mySrc_onChange);
       }
-      private void mySrc_onChange (object newValue) {
+      private void mySrc_onChange(object newValue) {
          DataPacket dp = (DataPacket)newValue;
          if (mySchema == null) {
-            SortedList alphabetical = new SortedList ();
+            SortedList alphabetical = new SortedList();
             foreach (ColumnInfo cinfo in dp.newRows.schema.columnInfo)
-               alphabetical.Add (cinfo.colName,cinfo);
+               alphabetical.Add(cinfo.colName, cinfo);
             ColumnInfo[] cinfos = new ColumnInfo[alphabetical.Count];
-            alphabetical.Values.CopyTo (cinfos,0);
+            alphabetical.Values.CopyTo(cinfos, 0);
             for (int i = 0; i < cinfos.Length; ++i)
-               cinfos[i] = new ColumnInfo (cinfos[i].colName,i,cinfos[i].colType,cinfos[i].colValue);
-            mySchema = new BlueTableSchema (cinfos,dp.schema.tableName);
+               cinfos[i] = new ColumnInfo(cinfos[i].colName, i, cinfos[i].colType);
+            mySchema = new BlueTableSchema(cinfos, dp.schema.tableName);
          }
          BlueTable
-            deleted = new BlueTable (mySchema),
-            added = new BlueTable (mySchema),
-            newrows = new BlueTable (mySchema);
-         deleted.addRows (dp.deletedRows);
-         added.addRows (dp.addedRows);
-         newrows.addRows (dp.newRows);
-      
-         myFireEvent (new DataPacket (newrows,added,deleted));
+            deleted = new BlueTable(mySchema),
+            added = new BlueTable(mySchema),
+            newrows = new BlueTable(mySchema);
+         deleted.addRows(dp.deletedRows);
+         added.addRows(dp.addedRows);
+         newrows.addRows(dp.newRows);
+
+         myFireEvent(new DataPacket(newrows, added, deleted));
       }
    }
 }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Primitives/Union/MutableAppendStream.cs

@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
-using System.Text;
 using mbts;
-using mbts.spark;
 
 namespace BCG
 {
@@ -183,7 +181,6 @@ namespace BCG
    /// </summary>
    public class MutableAppendStream : ViewStream
    {
-      HighPerformanceTimer _timer = new HighPerformanceTimer();
       private bool mySubscriptionActive = false;
       private MutableAppendTable myTable;
       private int myMovingIndex;
@@ -272,7 +269,6 @@ namespace BCG
       private void myHandleStreamChanges(object newValue)
       {         
          DataPacket dp = newValue as DataPacket;
-         _timer.start();
          myTable = myTable ?? new MutableAppendTable(new BlueTableSchema("MutableAppend", dp.schema.columnInfo));
          BlueTable adds = new BlueTable(myTable.schema),
                      dels = new BlueTable(myTable.schema);
@@ -287,7 +283,6 @@ namespace BCG
             IBlueRow nr = myTable.addRow(r, index);
             adds.addRow(nr);
          }
-         _timer.stop();
          myFireEvent(new DataPacket(myTable, adds, dels));
       }
    }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Publish/CircularPublisher.cs

@@ -1,71 +1,61 @@
 using System;
 
-namespace BCG
-{
+namespace BCG {
    /// <summary>
    /// Publishes the rows in the form of a circular buffer, ie if the buffer size is n
    /// then the n'th row being puclished results in the deletion of the 0th row
    /// </summary>
-	public class CircularPublisher
-	{
+	public class CircularPublisher {
       private CircularRowCollection myBuffer;
       private PubTableBroker myBroker;
       private int myBufferSize;
-		public CircularPublisher (int bufferSize)
-		{
+      public CircularPublisher(int bufferSize) {
          myBufferSize = bufferSize;
-		}
-
-      public CircularPublisher (int bufferSize, IBlueRowCollection rows) 
-         : this (bufferSize)
-      {
-         publishRows (rows);
       }
 
-      public void publishRow (IBlueRow nr)
-      {
-         if (myBuffer == null)
-         {           
-            myBuffer = new CircularRowCollection (
-               new BlueTableSchema (nr.schema.tableName, nr.schema.columnInfo), 
-               myBufferSize);
-            myBroker = new PubTableBroker ();
-            myBroker.createTable (myBuffer);
-         }
-         IBlueRow br = myBuffer.addRowWithReturn (nr);
-         myBroker.makeBatchChanges (myBuffer, 
-            myReturnCollection (br),
-            myReturnCollection (nr));
+      public CircularPublisher(int bufferSize, IBlueRowCollection rows)
+         : this(bufferSize) {
+         publishRows(rows);
       }
 
-      public void publishRows (IBlueRowCollection nrs)
-      {
-         if (myBuffer == null)
-         {           
-            myBuffer = new CircularRowCollection (
-               new BlueTableSchema (BlueDataUtility.extractRow (nrs, 0).schema.tableName, 
-               BlueDataUtility.extractRow (nrs, 0).schema.columnInfo),
+      public void publishRow(IBlueRow nr) {
+         if (myBuffer == null) {
+            myBuffer = new CircularRowCollection(
+               new BlueTableSchema(nr.schema.tableName, nr.schema.columnInfo),
                myBufferSize);
-            myBroker = new PubTableBroker ();
-            myBroker.createTable (myBuffer);
+            myBroker = new PubTableBroker();
+            myBroker.create_table(myBuffer);
          }
-         BlueTable deletes = new BlueTable (myBuffer.schema);
-         foreach (IBlueRow nr in nrs)
-         {
-            IBlueRow dr = myBuffer.addRowWithReturn (nr);
+         IBlueRow br = myBuffer.addRowWithReturn(nr);
+         myBroker.make_batch_changes(myBuffer,
+            myReturnCollection(br),
+            myReturnCollection(nr));
+      }
+
+      public void publishRows(IBlueRowCollection nrs) {
+         if (myBuffer == null) {
+            myBuffer = new CircularRowCollection(
+               new BlueTableSchema(BlueDataUtility.extractRow(nrs, 0).schema.tableName,
+               BlueDataUtility.extractRow(nrs, 0).schema.columnInfo),
+               myBufferSize);
+            myBroker = new PubTableBroker();
+            myBroker.create_table(myBuffer);
+         }
+         BlueTable deletes = new BlueTable(myBuffer.schema);
+         foreach (IBlueRow nr in nrs) {
+            IBlueRow dr = myBuffer.addRowWithReturn(nr);
             if (dr != null)
-               deletes.addRow (dr);
+               deletes.addRow(dr);
          }
-         myBroker.makeBatchChanges (myBuffer, deletes, nrs);
+         myBroker.make_batch_changes(myBuffer, deletes, nrs);
       }
 
-      private IBlueRowCollection myReturnCollection (IBlueRow r)
-      {
+      private IBlueRowCollection myReturnCollection(IBlueRow r) {
          if (r == null)
-            return new BlueTable (myBuffer.schema);
-         BlueTable retVal = new BlueTable (r.schema);
-         retVal.addRow (r);
+            return new BlueTable(myBuffer.schema);
+         BlueTable retVal = new BlueTable(r.schema);
+         retVal.addRow(r);
          return retVal;
       }
-	}
+   }
 }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Publish/PubTableBroker.cs

@@ -1,184 +0,0 @@
-using System;
-using System.Collections;
-using System.Collections.Generic;
-using System.Linq.Expressions;
-using System.Xml.Serialization;
-
-using BCG.Utilities;
-
-namespace BCG {
-   /// <summary>
-   /// This class will be used by the clients to publish tabular data to the pubsub
-   /// </summary>
-   public class PubTableBroker {
-      protected PublisherCore _publisher_core;
-      protected IDictionary<string, IPubTablePublisher> _publisher_map = new Dictionary<string, IPubTablePublisher>();
-      protected Dictionary<string, IBlueTableSchema> _schema_map = new Dictionary<string, IBlueTableSchema>();
-
-      protected bool myWaitingForFirstOp = false;
-
-      public PubTableBroker()
-         : this(new PublisherCore()) { }
-
-      public PubTableBroker(PublisherCore publisher) { _publisher_core = publisher; }
-
-      public PubTableBroker(IBlueRowCollection[] tablesToPublish)
-         : this(new PublisherCore(), tablesToPublish) { }
-
-      public PubTableBroker(PublisherCore publisher, IBlueRowCollection[] tablesToPublish) {
-         _publisher_core = publisher;
-
-         _publisher_core.beginTransaction();
-         foreach (IBlueRowCollection table in tablesToPublish)
-            createTable(table);
-         _publisher_core.commitTransaction();
-      }
-
-      public void beginTransaction() {
-         myWaitingForFirstOp = true;
-      }
-
-      public void commitTransaction() {
-         bts.Log.Gen.info("PubTableBroker.commitTransaction");
-         if (myWaitingForFirstOp)
-            myWaitingForFirstOp = false;
-         else
-            _publisher_core.commitTransaction();
-      }
-
-      public void rollbackTransaction() {
-         bts.Log.Gen.info("PubTableBroker.rollbackTransaction");
-         if (myWaitingForFirstOp)
-            myWaitingForFirstOp = false;
-         else
-            _publisher_core.abortTransaction();
-      }
-
-      public virtual void createTable(IBlueRowCollection newTable) {
-         string log_msg = $"PubTableBroker.createTable table: {newTable.schema.tableName}\n";
-         foreach (IBlueRow r in newTable) {
-            log_msg += $"id: {r["id"]}";
-         }
-         bts.Log.Gen.info(log_msg);
-         _check_schema_consistency(newTable.schema);
-         myCheckTransaction();
-         IPubTablePublisher table_publisher = null;
-         var name_key = newTable.schema.tableName.ToLower();
-         if (!_publisher_map.TryGetValue(name_key, out table_publisher)) {
-            table_publisher = _create_pubtable_publisher(name_key);
-            _publisher_map.Add(name_key, table_publisher);
-            _schema_map.Add(name_key, newTable.schema);
-         }
-         table_publisher.createTable(newTable);
-      }
-
-      /// <summary>
-      /// If a table has not been created with the same instance of a PubTableBroker an ApplicationException
-      /// will be thrown
-      /// </summary>
-      /// <param name="r"></param>
-      public virtual void addRow(IBlueRow r) {
-         string log_msg = $"PubTableBroker.addRow table: {r.schema.tableName} id: {r["id"]}";
-         bts.Log.Gen.info(log_msg);
-         _check_schema_consistency(r.schema);
-         myCheckTransaction();
-         IPubTablePublisher table_publisher = null;
-         var name_key = r.schema.tableName.ToLower();
-         if (!_publisher_map.TryGetValue(name_key, out table_publisher))
-            throw new ApplicationException("Row can not be added, as the table that has not been created yet");
-         else
-            table_publisher.addRow(r);
-      }
-
-      /// <summary>
-      /// If a table has not been created with the same instance of a PubTableBroker an ApplicationException
-      /// will be thrown
-      /// </summary>
-      /// <param name="r"></param>
-      public virtual void deleteRow(IBlueRow r) {
-         string log_msg = $"PubTableBroker.deleteRow table: {r.schema.tableName} id: {r["id"]}";
-         bts.Log.Gen.info(log_msg);
-         _check_schema_consistency(r.schema);
-         myCheckTransaction();
-         IPubTablePublisher table_publisher = null;
-         var name_key = r.schema.tableName.ToLower();
-         if (!_publisher_map.TryGetValue(name_key, out table_publisher))
-            throw new ApplicationException("Row can not be removed, as the table has not been created yet");
-         else
-            table_publisher.deleteRow(r);
-      }
-
-      /// <summary>
-      /// If a table has not been created with the same instance of a PubTableBroker an ApplicationException
-      /// will be thrown
-      /// </summary>
-      /// <param name="r"></param>
-      public virtual void changeRow(IBlueRow r) {
-         string log_msg = $"PubTableBroker.changeRow table: {r.schema.tableName} id: {r["id"]}";
-         bts.Log.Gen.info(log_msg);
-         _check_schema_consistency(r.schema);
-         myCheckTransaction();
-         IPubTablePublisher table_publisher = null;
-         var name_key = r.schema.tableName.ToLower();
-         if (!_publisher_map.TryGetValue(name_key, out table_publisher))
-            throw new ApplicationException("Row can not be changed, as the table has not been created yet");
-         else
-            table_publisher.changeRow(r);
-      }
-
-      /// <summary>
-      /// If a table has not been created with the same instance of a PubTableBroker an ApplicationException
-      /// will be thrown
-      /// </summary>
-      /// <param name="r"></param>
-      public virtual void makeBatchChanges(IBlueRowCollection newRows,
-                                             IBlueRowCollection deletedRows,
-                                             IBlueRowCollection addedRows) {
-         string log_msg = $"PubTableBroker.makeBatchChanges {deletedRows.Count} {addedRows.Count} table: {newRows.schema.tableName} deleted_rows: ";
-         foreach (IBlueRow r in deletedRows)
-            log_msg += $"id: {r["id"]} ";
-         log_msg += "addedRows: ";
-         foreach (IBlueRow r in addedRows)
-            log_msg += $"id: {r["id"]}";
-         bts.Log.Gen.info(log_msg);
-         _check_schema_consistency(newRows.schema);
-         _check_schema_consistency(deletedRows.schema);
-         _check_schema_consistency(addedRows.schema);
-         IPubTablePublisher table_publisher = null;
-         var name_key = newRows.schema.tableName.ToLower();
-         if (!_publisher_map.TryGetValue(name_key, out table_publisher))
-            throw new ApplicationException("Batch changes can not be made, as the table has not been created yet");
-         else
-            table_publisher.batchRemoveAdd(deletedRows, addedRows);
-      }
-
-      public virtual void deleteTableRows(string tableName) {
-         myCheckTransaction();
-         (_publisher_map[tableName.ToLower()] as IPubTablePublisher).createTable(
-            new BlueTable(_schema_map[tableName.ToLower()] as IBlueTableSchema));
-      }
-
-      public int getNumberOfWaitingMessages() { return _publisher_core.getNumberOfWaitingMessages(); }
-
-      public void clearTable(string tableName) { _publisher_core.clearState(PubStreamPrefixer.prefix(tableName)); }
-
-      protected void myCheckTransaction() {
-         if (myWaitingForFirstOp)
-            _publisher_core.beginTransaction();
-         myWaitingForFirstOp = false;
-      }
-
-      protected virtual IPubTablePublisher _create_pubtable_publisher(string tag) {
-         bts.Log.Gen.info($"PubTableBroker._create_pubtable_publisher tag: {tag}");
-         return new PubTablePublisher(tag, _publisher_core);
-      }
-
-      private void _check_schema_consistency(IBlueTableSchema schema_arg) {
-         IBlueTableSchema schema;
-         if (_schema_map.TryGetValue(schema_arg.tableName, out schema)) {
-            bts.Log.assert(BlueDataUtility.compareSchemas(schema, schema_arg));
-         }
-      }
-
-   }
-}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Publish/PublisherStream.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+namespace BCG {
+   // this for testing purposes mainly, its wraps a ViewPublisher around a stream, 
+   // and hence epublishes it out to the PS
+   public class PublisherStream : ViewStream {
+      private readonly ViewStream _main_stream;
+      private readonly string _name;
+      private ViewPublisher _vs_publisher;
+      private readonly PubTableBroker _broker = new PubTableBroker();
+
+      public PublisherStream(ViewStream main_stream, string name) {
+         _main_stream = main_stream;
+         _name = name;
+      }
+
+      protected override void myOnFirstSubscriber() {
+         _vs_publisher = new ViewPublisher(_name, _broker, _main_stream);
+         _main_stream.onChange += new DataStream.ChangeDelegate(_handle_update);
+      }
+
+      protected override void myOnLastSubscriber() {
+         _main_stream.onChange -= new DataStream.ChangeDelegate(_handle_update);
+         _vs_publisher.Dispose();
+      }
+
+      private void _handle_update(object o) {
+         myFireEvent(o);
+      }
+
+
+   }
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Publish/ViewPublisher.cs

@@ -7,48 +7,32 @@ using BCG.Utilities;
 namespace BCG {
    public class ViewPublisher : IDisposable {
       protected ViewPublisher() { }
+      private readonly PubTableBroker _broker;
+      protected readonly ViewStream _stream;
+      private int _n_updates = 0;
 
       /// If an name IsNullOrEmpty then it uses the name
       /// in the schema (be careful with that because this
       /// could lead to double publishes if the schema name
       /// is not uniquely chosen)
-      public ViewPublisher(string name, PubTableBroker br, ViewStream vs) {
-         myName = name;
-         myView = String.IsNullOrEmpty(name) ? vs : new ChangeTableNameStream(vs, name);
-         myBroker = br;
-         myFirstTime = true;
-         myView.onChange += new DataStream.ChangeDelegate(myChangeHandler);
+      public ViewPublisher(string name, PubTableBroker broker, ViewStream vs) {
+         _stream = String.IsNullOrEmpty(name) ? vs : new ChangeTableNameStream(vs, name);
+         _broker = broker;
+         _stream.onChange += new DataStream.ChangeDelegate(_handle_update);
       }
 
       public void Dispose() {
-         myView.onChange -= new DataStream.ChangeDelegate(myChangeHandler);
-         if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(myName))
-            myBroker.clearTable(myName);
+         _stream.onChange -= new DataStream.ChangeDelegate(_handle_update);
       }
 
-      private void myChangeHandler(object o) {
-         DataPacket dp = (DataPacket)o;
-         if (myFirstTime) {
-            myName = String.IsNullOrEmpty(myName) ? dp.schema.tableName : myName;
-            myLastRowCount = dp.newRows.Count;
-            myBroker.createTable(dp.newRows);
-            myFirstTime = false;
+      private void _handle_update(object o) {
+         DataPacket dp = o as DataPacket;
+         if (_n_updates == 0) {
+            _broker.create_table(dp.newRows);
+            _n_updates++;
          } else {
-            if (((dp.addedRows.Count + dp.deletedRows.Count) != 0)) {
-               myLastRowCount = dp.newRows.Count;
-               myBroker.makeBatchChanges(dp.newRows, dp.deletedRows, dp.addedRows);
-            }
+            _broker.make_batch_changes(dp.newRows, dp.deletedRows, dp.addedRows);
          }
       }
-
-      public int getLastRowPublishedCount() { return myLastRowCount; }
-
-      public bool hasPublished() { return !myFirstTime; }
-
-      private int myLastRowCount = -1;
-      private string myName;
-      private PubTableBroker myBroker;
-      protected ViewStream myView;
-      private bool myFirstTime;
    }
 }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStream/Publish/ViewStreamPublisher.cs

@@ -1,92 +0,0 @@
-using System;
-using BCG.Utilities;
-
-namespace BCG
-{
-	public class ViewStreamPublisher
-	{
-      private IDynamicStreamMapper myMapper;
-      private PubTableBroker myBroker;
-      private IBlueRowCollection myOutputTable;
-      private IBlueRowCollection myInputTable;
-
-      public ViewStreamPublisher (PubTableBroker broker)
-      {
-         myBroker = broker;
-      }
-
-      public ViewStreamPublisher (PubTableBroker broker, IDynamicStreamMapper mapper)
-         : this (broker)
-      {
-         myMapper = mapper;
-      }
-
-		public ViewStreamPublisher (PubTableBroker broker, IDynamicStreamMapper mapper, ViewStream vs)
-         : this (broker, mapper)
-		{
-         vs.onChange += new BCG.DataStream.ChangeDelegate(myHandleChanges);
-      }
-
-      private void myHandleChanges (object newValue)
-      {
-         DataPacket dp = newValue as DataPacket;
-         if (myMapper == null)
-         {
-            if (myOutputTable == null)
-            {
-               myBroker.createTable (dp.newRows);
-            }
-            else
-            {
-               myBroker.makeBatchChanges (dp.newRows, dp.deletedRows, dp.addedRows);
-            }
-            myOutputTable = dp.newRows;
-         }
-         else
-         {
-            if (myOutputTable != null)
-            {
-               BlueTable dRows = new BlueTable (myOutputTable.schema),
-                  aRows = new BlueTable (myOutputTable.schema);
-               foreach (IBlueRow dRow in dp.deletedRows)
-               {
-                  (myOutputTable as BlueTable).deleteRow ((int)dRow["id"]);
-                  dRows.addRow (myMapper.map (dRow));
-               }
-               foreach (IBlueRow aRow in dp.addedRows)
-               {
-                  IBlueRow r = myMapper.map (aRow);
-                  (myOutputTable as BlueTable).addRow (r);
-                  aRows.addRow (r);
-               }
-               myBroker.makeBatchChanges (myOutputTable, dRows, aRows);
-            }
-            else
-            {
-               if (dp.newRows.Count > 0)
-               {
-                  myOutputTable = new BlueTable (
-                  myMapper.map (BlueDataUtility.extractRow (dp.newRows, 0)).schema);
-                  myHandleChanges (newValue);
-               }
-            }
-         }
-      }
-
-      public void addRows (IBlueRowCollection aRows)
-      {
-         if (myInputTable != null)
-            (myInputTable as BlueTable).addRows (aRows);
-         else
-            myInputTable = new BlueTable (aRows);
-         myHandleChanges (new DataPacket(myInputTable, aRows, new BlueTable (aRows.schema)));
-      }
-
-      public void deleteRows (IBlueRowCollection dRows)
-      {
-         // BlueEventLog.logAssert (myInputTable != null);
-         (myInputTable as BlueTable).deleteRows (dRows);
-         myHandleChanges (new DataPacket (myInputTable, new BlueTable (myInputTable.schema), dRows));
-      }
-   }
-}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStreamCore/BlueData/BlueDataUtility.cs

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ using System.Reflection;
 using System.IO;
 using System.Diagnostics;
 using System.Linq;
-using System.Globalization;
 
 //using BCG.Utilities;
 using BCG.Utilities.General;
@@ -14,7 +13,8 @@ using System.Linq.Expressions;
 //using mbts.spark;
 using mbts;
 using BCG.Extensions;
-using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
+using System.Text.Json;
+using System.Text.Json.Nodes;
 
 namespace BCG {
    public static class BlueDataUtility {
@@ -49,12 +49,6 @@ namespace BCG {
             rv.Add(r.get<T>(col));
          return rv;
       }
-      public static IEnumerable<T> get_colvalues<T>(IBlueRowCollection rows, string col) {
-         List<T> rv = new List<T>();
-         foreach (IBlueRow r in rows)
-            rv.Add(r.get<T>(col));
-         return rv;
-      }
 
       public static IDictionary<T, IEnumerable<IBlueRow>> group_by<T>(IBlueRowCollection rows, string gp_col) {
          Dictionary<T, List<IBlueRow>> rv = new Dictionary<T, List<IBlueRow>>();
@@ -74,12 +68,17 @@ namespace BCG {
       // The values are returned as string values
       // doc_col is the column specifyng the doc name (following mongoDB's nomenclature, one set of key value rows ar a 'doc')
       public static IBlueRowCollection keyvalue_to_relational<T>(IBlueRowCollection kv_rows, string doc_col, string key_col, string val_col) {
-         HashSet<string> unique_cols = new HashSet<string>();
+         HashSet<string> keys = new HashSet<string>();
          foreach (string col in get_column_values<string>(kv_rows, key_col)) {
-            unique_cols.Add(col);
+            keys.Add(col);
          }
-         //unique_cols.Add(doc_col);
-         var schema_cols = unique_cols.Select(c => Tuple.Create(c, TypeCode.String)).ToList();
+         if (keys.Contains("id")) {
+            keys.Remove("id");
+         }
+         //unique_cols.Add(doc_col)
+         // all the keys become cols
+         var schema_cols = keys.Select(c => Tuple.Create(c, TypeCode.String)).ToList();
+         //schema of the final table needs doc and id
          schema_cols.Insert(0, Tuple.Create(doc_col, BlueDataUtility.get_typecode(typeof(T))));
          schema_cols.Insert(0, Tuple.Create("id", TypeCode.Int32));
          var schema = BlueDataUtility.form_schema("relational", schema_cols.ToArray());
@@ -91,6 +90,8 @@ namespace BCG {
             nr.setValue(doc_col, kv.Key);
             foreach (var r in kv.Value) {
                var col = r.get<string>(key_col);
+               if (!keys.Contains(col))
+                  continue;
                var val = r.get<string>(val_col);
                nr.setValue(col, val);
             }
@@ -118,6 +119,15 @@ namespace BCG {
          return rv;
       }
 
+      public static IDictionary<int, IBlueRow> to_map(this IBlueRowCollection rows) {
+         Dictionary<int, IBlueRow> rv = new Dictionary<int, IBlueRow>();
+         foreach (IBlueRow r in rows) {
+            var id = r.get<int>("id");
+            rv.Add(id, r);
+         }
+         return rv;
+      }
+
       public static IBlueTableSchema add_columns(this IBlueTableSchema input_schema, params Tuple<Type, string>[] cols) {
          List<ColumnInfo> cis = new List<ColumnInfo>(input_schema.columnInfo);
          foreach (Tuple<Type, string> c in cols)
@@ -179,6 +189,35 @@ namespace BCG {
 
       #endregion
 
+      #region json
+
+      public static List<JsonNode> json_to_json_node_list(string jsonString) {
+         var jsonNodeList = new List<JsonNode>();
+         bool noe = String.IsNullOrEmpty(jsonString);
+         if (noe)
+            return jsonNodeList;
+         try {
+            // Parse the JSON string
+            JsonArray jsonArray = JsonNode.Parse(jsonString) as JsonArray;
+
+            if (jsonArray == null) {
+               Console.WriteLine("The JSON string must represent a list.");
+               return jsonNodeList;
+            }
+
+            // Iterate through each JsonNode in the JsonArray
+            foreach (JsonNode jsonNode in jsonArray) {
+               jsonNodeList.Add(jsonNode);
+            }
+         } catch (JsonException ex) {
+            Console.WriteLine($"Invalid JSON: {ex.Message}");
+         }
+
+         return jsonNodeList;
+      }
+
+      #endregion
+
       public static void print_table(this IBlueRowCollection table, Func<string, int> get_col_width) {
          var rv = get_printed_rows(table, get_col_width);
          Console.WriteLine(rv);
@@ -208,37 +247,98 @@ namespace BCG {
          }
          return rv;
       }
+      #region Schema types
+      // these are the only types allowed in schemas
       private static IReadOnlyDictionary<TypeCode, Type> _typecode_to_type = new Dictionary<TypeCode, Type>
       {
-         { TypeCode.Boolean, typeof(bool) },
-         { TypeCode.Byte, typeof(byte) },
-         { TypeCode.Char, typeof(char) },
-         { TypeCode.DateTime, typeof(DateTime) },
-         { TypeCode.DBNull, typeof(DBNull) },
-         { TypeCode.Decimal, typeof(decimal) },
-         { TypeCode.Double, typeof(double) },
-         { TypeCode.Empty, null },
-         { TypeCode.Int16, typeof(short) },
-         { TypeCode.Int32, typeof(int) },
-         { TypeCode.Int64, typeof(long) },
-         { TypeCode.Object, typeof(object) },
-         { TypeCode.SByte, typeof(sbyte) },
-         { TypeCode.Single, typeof(Single) },
-         { TypeCode.String, typeof(string) },
-         { TypeCode.UInt16, typeof(UInt16) },
-         { TypeCode.UInt32, typeof(UInt32) },
-         { TypeCode.UInt64, typeof(UInt64) }
+         { TypeCode.Boolean, typeof(bool) }, //3
+         { TypeCode.Byte, typeof(byte) },    //6
+         { TypeCode.Char, typeof(char) },    //4
+         // TODO
+         { TypeCode.DateTime, typeof(DateTime) },//16
+         { TypeCode.Decimal, typeof(decimal) }, //15
+         { TypeCode.Double, typeof(double) },   //14
+         //{ TypeCode.Empty, null },
+         { TypeCode.Int16, typeof(short) },     //7
+         { TypeCode.Int32, typeof(int) },       //9
+         { TypeCode.Int64, typeof(long) },      //11
+         { TypeCode.SByte, typeof(sbyte) },     //5
+         { TypeCode.Single, typeof(Single) },   //13   
+         { TypeCode.String, typeof(string) },   //18
+         { TypeCode.UInt16, typeof(UInt16) },    //8
+         { TypeCode.UInt32, typeof(UInt32) },    //10
+         { TypeCode.UInt64, typeof(UInt64) }    //12
       };
 
+      public static IEnumerable<TypeCode> valid_column_typecodes() {
+         return _typecode_to_type.Keys;
+      }
+
+      public static IEnumerable<Type> valid_column_types() {
+         return _typecode_to_type.Values;
+      }
+
+      public static bool is_valid_col_type(Type t) {
+         TypeCode type_code = get_typecode(t);
+         return type_code != TypeCode.Empty;
+      }
+
       public static TypeCode get_typecode(Type t) {
          foreach (var kv in _typecode_to_type) {
             if (kv.Value == t)
                return kv.Key;
          }
-         bts.Log.assert_d(false, $"type: {t} not found");
+         //bts.Log.assert_d(false, $"type: {t} not found");
          return TypeCode.Empty;
       }
 
+      public static Type get_type(TypeCode type_code) {
+         Type rv = null;
+         if (_typecode_to_type.TryGetValue(type_code, out rv)) {
+            return rv;
+         }
+         return null;
+      }
+
+      public static TypeCode type_code(this ColumnInfo ci) {
+         return get_typecode(ci.colType);
+      }
+
+      #endregion
+
+      public static Tuple<Type, object> guess_type(string value) {
+         if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(value)) {
+            return Tuple.Create(typeof(string), (object)value);
+         }
+
+         int val = 0;
+         // Try to parse as integer
+         if (int.TryParse(value, out val)) {
+            return Tuple.Create(typeof(int), (object)val);
+         }
+
+         double dval = 0.0;
+         // Try to parse as double
+         if (double.TryParse(value, out dval)) {
+            return Tuple.Create(typeof(double), (object)dval);
+         }
+
+         DateTime dt;
+         // Try to parse as DateTime
+         if (DateTime.TryParse(value, out dt)) {
+            return Tuple.Create(typeof(DateTime), (object)dt);
+         }
+
+         bool bval;
+         // Try to parse as boolean
+         if (bool.TryParse(value, out bval)) {
+            return Tuple.Create(typeof(bool), (object)bval);
+         }
+
+         // If none of the above, return string type
+         return Tuple.Create(typeof(string), (object)value);
+      }
+
       public static IBlueTableSchema form_schema(string table_name, params Tuple<string, TypeCode>[] cols) {
          List<ColumnInfo> cis = new List<ColumnInfo>();
          foreach (Tuple<string, TypeCode> c in cols)
@@ -248,106 +348,6 @@ namespace BCG {
          return new BlueTableSchema(table_name, cis.ToArray());
       }
 
-      public static TypeCode convert_column_type(IEnumerable<string> col_vals) {
-         // bool
-         bool success = true;
-         foreach (var val in col_vals) {
-            bool parsed_val;
-            success = success && Boolean.TryParse(val, out parsed_val);
-            if (!success)
-               break;
-         }
-         if (success)
-            return TypeCode.Boolean;
-         // int
-         success = true;
-         foreach (var val in col_vals) {
-            int parsed_val;
-            success = success && Int32.TryParse(val, out parsed_val);
-            if (!success)
-               break;
-         }
-         if (success)
-            return TypeCode.Int32;
-         // try double
-         success = true;
-         foreach (var val in col_vals) {
-            double parsed_val;
-            success = success && Double.TryParse(val, out parsed_val);
-            if (!success)
-               break;
-         }
-         if (success)
-            return TypeCode.Double;
-         // try DateTime
-         success = true;
-         foreach (var val in col_vals) {
-            DateTime parsed_val;
-            success = success && DateTime.TryParse(val, out parsed_val);
-            if (!success)
-               break;
-         }
-         if (success)
-            return TypeCode.DateTime;
-         bts.Log.assert(false);
-         return TypeCode.Empty;
-      }
-
-      // public static Type guess_type(string val) {
-      //    //DateTime
-      //    {
-      //       DateTime dt;
-      //       var success = DateTime.TryParseExact(val, "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss", null, DateTimeStyles.AllowWhiteSpaces, out dt);
-      //       if (success) {
-      //          return typeof(DateTime);
-      //       }
-      //       DateTimeOffset dtoff;
-      //       success = DateTimeOffset.TryParseExact(val, "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:sszzz",
-      //                                              null, System.Globalization.DateTimeStyles.None, out dtoff);
-
-      //       if (success) {
-      //          return typeof(DateTime);
-      //       }
-      //    }
-      //    //int
-      //    {
-      //       int i;
-      //       var success = Int32.TryParse(val, out i);
-      //       if (success) {
-      //          return typeof(Int32);
-      //       }
-      //    }
-      //    //double
-      //    {
-      //       double d;
-      //       var success = Double.TryParse(val, out d);
-      //       if (success) {
-      //          return typeof(Double);
-      //       }
-      //    }
-      //    //bool
-      //    {
-      //       bool b;
-      //       var success = Boolean.TryParse(val, out b);
-      //       if (success) {
-      //          return typeof(bool);
-      //       }
-      //    }
-      //    //string
-      //    return typeof(string);
-      // }
-
-      private static Type[] _parsable_types = { typeof(DateTime), typeof(int), typeof(double), typeof(bool) };
-      public static Type guess_type(string val) {
-         foreach (var t in _parsable_types) {
-            var type_val = convert_to_type(t, val);
-            if (type_val != null)
-               return t;
-         }
-         return typeof(string);
-
-      }
-
       public static IBlueTableSchema get_typed_schema(IBlueRowCollection rows) {
          // just use one row to guess
          List<ColumnInfo> cis = new List<ColumnInfo>();
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ namespace BCG {
                   cis.Add(ci);
                   continue;
                }
-               Type type = guess_type(r[ci.colName] as string);
+               var (type, _) = guess_type(r[ci.colName] as string);
                cis.Add(new ColumnInfo(ci.colName, ci.colNo, type));
             }
             return new BlueTableSchema(cis.ToArray(), rows.schema.tableName);
@@ -365,37 +365,8 @@ namespace BCG {
          return null;
       }
 
-      static object convert_to_type(Type t, string value) {
-         // Attempt to convert the string to the specified type
-         try {
-            return Convert.ChangeType(value, t);
-         } catch (Exception) {
-            if (t == typeof(double)) {
-               // some doubles come with currency and ',' we clean that up here (there might be better ways to do this)
-               string cleaned_val = new string(value.Where(c => c != '$' && c != ',').ToArray());
-               cleaned_val = cleaned_val.Replace('−', '-');
-               double rv_d;
-               if (Double.TryParse(cleaned_val, out rv_d))
-                  return rv_d;
-               else
-                  return null;
-            }
-            return null;
-            // Handle conversion failure gracefully
-            // throw new ArgumentException("Failed to convert the string to the specified type.");
-         }
-      }
-
       // converts a row where all columns are string types to a schema where the best types are guesed
       public static IBlueRowCollection get_typed_table(IBlueRowCollection string_rows) {
-         Func<IBlueRow, IBlueTableSchema, IBlueRow> get_typed_row = (IBlueRow string_row, IBlueTableSchema typed_schema) => {
-            MutableBlueRow rv = new MutableBlueRow(typed_schema);
-            foreach (ColumnInfo ci in typed_schema.columnInfo) {
-               var typed_val = convert_to_type(ci.colType, value: string_row[ci.colName].ToString());
-               rv.setValue(ci.colName, typed_val);
-            }
-            return rv;
-         };
          IBlueTableSchema typed_schema = get_typed_schema(string_rows);
          var rv = new BlueTable(typed_schema);
          foreach (IBlueRow r in string_rows) {
@@ -403,10 +374,38 @@ namespace BCG {
             rv.addRow(typed_row);
          }
          return rv;
+
+         static IBlueRow get_typed_row(IBlueRow string_row, IBlueTableSchema typed_schema) {
+            var rv = new MutableBlueRow(typed_schema);
+            foreach (var ci in typed_schema.columnInfo) {
+               var typed_val = convert(ci.colType, string_row[ci.colName].ToString());
+               rv.setValue(ci.colName, typed_val);
+            }
+            return rv;
+         }
+
+         static object convert(Type t, string value) {
+            // Attempt to convert the string to the specified type
+            try {
+               return Convert.ChangeType(value, t);
+            } catch (Exception) {
+               if (t == typeof(double)) {
+                  // some doubles come with currency and ',' we clean that up here (there might be better ways to do this)
+                  string cleaned_val = new string(value.Where(c => c != '$' && c != ',').ToArray());
+                  cleaned_val = cleaned_val.Replace('−', '-');
+                  double rv_d;
+                  if (Double.TryParse(cleaned_val, out rv_d))
+                     return rv_d;
+                  else
+                     return null;
+               }
+               return null;
+               // Handle conversion failure gracefully
+               // throw new ArgumentException("Failed to convert the string to the specified type.");
+            }
+         }
       }
 
-
-
       /// <summary>
       /// Gets the Hashcode of the row with the boolean indicating whether the order of the rows should
       /// be alphabetic or not
@@ -541,12 +540,12 @@ namespace BCG {
          foreach (PropertyInfo pi in t.GetProperties())
             if (myIsActiveProperty(pi))
                colInfos.Add(new ColumnInfo(pi.Name, i++,
-                  ColumnInfo.isAllowedType(pi.PropertyType) ?
+                  is_valid_col_type(pi.PropertyType) ?
                   pi.PropertyType : typeof(String)));
          foreach (FieldInfo fi in t.GetFields())
             if (myIsActiveField(fi))
                colInfos.Add(new ColumnInfo(fi.Name, i++,
-                  ColumnInfo.isAllowedType(fi.FieldType) ? fi.FieldType : typeof(String)));
+                  is_valid_col_type(fi.FieldType) ? fi.FieldType : typeof(String)));
 
          if (createIdField)
             colInfos.Add(new ColumnInfo("id", i++, typeof(int)));
@@ -571,12 +570,12 @@ namespace BCG {
          foreach (PropertyInfo pi in t.GetProperties())
             if (myIsActiveProperty(pi))
                rowArray[schema[pi.Name].colNo] =
-                  ColumnInfo.isAllowedType(pi.PropertyType) ?
+                  is_valid_col_type(pi.PropertyType) ?
                   pi.GetValue(o, null) : pi.GetValue(o, null).ToString();
          foreach (FieldInfo fi in t.GetFields())
             if (myIsActiveField(fi))
                rowArray[schema[fi.Name].colNo] =
-                  ColumnInfo.isAllowedType(fi.FieldType) ?
+                  is_valid_col_type(fi.FieldType) ?
                   fi.GetValue(o) : fi.GetValue(o).ToString();
          if (idVal != null)
             rowArray[schema["id"].colNo] = idVal;
@@ -590,12 +589,12 @@ namespace BCG {
          foreach (PropertyInfo pi in t.GetProperties())
             if (myIsActiveProperty(pi))
                rowArray[schema[pi.Name].colNo] =
-                  ColumnInfo.isAllowedType(pi.PropertyType) ?
+                  is_valid_col_type(pi.PropertyType) ?
                   pi.GetValue(o, null) : type_converter(pi.PropertyType, pi.GetValue(o, null));
          foreach (FieldInfo fi in t.GetFields())
             if (myIsActiveField(fi))
                rowArray[schema[fi.Name].colNo] =
-                  ColumnInfo.isAllowedType(fi.FieldType) ?
+                  is_valid_col_type(fi.FieldType) ?
                   fi.GetValue(o) : type_converter(fi.FieldType, fi.GetValue(o));
          if (idVal != null)
             rowArray[schema["id"].colNo] = idVal;
@@ -784,15 +783,7 @@ namespace BCG {
       /// <param name="r1"></param>
       /// <param name="r2"></param>
       /// <returns></returns>
-      public static bool computeRowEquality(IBlueRow r1, IBlueRow r2) {
-         return computeRowEquality(r1, r2, r1.schema.columnNames);
-      }
 
-      public static bool computeRowEquality(IBlueRow r1,
-         IBlueRow r2,
-         params string[] colNames) {
-         return compareRows(r1, r2, colNames) == 0 ? true : false;
-      }
 
       /// <summary>
       /// Computes a string equivelant for the row, using the columns provided
@@ -830,7 +821,7 @@ namespace BCG {
       /// <param name="r2"></param>
       /// <param name="colNames"></param>
       /// <returns></returns>
-      public static int compareRows(IBlueRow r1,
+      public static int compare_rows(IBlueRow r1,
          IBlueRow r2,
          params string[] colNames) {
          int retVal = 0;
@@ -981,7 +972,7 @@ namespace BCG {
       public static IBlueRow computeMaxRow(IBlueRowCollection rows, params string[] cols) {
          IBlueRow retVal = rows.Count != 0 ? BlueDataUtility.extractRow(rows, 0) : null;
          foreach (IBlueRow r in rows)
-            retVal = compareRows(r, retVal, cols) > 0 ? r : retVal;
+            retVal = compare_rows(r, retVal, cols) > 0 ? r : retVal;
          return retVal;
       }
 
@@ -994,7 +985,7 @@ namespace BCG {
       public static IBlueRow computeMinRow(IBlueRowCollection rows, params string[] cols) {
          IBlueRow retVal = rows.Count != 0 ? BlueDataUtility.extractRow(rows, 0) : null;
          foreach (IBlueRow r in rows)
-            retVal = compareRows(r, retVal, cols) < 0 ? r : retVal;
+            retVal = compare_rows(r, retVal, cols) < 0 ? r : retVal;
          return retVal;
       }
 
@@ -1073,8 +1064,58 @@ namespace BCG {
             out aRows);
       }
 
+      public static bool compute_equality(IBlueRowCollection rows1, IBlueRowCollection rows2) {
+         IBlueRowCollection d_rows, a_rows;
+         compute_differences_fast(rows2, rows1, out d_rows, out a_rows);
+         return d_rows.Count == 0 && a_rows.Count == 0;
+      }
+
+      public static bool compute_equality(ColumnInfo ci1, ColumnInfo ci2) {
+         return (ci1.colNo == ci2.colNo) && (ci1.colName == ci2.colName) && (ci1.colType == ci2.colType);
+      }
+
+      public static bool compute_equality(IBlueTableSchema s1, IBlueTableSchema s2) {
+         if (s1.tableName != s1.tableName)
+            return false;
+         if (s1.columnInfo.Length != s2.columnInfo.Length)
+            return false;
+         for (int i = 0; i < s1.columnInfo.Length; i++) {
+            ColumnInfo ci1 = s2.columnInfo[i], ci2 = s2.columnInfo[i];
+            if (!compute_equality(ci1, ci2))
+               return false;
+         }
+         return true;
+      }
+
+      public static bool compute_equality(IBlueRow r1, IBlueRow r2) {
+         return compute_row_equality(r1, r2, r1.schema.columnNames);
+      }
+
+      public static bool compute_row_equality(IBlueRow r1,
+         IBlueRow r2,
+         params string[] col_names) {
+         return compare_rows(r1, r2, col_names) == 0 ? true : false;
+      }
+
+      public static string to_string(ColumnInfo ci) {
+         return ci.colNo + ";" + ci.colName + ";" + ci.colType;
+      }
+
+      public static string to_string(this IBlueRow r) {
+         string rv = String.Empty;
+         foreach (ColumnInfo c in r.schema.columnInfo) {
+            rv += $"{c.colName}: {r[c.colName]}\n";
+         }
+         return rv;
+      }
+
       public static void compute_differences_fast(IBlueRowCollection new_rows, IBlueRowCollection old_rows,
                                                   out IBlueRowCollection out_d_rows, out IBlueRowCollection out_a_rows) {
+         if (old_rows == null || old_rows.Count == 0) {
+            out_d_rows = new BlueTable(new_rows.schema);
+            out_a_rows = new BlueTable(new_rows);
+            return;
+         }
          int[] col_indices = new int[new_rows.schema.columnNames.Length];
          for (int i = 0; i < col_indices.Length; i++)
             col_indices[i] = i;
@@ -1083,6 +1124,11 @@ namespace BCG {
 
       public static void compute_differences_id_based(IBlueRowCollection new_rows, IBlueRowCollection old_rows,
                                                       out IBlueRowCollection out_d_rows, out IBlueRowCollection out_a_rows) {
+         if (old_rows == null || old_rows.Count == 0) {
+            out_d_rows = new BlueTable(new_rows.schema);
+            out_a_rows = new BlueTable(new_rows);
+            return;
+         }
          int[] col_indices = new int[] { new_rows.schema["id"].colNo };
          compute_differences_fast(new_rows, old_rows, col_indices, out out_d_rows, out out_a_rows);
       }
@@ -1126,7 +1172,7 @@ namespace BCG {
          foreach (IBlueRow nr in c1)
             if (!BlueDataUtility.rowPresent(c2, nr))
                (aRows as BlueTable).addRow(nr);
-            else if (BlueDataUtility.compareRows(nr, c2[(int)
+            else if (BlueDataUtility.compare_rows(nr, c2[(int)
                nr["id"]], columns) != 0) {
                (aRows as BlueTable).addRow(nr);
                (dRows as BlueTable).addRow(c2[(int)nr["id"]]);
@@ -1206,7 +1252,7 @@ namespace BCG {
          truelyAdds = new BlueTable(adds);
          foreach (IBlueRow r in dels) {
             if (adds.containsID((int)r["id"]) &&
-               BlueDataUtility.computeRowEquality(adds[(int)r["id"]], r, cols)) {
+               BlueDataUtility.compute_row_equality(adds[(int)r["id"]], r, cols)) {
                (truelyDels as BlueTable).deleteRow((int)r["id"]);
                (truelyAdds as BlueTable).deleteRow((int)r["id"]);
             }
@@ -1582,6 +1628,13 @@ namespace BCG {
          return sb.ToString();
       }
 
+      public static string id_string(IBlueRowCollection table) {
+         string rv = String.Empty;
+         foreach (IBlueRow r in table)
+            rv += $"{r["id"]} ";
+         return rv;
+      }
+
       public static IDictionary<int, List<IBlueRow>> group_together(IBlueRowCollection rows, string[] group_by_col_names) {
          BlueRowHasher hasher = new BlueRowHasher(group_by_col_names.Length);
          return group_together(rows, BlueDataUtility.get_column_indices(rows.schema, group_by_col_names), ref hasher);
@@ -1730,6 +1783,18 @@ namespace BCG {
          #endregion
       }
 
+      public static IBlueRow find_max(IEnumerable<IBlueRow> rows, params string[] cols_to_compare) {
+         if (rows == null || rows.Count() == 0)
+            return null;
+         IBlueRow max_row = rows.ElementAt(0);
+         foreach (IBlueRow r in rows) {
+            int c = compare_rows(r, max_row, cols_to_compare);
+            if (c > 0)
+               max_row = r;
+         }
+         return max_row;
+      }
+
       public static int compare_rows(IBlueRow r1, IBlueRow r2, Dictionary<string, bool> sort_map) {
          foreach (KeyValuePair<string, bool> p in sort_map) {
             int comp = compare_send_dontcare_to_last(r1, p.Key, r2, p.Key, p.Value);
@@ -2164,7 +2229,10 @@ namespace BCG {
          }
       }
 
-      public static IBlueRowCollection createRowsFromCSVFileWithoutTypes(string fileAddress) {
+      public static IBlueRowCollection createRowsFromCSVFileWithoutTypes(string fileAddress) =>
+         createRowsFromCSVFileWithoutTypes(fileAddress, out var _);
+
+      public static IBlueRowCollection createRowsFromCSVFileWithoutTypes(string fileAddress, out IBlueTableSchema schema) {
          StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(fileAddress);
          string cols = sr.ReadLine();
          string[] columns = cols.Split(',');
@@ -2172,11 +2240,11 @@ namespace BCG {
          ci[0] = new ColumnInfo("id", 0, typeof(int));
          for (int i = 1; i < ci.Length; i++)
             ci[i] = new ColumnInfo(columns[i - 1], i, typeof(string));
-         IBlueTableSchema bts = new BlueTableSchema(ci, "csvTable");
-         BlueTable result = new BlueTable(bts);
+         schema = new BlueTableSchema(ci, "csvTable");
+         BlueTable result = new BlueTable(schema);
          int id = 0;
          while (!sr.EndOfStream)
-            result.addRow(createRowFromCSVFileRow(sr.ReadLine(), bts, id++));
+            result.addRow(createRowFromCSVFileRow(sr.ReadLine(), schema, id++));
          sr.Close();
          return result;
       }
@@ -2210,33 +2278,5 @@ namespace BCG {
       }
 
       #endregion
-
-      public class RowComparer<T> : IComparer<IBlueRow> {
-         private readonly IEnumerable<Tuple<string, bool>> _sort_cols;
-         public RowComparer(IEnumerable<Tuple<string, bool>> sort_cols) {
-            _sort_cols = sort_cols;
-         }
-         public int Compare(IBlueRow? x, IBlueRow? y) {
-            Func<object, object, int> compare_cols = (o1, o2) => {
-               return (o1 as IComparable).CompareTo(o2);
-            };
-            foreach (var c in _sort_cols) {
-               int i = compare_cols(x[c.Item1], y[c.Item1]);
-
-            }
-            return 1;
-         }
-
-      }
-      public static IList<IBlueRow> get_sorted_row(IBlueRowCollection rows, IEnumerable<Tuple<string, bool>> sort_cols) {
-         List<IBlueRow> row_list = new List<IBlueRow>();
-         foreach (IBlueRow r in rows) {
-            row_list.Add(r);
-         }
-         var row_comparer = new RowComparer<IBlueRow>(sort_cols);
-         ParallelSort.QuicksortSequential<IBlueRow>(row_list, row_comparer);
-         return row_list;
-
-      }
    }
 }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStreamCore/BlueData/BlueDataValidTypes.cs

@@ -1,45 +1,42 @@
 using System;
 
-namespace BCG
-{
-	/// <summary>
-	/// Allowed types
-	/// </summary>
-	public class BlueDataValidTypes
-	{
-      public static readonly Type BOOL = typeof(bool);
-      public static readonly Type BYTE = typeof(byte);
-      public static readonly Type CHAR = typeof(char);
-      public static readonly Type DECIMAL = typeof(decimal);
-      public static readonly Type DOUBLE = typeof(double);
-      public static readonly Type SHORT = typeof(short);
-      public static readonly Type INT = typeof(int);
-      public static readonly Type LONG = typeof(long);
-      public static readonly Type SBYTE = typeof(sbyte);
-      //public static readonly Type FLOAT = typeof(float);
-      public static readonly Type STRING = typeof(string);
-      //public static readonly Type USHORT = typeof(ushort);
-      public static readonly Type UINT = typeof(uint);
-      public static readonly Type ULONG = typeof(ulong);
-      public static readonly Type DATETIME = typeof(DateTime);
-      public static readonly Type ISERIALIZEDTYPE = typeof(ISerializedType);
-      public static readonly Type SINGLE  = typeof(Single);
-      public static readonly Type BYTEARRAY = typeof(byte[]);
+namespace BCG {
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Allowed types
+    /// </summary>
+    public class BlueDataValidTypes {
+        public static readonly Type BOOL = typeof(bool);
+        public static readonly Type BYTE = typeof(byte);
+        public static readonly Type CHAR = typeof(char);
+        public static readonly Type DECIMAL = typeof(decimal);
+        public static readonly Type DOUBLE = typeof(double);
+        public static readonly Type SHORT = typeof(short);
+        public static readonly Type INT = typeof(int);
+        public static readonly Type LONG = typeof(long);
+        public static readonly Type SBYTE = typeof(sbyte);
+        //public static readonly Type FLOAT = typeof(float);
+        public static readonly Type STRING = typeof(string);
+        //public static readonly Type USHORT = typeof(ushort);
+        public static readonly Type UINT = typeof(uint);
+        public static readonly Type ULONG = typeof(ulong);
+        public static readonly Type DATETIME = typeof(DateTime);
+        public static readonly Type ISERIALIZEDTYPE = typeof(ISerializedType);
+        public static readonly Type SINGLE = typeof(Single);
+        public static readonly Type BYTEARRAY = typeof(byte[]);
 
-      public static int getValueTypeSize (Type t)
-      {
-          if (t == BOOL || t == BYTE  || t == SBYTE)
-              return 1;
-          else if (t == SHORT || t == CHAR)
-              return 2;
-          else if (t == INT || t == UINT || t == SINGLE)
-              return 4;
-          else if (t == DOUBLE || t == LONG || t == ULONG || t == DATETIME)
-              return 8;
-          else if (t == DECIMAL)
-              return 16;
-          else
-              throw new ApplicationException("Unsupported Data Type");
-      }
-	}
+        public static int getValueTypeSize(Type t) {
+            if (t == BOOL || t == BYTE || t == SBYTE)
+                return 1;
+            else if (t == SHORT || t == CHAR)
+                return 2;
+            else if (t == INT || t == UINT || t == SINGLE)
+                return 4;
+            else if (t == DOUBLE || t == LONG || t == ULONG || t == DATETIME)
+                return 8;
+            else if (t == DECIMAL)
+                return 16;
+            else
+                throw new ApplicationException("Unsupported Data Type");
+        }
+    }
 }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStreamCore/BlueData/BlueRowCollectionEqualityComparer.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+#nullable enable
+namespace Bts.DataStreamCore;
+
+using BCG;
+
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis;
+using System.Linq;
+
+public class BlueRowCollectionEqualityComparer : IEqualityComparer<IBlueRowCollection?> {
+   readonly IEqualityComparer<IBlueRow> rowComparer = BlueRowEqualityComparer.Instance;
+
+   public static BlueRowCollectionEqualityComparer Instance { get; } = new();
+
+   public bool Equals(IBlueRowCollection? x, IBlueRowCollection? y) {
+      if (x is null) {
+         return y is null;
+      }
+      if (x.Count != y?.Count) {
+         return false;
+      }
+      return x.schema.columnInfo.SequenceEqual(y.schema.columnInfo)
+         && x.Cast<IBlueRow>().OrderBy(r => r.Id()).SequenceEqual(
+            y.Cast<IBlueRow>().OrderBy(r => r.Id()),
+            rowComparer);
+   }
+
+   public int GetHashCode([DisallowNull] IBlueRowCollection rows) {
+      var hash = new HashCode();
+      hash.Add(rows.schema.columnInfo.Length);
+      hash.Add(rows.Count);
+      return hash.ToHashCode();
+   }
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStreamCore/BlueData/BlueRowEqualityComparer.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+namespace Bts.DataStreamCore;
+
+using BCG;
+
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis;
+using System.Linq;
+
+public class BlueRowEqualityComparer : IEqualityComparer<IBlueRow> {
+   public static BlueRowEqualityComparer Instance { get; } = new();
+
+   public bool Equals(IBlueRow x, IBlueRow y) =>
+      x.schema.columnInfo.SequenceEqual(y.schema.columnInfo) &&
+      x.Values.Cast<object>().SequenceEqual(y.Values.Cast<object>());
+
+   public int GetHashCode([DisallowNull] IBlueRow obj) {
+      var hash = new HashCode();
+      foreach (var v in obj.Values) {
+         hash.Add(v?.GetHashCode() ?? 0);
+      }
+      return hash.ToHashCode();
+   }
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStreamCore/BlueData/BlueRowLookupGroup.cs

@@ -1,116 +1,117 @@
-using System;
-using System.Collections.Generic;
-using System.Linq;
-using System.Text;
+// using System;
+// using System.Collections.Generic;
+// using System.Linq;
+// using System.Text;
 
-/*
- * This class reprsents one lookup group that is stored together in a lookup table because it contains repeated data patterns. 
- * if groupNo is zero, then the group is not stord in a lookup table at all. 
- * 
- * 
- * 
- */
-namespace BCG
-{
-   public class BlueRowLookupGroup
-   {
-      BlueTableSchema myEntrySchema;
-      public IBlueTableSchema entrySchema
-      {
-         get { return myEntrySchema; }
-         //cant' set this value, have to build it from the row's schema
+//TODORemove
+// /*
+//  * This class reprsents one lookup group that is stored together in a lookup table because it contains repeated data patterns. 
+//  * if groupNo is zero, then the group is not stord in a lookup table at all. 
+//  * 
+//  * 
+//  * 
+//  */
+// namespace BCG
+// {
+//    public class BlueRowLookupGroup
+//    {
+//       BlueTableSchema myEntrySchema;
+//       public IBlueTableSchema entrySchema
+//       {
+//          get { return myEntrySchema; }
+//          //cant' set this value, have to build it from the row's schema
 
-      }
+//       }
 
-      //for faster access and such
-      private int[] myGroupColNos;
-      public int[] groupColNos
-      {
-         get { return myGroupColNos; }
+//       //for faster access and such
+//       private int[] myGroupColNos;
+//       public int[] groupColNos
+//       {
+//          get { return myGroupColNos; }
 
-      }
-      private string[] myGroupColNames;
-      public string[] groupColNames
-      {
-         get { return myGroupColNames; }
-      }
+//       }
+//       private string[] myGroupColNames;
+//       public string[] groupColNames
+//       {
+//          get { return myGroupColNames; }
+//       }
 
-      private short myGroupNumber;
-      public short groupNumber
-      {
-         get { return myGroupNumber; }
+//       private short myGroupNumber;
+//       public short groupNumber
+//       {
+//          get { return myGroupNumber; }
 
-      }
-      
-      /* how many bits are the ids into the table?
-       * In c# everything is stored as integers, but when it goes across the wire
-       * the data can be represented as a byte, a short, or an int 
-       */
-      private short myTableSize;
-      public short tableSize
-      {
-         get { return myTableSize; }
+//       }
 
-      }
+//       /* how many bits are the ids into the table?
+//        * In c# everything is stored as integers, but when it goes across the wire
+//        * the data can be represented as a byte, a short, or an int 
+//        */
+//       private short myTableSize;
+//       public short tableSize
+//       {
+//          get { return myTableSize; }
 
-      //if the group number is 0, the group is not stored in tables for serialization
-      public bool isStoredInTable
-      {
-         get { return myGroupNumber != 0; }
+//       }
 
-      }
-      public BlueRowLookupGroup(short num, short sizeInBits, params string[] cols)
-      {
+//       //if the group number is 0, the group is not stored in tables for serialization
+//       public bool isStoredInTable
+//       {
+//          get { return myGroupNumber != 0; }
 
-         myGroupNumber = num;
-         myTableSize = sizeInBits;
-         myGroupColNames = cols ;
-      }
+//       }
+//       public BlueRowLookupGroup(short num, short sizeInBits, params string[] cols)
+//       {
 
-      /*Takes a LookupTableSchema for the rows this group caches for, and builds the schema representing
-       each of these entries in the lookup table.  This function should be called by the LookupTableSchema
-       during its constructor. 
-       
-       This function also caches the column numbers for this group, for quicker access*/
-      public void buildEntrySchema(LookupTableSchema theSchema)
-      {
-         ColumnInfo[] columns = new ColumnInfo[myGroupColNames.Length + 1];
-         myGroupColNos = new int[myGroupColNames.Length];
-         //the first column in our table is always the ID
-         int idColumn = 0;
-         columns[idColumn] = new ColumnInfo("id", idColumn, typeof(int));
-         //go through each of the columns
-         for (int col = 1; col < columns.Length; ++col)
-         {
-            ColumnInfo columnInInputTable = theSchema[groupColNames[col - 1]];
-            if (columnInInputTable.isConstant)
-               columns[col] = new ColumnInfo(columnInInputTable.colName, col, columnInInputTable.colValue);
-            else
-               columns[col] = new ColumnInfo(columnInInputTable.colName, col, columnInInputTable.colType);
+//          myGroupNumber = num;
+//          myTableSize = sizeInBits;
+//          myGroupColNames = cols ;
+//       }
 
-            myGroupColNos[col - 1] = columnInInputTable.colNo;
-         }
+//       /*Takes a LookupTableSchema for the rows this group caches for, and builds the schema representing
+//        each of these entries in the lookup table.  This function should be called by the LookupTableSchema
+//        during its constructor. 
 
-         
+//        This function also caches the column numbers for this group, for quicker access*/
+//       public void buildEntrySchema(LookupTableSchema theSchema)
+//       {
+//          ColumnInfo[] columns = new ColumnInfo[myGroupColNames.Length + 1];
+//          myGroupColNos = new int[myGroupColNames.Length];
+//          //the first column in our table is always the ID
+//          int idColumn = 0;
+//          columns[idColumn] = new ColumnInfo("id", idColumn, typeof(int));
+//          //go through each of the columns
+//          for (int col = 1; col < columns.Length; ++col)
+//          {
+//             ColumnInfo columnInInputTable = theSchema[groupColNames[col - 1]];
+//             if (columnInInputTable.isConstant)
+//                columns[col] = new ColumnInfo(columnInInputTable.colName, col, columnInInputTable.colValue);
+//             else
+//                columns[col] = new ColumnInfo(columnInInputTable.colName, col, columnInInputTable.colType);
 
-         myEntrySchema = new BlueTableSchema(columns, "Lookup Group " + theSchema.tableName + ":" + myGroupNumber);
-
-      }
-
-      /*takes a row as input, and extracts the members of the group from the row */
-      public object[] extractGroupFromRow(IBlueRow input)
-      {
-         int numCols = myGroupColNames.Length;
-         object[] results = new object[numCols];
-
-         for (int col = 0; col < numCols; ++col)
-            results[col] = input[myGroupColNos[col]];
-         
-         return results;
-
-      }
+//             myGroupColNos[col - 1] = columnInInputTable.colNo;
+//          }
 
 
 
-   }
-}
+//          myEntrySchema = new BlueTableSchema(columns, "Lookup Group " + theSchema.tableName + ":" + myGroupNumber);
+
+//       }
+
+//       /*takes a row as input, and extracts the members of the group from the row */
+//       public object[] extractGroupFromRow(IBlueRow input)
+//       {
+//          int numCols = myGroupColNames.Length;
+//          object[] results = new object[numCols];
+
+//          for (int col = 0; col < numCols; ++col)
+//             results[col] = input[myGroupColNos[col]];
+
+//          return results;
+
+//       }
+
+
+
+//    }
+// }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStreamCore/BlueData/BlueTable.cs

@@ -1,8 +1,15 @@
+using Bts.DataStreamCore;
+
+using Spark.DataStream;
+
 using System;
 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Data;
+using System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis;
+
 //using BCG.Utilities;
+
 using System.Linq;
 
 namespace BCG {
@@ -10,7 +17,7 @@ namespace BCG {
    /// Anologue of the dotNet DataTable.
    /// </summary>
    [Serializable]
-   public class BlueTable : IBlueRowCollection {
+   public class BlueTable : IBlueRowCollection, IDictionary<int, IBlueRow> {
       /// <summary>
       /// Hashtable indexed on "id" to speed up removes
       /// </summary>
@@ -86,6 +93,12 @@ namespace BCG {
                throw new BlueDataException("ID " + id.ToString() + " does not exist in table " + mySchema.tableName);
             return (IBlueRow)row;
          }
+         set {
+            if ((int)value["id"] != id) {
+               throw new ArgumentException("id arg not equal to row's actual id", nameof(id));
+            }
+            changeRow(value);
+         }
       }
 
       /// <summary>
@@ -202,6 +215,8 @@ namespace BCG {
 
       #endregion
 
+      public IDictionary<int, IBlueRow> AsDictionary() => this;
+
       #region ICollection members
       public virtual IEnumerator GetEnumerator() //{return myRows.GetEnumerator ();}
       { return myIdIndex.Values.GetEnumerator(); }
@@ -214,5 +229,55 @@ namespace BCG {
 
       public virtual int Count { get { return myIdIndex.Count; } }
       #endregion
+
+      #region IDictionary<int, IBlueRow> members
+      public void Add(int key, IBlueRow value) {
+         throw new NotImplementedException();
+      }
+
+      bool IDictionary<int, IBlueRow>.ContainsKey(int key) =>
+         containsID(key);
+
+      bool IDictionary<int, IBlueRow>.Remove(int key) =>
+         deleteRow(key);
+
+      bool IDictionary<int, IBlueRow>.TryGetValue(
+         int key, [MaybeNullWhen(false)] out IBlueRow value) =>
+         tryGetValue(key, out value);
+
+      void ICollection<KeyValuePair<int, IBlueRow>>.Add(KeyValuePair<int, IBlueRow> item) =>
+         addRow(item.Value);
+
+      void ICollection<KeyValuePair<int, IBlueRow>>.Clear() =>
+         clear();
+
+      bool ICollection<KeyValuePair<int, IBlueRow>>.Contains(KeyValuePair<int, IBlueRow> item) =>
+         tryGetValue(item.Key, out var r)
+         && BlueRowEqualityComparer.Instance.Equals(r, item.Value);
+
+      void ICollection<KeyValuePair<int, IBlueRow>>.CopyTo(
+         KeyValuePair<int, IBlueRow>[] array, int arrayIndex) {
+         foreach (DictionaryEntry de in myIdIndex) {
+            array[arrayIndex++] = new((int)de.Key, (IBlueRow)de.Value);
+         }
+      }
+
+      bool ICollection<KeyValuePair<int, IBlueRow>>.Remove(KeyValuePair<int, IBlueRow> item) =>
+         deleteRow(item.Key);
+
+      IEnumerator<KeyValuePair<int, IBlueRow>> IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<int, IBlueRow>>.GetEnumerator() {
+         foreach (DictionaryEntry de in myIdIndex) {
+            yield return new((int)de.Key, (IBlueRow)de.Value);
+         }
+      }
+
+      ICollection<int> IDictionary<int, IBlueRow>.Keys =>
+         GenericCollectionWrapper.Create<int>(myIdIndex.Keys);
+
+      ICollection<IBlueRow> IDictionary<int, IBlueRow>.Values =>
+         GenericCollectionWrapper.Create<IBlueRow>(myIdIndex.Values);
+
+      bool ICollection<KeyValuePair<int, IBlueRow>>.IsReadOnly => false;
+      #endregion
    }
 }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStreamCore/BlueData/BlueTableImmutable.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+#nullable enable
+namespace Bts.DataStreamCore;
+
+using BCG;
+
+using System;
+using System.Collections;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Collections.Immutable;
+
+// I would have named this ImmutableBlueTable, but that was already taken.
+public class BlueTableImmutable : IBlueRowCollection, IImmutableRowCollection {
+   readonly ImmutableDictionary<int, IBlueRow> rows;
+
+   public BlueTableImmutable(IBlueTableSchema schema)
+      : this(schema, ImmutableDictionary<int, IBlueRow>.Empty) { }
+
+   public BlueTableImmutable(IBlueTableSchema schema, ImmutableDictionary<int, IBlueRow> rows) {
+      this.schema = schema;
+      this.rows = rows;
+   }
+
+   public int Count => rows.Count;
+   public bool IsSynchronized => false;
+   public IBlueTableSchema schema { get; }
+   public object SyncRoot => this;
+
+   public IBlueRow this[int id] => rows[id];
+
+   public bool containsID(int id) =>
+      rows.ContainsKey(id);
+
+   public void CopyTo(Array array, int index) {
+      foreach (var r in rows.Values) {
+         array.SetValue(r, index++);
+      }
+   }
+
+   public IEnumerator GetEnumerator() =>
+      rows.Values.GetEnumerator();
+
+   public DataPacketBuilder ToDataPacketBuilder() =>
+      new(this);
+
+   public class DataPacketBuilder {
+      readonly IBlueTableSchema schema;
+      readonly ImmutableDictionary<int, IBlueRow>.Builder table;
+      readonly ImmutableDictionary<int, IBlueRow>.Builder added =
+         ImmutableDictionary<int, IBlueRow>.Empty.ToBuilder();
+      readonly ImmutableDictionary<int, IBlueRow>.Builder removed =
+         ImmutableDictionary<int, IBlueRow>.Empty.ToBuilder();
+
+      public DataPacketBuilder(BlueTableImmutable table) {
+         schema = table.schema;
+         this.table = table.rows.ToBuilder();
+      }
+
+      public void AddOrUpdate(IBlueRow row, IEqualityComparer<IBlueRow>? comparer = null) {
+         var id = row.Id();
+         if (table.TryGetValue(id, out var orig)) {
+            if (comparer?.Equals(row, orig) ?? false) {
+               // No op: This row was already in the table (according to 'comparer').
+               // Remove it from 'added' and 'removed'.
+               added.Remove(id);
+               removed.Remove(id);
+               return;
+            }
+            // Change op: A row with this id was already in the table,
+            // but its values have changed (according to 'comparer').
+            removed[id] = orig;
+         }
+         added[id] = row;
+      }
+
+      public void Remove(int id) {
+         added.Remove(id);
+         if (table.TryGetValue(id, out var orig)) {
+            removed[id] = orig;
+         }
+      }
+
+      public DataPacket ToDataPacket(bool reset = true) {
+         table.RemoveRange(removed.Keys);
+         table.AddRange(added);
+         var newRows = new BlueTableImmutable(schema, table.ToImmutable());
+         var addedRows = new BlueTableImmutable(schema, added.ToImmutable());
+         var removedRows = new BlueTableImmutable(schema, removed.ToImmutable());
+         if (reset) {
+            added.Clear();
+            removed.Clear();
+         }
+         return new(newRows, addedRows, removedRows);
+      }
+
+      public BlueTableImmutable ToImmutable() =>
+         new(schema, table.ToImmutable());
+   }
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStreamCore/BlueData/BlueTableSchema.cs

@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ using System.Linq;
 
 using BCG.Utilities.General;
 
-namespace BCG
-{
+namespace BCG {
    /// <summary>
    /// The BlueTableSchema is an immutable schema holder. Once created it cannot be modified. It can be created
    /// either from a DataTable or from an Array of ColumnInfo. The methods through which the user can access it
@@ -17,112 +16,105 @@ namespace BCG
    /// the respective data, sorted according to the ColumnOrder.
    /// </summary>
    [Serializable]
-   public class BlueTableSchema : IBlueTableSchema
-   {
-      public class BlueTableSchemaSerializationHelper
-      {
-         public static object parse(Type t, string data)
-         {
-            if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BOOL)
-               return Boolean.Parse(data);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BYTE)
-               return Byte.Parse(data);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.CHAR)
-               return char.Parse(data);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DATETIME)
-               return DateTime.Parse(data);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DOUBLE)
-               return Double.Parse(data);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DECIMAL)
-               return Decimal.Parse(data);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.INT)
-               return int.Parse(data);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.LONG)
-               return long.Parse(data);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.SBYTE)
-               return SByte.Parse(data);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.STRING)
-               return data;
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.UINT)
-               return uint.Parse(data);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.ULONG)
-               return ulong.Parse(data);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.SINGLE)
-               return Single.Parse(data);
-            else
-               throw new ApplicationException("Can not be parsed");
-         }
-         public static void serialize(BinaryWriter bw, Type t, object o)
-         {
-            if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BOOL)
-               bw.Write((bool)o);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BYTE)
-               bw.Write((byte)o);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.CHAR)
-               bw.Write((char)o);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DATETIME)
-               bw.Write(((DateTime)o).Ticks);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DOUBLE)
-               bw.Write((double)o);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DECIMAL)
-               bw.Write((decimal)o);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.INT)
-               bw.Write((int)o);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.LONG)
-               bw.Write((long)o);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.SBYTE)
-               bw.Write((sbyte)o);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.STRING)
-               bw.Write(o as string);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.SINGLE)
-               bw.Write((Single)o);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BYTEARRAY)
-            {
-               byte[] bs = o as byte[];
-               bw.Write(bs.Length);
-               bw.Write(bs);
-            }
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.UINT)
-               bw.Write((uint)o);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.ULONG)
-               bw.Write((ulong)o);
-            else
-               throw new ApplicationException("Unsupported type");
-         }
+   public class BlueTableSchema : IBlueTableSchema {
+      public class BlueTableSchemaSerializationHelper {
+         // public static object parse(Type t, string data) {
+         //    if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BOOL)
+         //       return Boolean.Parse(data);
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BYTE)
+         //       return Byte.Parse(data);
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.CHAR)
+         //       return char.Parse(data);
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DATETIME)
+         //       return DateTime.Parse(data);
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DOUBLE)
+         //       return Double.Parse(data);
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DECIMAL)
+         //       return Decimal.Parse(data);
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.INT)
+         //       return int.Parse(data);
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.LONG)
+         //       return long.Parse(data);
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.SBYTE)
+         //       return SByte.Parse(data);
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.STRING)
+         //       return data;
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.UINT)
+         //       return uint.Parse(data);
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.ULONG)
+         //       return ulong.Parse(data);
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.SINGLE)
+         //       return Single.Parse(data);
+         //    else
+         //       throw new ApplicationException("Can not be parsed");
+         // }
+         // public static void serialize(BinaryWriter bw, Type t, object o) {
+         //    if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BOOL)
+         //       bw.Write((bool)o);
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BYTE)
+         //       bw.Write((byte)o);
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.CHAR)
+         //       bw.Write((char)o);
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DATETIME)
+         //       bw.Write(((DateTime)o).Ticks);
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DOUBLE)
+         //       bw.Write((double)o);
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DECIMAL)
+         //       bw.Write((decimal)o);
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.INT)
+         //       bw.Write((int)o);
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.LONG)
+         //       bw.Write((long)o);
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.SBYTE)
+         //       bw.Write((sbyte)o);
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.STRING)
+         //       bw.Write(o as string);
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.SINGLE)
+         //       bw.Write((Single)o);
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BYTEARRAY) {
+         //       byte[] bs = o as byte[];
+         //       bw.Write(bs.Length);
+         //       bw.Write(bs);
+         //    } else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.UINT)
+         //       bw.Write((uint)o);
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.ULONG)
+         //       bw.Write((ulong)o);
+         //    else
+         //       throw new ApplicationException("Unsupported type");
+         // }
 
-         public static object deserialize(BinaryReader br, Type t)
-         {
-            if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BOOL)
-               return br.ReadBoolean();
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BYTE)
-               return br.ReadByte();
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.CHAR)
-               return br.ReadChar();
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DATETIME)
-               return new DateTime(br.ReadInt64());
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DOUBLE)
-               return br.ReadDouble();
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DECIMAL)
-               return br.ReadDecimal();
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.INT)
-               return br.ReadInt32();
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.LONG)
-               return br.ReadInt64();
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.SBYTE)
-               return br.ReadSByte();
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.STRING)
-               return br.ReadString();
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BYTEARRAY)
-               return br.ReadBytes(br.ReadInt32());
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.UINT)
-               return br.ReadUInt32();
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.ULONG)
-               return br.ReadUInt64();
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.SINGLE)
-               return br.ReadSingle();
-            else
-               throw new ApplicationException("Unsupported type");
-         }
+         // public static object deserialize(BinaryReader br, Type t) {
+         //    if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BOOL)
+         //       return br.ReadBoolean();
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BYTE)
+         //       return br.ReadByte();
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.CHAR)
+         //       return br.ReadChar();
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DATETIME)
+         //       return new DateTime(br.ReadInt64());
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DOUBLE)
+         //       return br.ReadDouble();
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DECIMAL)
+         //       return br.ReadDecimal();
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.INT)
+         //       return br.ReadInt32();
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.LONG)
+         //       return br.ReadInt64();
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.SBYTE)
+         //       return br.ReadSByte();
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.STRING)
+         //       return br.ReadString();
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BYTEARRAY)
+         //       return br.ReadBytes(br.ReadInt32());
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.UINT)
+         //       return br.ReadUInt32();
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.ULONG)
+         //       return br.ReadUInt64();
+         //    else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.SINGLE)
+         //       return br.ReadSingle();
+         //    else
+         //       throw new ApplicationException("Unsupported type");
+         // }
       }
 
       protected Hashtable myIndexByColName = new Hashtable();
@@ -132,29 +124,24 @@ namespace BCG
 
       public BlueTableSchema() { }
 
-      public BlueTableSchema(DataTable table)
-      {
+      public BlueTableSchema(DataTable table) {
          myIndexByColOrder = new ColumnInfo[table.Columns.Count];
          myTableName = table.TableName;
-         foreach (DataColumn col in table.Columns)
-         {
+         foreach (DataColumn col in table.Columns) {
             ColumnInfo ci = new ColumnInfo(col.ColumnName, col.Ordinal, col.DataType);
             myIndexByColName[ci.colName] = ci;
             myIndexByColOrder[ci.colNo] = ci;
          }
       }
 
-      public BlueTableSchema(ColumnInfo[] cis, string tableName)
-      {
+      public BlueTableSchema(ColumnInfo[] cis, string tableName) {
          myConstruct(cis, tableName);
       }
 
-      private void myConstruct(ColumnInfo[] cis, string tableName)
-      {
+      private void myConstruct(ColumnInfo[] cis, string tableName) {
          myIndexByColOrder = new ColumnInfo[cis.Length];
          myTableName = tableName;
-         foreach (ColumnInfo ci in cis)
-         {
+         foreach (ColumnInfo ci in cis) {
             myIndexByColOrder[ci.colNo] = ci;
             myIndexByColName[ci.colName] = ci;
          }
@@ -169,15 +156,13 @@ namespace BCG
       /// </summary>
       /// <param name="tableName">the table name</param>
       /// <param name="fromType">the plain old data type whose fields will be mirrored in the schema</param>
-      public BlueTableSchema(string tableName, Type fromType)
-      {
+      public BlueTableSchema(string tableName, Type fromType) {
          List<ColumnInfo> cis = new List<ColumnInfo>();
          int i = 0;
          // we sort the field name so that we have a deterministic order given 
          // the same type. 
          bool foundId = false;
-         foreach (FieldInfo fi in fromType.GetFields().OrderBy((f) => { return f.Name; }))
-         {
+         foreach (FieldInfo fi in fromType.GetFields().OrderBy((f) => { return f.Name; })) {
             if (fi.Name.ToLower().Equals("id"))
                foundId = true;
             cis.Add(new ColumnInfo(fi.Name, i++, fi.FieldType));
@@ -188,32 +173,25 @@ namespace BCG
          myConstruct(cis.ToArray(), tableName);
       }
 
-      public ColumnInfo this[string colName]
-      {
-         get
-         {
+      public ColumnInfo this[string colName] {
+         get {
             object retVal = myIndexByColName[colName];
             return retVal != null ? retVal as ColumnInfo : null;
          }
       }
 
-      public ColumnInfo this[int colNo]
-      {
+      public ColumnInfo this[int colNo] {
          get { return myIndexByColOrder[colNo]; }
       }
 
       /// <summary>
       /// The returned Array is sorted according to the Column No
       /// </summary>
-      public string[] columnNames
-      {
-         get
-         {
-            if (myTableColNames == null)
-            {
+      public string[] columnNames {
+         get {
+            if (myTableColNames == null) {
                myTableColNames = new string[myIndexByColName.Count];
-               foreach (DictionaryEntry de in myIndexByColName)
-               {
+               foreach (DictionaryEntry de in myIndexByColName) {
                   ColumnInfo temp = (ColumnInfo)de.Value;
                   myTableColNames[temp.colNo] = temp.colName;
                }
@@ -225,8 +203,7 @@ namespace BCG
       /// <summary>
       /// The returned Array is sorted according to the Column No
       /// </summary>
-      public ColumnInfo[] columnInfo
-      {
+      public ColumnInfo[] columnInfo {
          get { return myIndexByColOrder; }
       }
 
@@ -234,49 +211,30 @@ namespace BCG
 
 
       #region ISerializedType methods
-      public void serialize(BinaryWriter bw)
-      {
+      public void serialize(BinaryWriter bw) {
          bw.Write(columnNames.Length);
          bw.Write(tableName);
-         foreach (ColumnInfo ci in columnInfo)
-         {
+         foreach (ColumnInfo ci in columnInfo) {
             bw.Write(ci.colName);
             bw.Write(ci.colType.ToString());
-            if (ci.isConstant)
-            {
-               bw.Write(true);
-               BlueTableSchemaSerializationHelper.serialize(bw, ci.colType, ci.colValue);
-            }
-            else
             {
                bw.Write(false);
             }
          }
       }
 
-      public void deserialze(BinaryReader br)
-      {
+      public void deserialze(BinaryReader br) {
          ColumnInfo[] cis = new ColumnInfo[br.ReadInt32()];
          string name = br.ReadString();
-         for (int i = 0; i < cis.Length; i++)
-         {
+         for (int i = 0; i < cis.Length; i++) {
             string colName = br.ReadString();
             Type t = TypeInstanceLoader.loadType(br.ReadString(), true);
-            bool isConstant = br.ReadBoolean();
-            if (isConstant)
-            {
-               cis[i] = new ColumnInfo(colName, i, t, BlueTableSchemaSerializationHelper.deserialize(br, t));
-            }
-            else
-            {
-               cis[i] = new ColumnInfo(colName, i, t);
-            }
+            cis[i] = new ColumnInfo(colName, i, t);
          }
          myConstruct(cis, name);
       }
 
-      public int getSerializedSize()
-      {
+      public int getSerializedSize() {
          throw new NotImplementedException("Feature for provided constant values to" +
             "non-primitive types in schema, not provided as of now");
       }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStreamCore/BlueData/BlueTableSchemaAdaptor.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+#nullable enable
+namespace Bts.DataStream;
+
+using BCG;
+
+using bts.collections;
+
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+
+public class BlueTableSchemaAdaptor<T> : IMutableBlueRowFactory<T> {
+   readonly string name;
+   readonly List<ColumnAdaptor> columns = new();
+   BlueTableSchema? schema;
+
+   public BlueTableSchemaAdaptor(string name) =>
+      this.name = name;
+
+   public IBlueTableSchema Schema =>
+      schema ??= new BlueTableSchema(columns.WrapSelectorRO(c => c.Info).ToArray(), name);
+
+   public bool Contains(string name) =>
+      columns.Any(c => c.Info.colName == name);
+
+   public void AddColumn(string name, Func<T, int> getValue) =>
+      AddColumn(name, r => getValue(r), typeof(int));
+
+   public void AddColumn(string name, Func<T, int?> getValue) =>
+      AddColumn(name, r => getValue(r) ?? (object)DBNull.Value, typeof(int));
+
+   public void AddColumn(string name, Func<T, long> getValue) =>
+      AddColumn(name, r => getValue(r), typeof(long));
+
+   public void AddColumn(string name, Func<T, long?> getValue) =>
+      AddColumn(name, r => getValue(r) ?? (object)DBNull.Value, typeof(long));
+
+   public void AddColumn(string name, Func<T, double> getValue) =>
+      AddColumn(name, r => getValue(r), typeof(double));
+
+   public void AddColumn(string name, Func<T, double?> getValue) =>
+      AddColumn(name, r => getValue(r) ?? (object)DBNull.Value, typeof(double));
+
+   public void AddColumn(string name, Func<T, DateTime> getValue) =>
+      AddColumn(name, r => getValue(r), typeof(DateTime));
+
+   public void AddColumn(string name, Func<T, DateTime?> getValue) =>
+      AddColumn(name, r => getValue(r) ?? (object)DBNull.Value, typeof(DateTime));
+
+   public void AddColumn(string name, Func<T, string?> getValue) =>
+      AddColumn(name, r => getValue(r) ?? (object)DBNull.Value, typeof(string));
+
+   public void AddColumn(string name, Func<T, object?> getValue, Type dataType) {
+      if (!ColumnInfo.isAllowedType(dataType)) {
+         throw new ArgumentException(
+            $"'{dataType}' is not a supported column type", nameof(dataType));
+      }
+      // Invalidate cached schema (set it to null)
+      schema = null;
+      columns.Add(new ColumnAdaptor(new(name, columns.Count, dataType), r => getValue(r)));
+   }
+
+   public IBlueRow GetBlueRow(T item) =>
+      GetMutableBlueRow(item);
+
+   public MutableBlueRow GetMutableBlueRow(T item) {
+      var mbr = new MutableBlueRow(Schema);
+      foreach (var col in columns) {
+         mbr.setValue(col.Info.colNo, col.GetValue(item));
+      }
+      return mbr;
+   }
+
+   class ColumnAdaptor {
+      readonly Func<T, object?> getValue;
+
+      public ColumnAdaptor(ColumnInfo info, Func<T, object?> getValue) {
+         Info = info;
+         this.getValue = getValue;
+      }
+
+      public ColumnInfo Info { get; }
+
+      public object? GetValue(T row) =>
+         getValue(row);
+   }
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStreamCore/BlueData/CircularBufferTable.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Data;
+using System.Linq;
+
+using BCG;
+
+namespace bts {
+   public class CircularBufferTable : IBlueRowCollection {
+      private BlueTable _table;
+      private List<IBlueRow> _ordered_list = new List<IBlueRow>();
+      private int _buffer_sz;
+      public CircularBufferTable(IBlueTableSchema schema, int buffer_sz) {
+         _table = new BlueTable(schema);
+         _buffer_sz = buffer_sz;
+      }
+
+      // returns the row that might need to be deleted to keep
+      // the circular buffer intact
+      public IBlueRow add_row(IBlueRow row) {
+         _ordered_list.Add(row);
+         _table.addRow(row);
+         if (_ordered_list.Count > _buffer_sz) {
+            IBlueRow rv = _ordered_list.ElementAt(0);
+            _ordered_list.RemoveAt(0);
+            _table.deleteRow(rv);
+            return rv;
+         }
+         return null;
+      }
+
+      public IBlueRow this[int id] {
+         get {
+            return _table[id];
+         }
+      }
+      public IBlueTableSchema schema {
+         get {
+            return _table.schema;
+         }
+      }
+      public bool containsID(int id) {
+         return _table.containsID(id);
+      }
+
+      public void CopyTo(Array array, int index) { _table.CopyTo((IBlueRow[])array, index); }
+      public int Count { get { return _table.Count; } }
+      public bool IsSynchronized { get { return false; } }
+      public object SyncRoot { get { return this; } }
+      public System.Collections.IEnumerator GetEnumerator() { return _table.GetEnumerator(); }
+   }
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStreamCore/BlueData/ColumnInfo.cs

@@ -1,56 +1,32 @@
 using System;
 
-namespace BCG
-{
+namespace BCG {
    /// <summary>
    /// Resprsents information about a column schema, ie its ordinal, the type, the name and constant value or expression. where applicable
    /// </summary>
    [Serializable]
-   public class ColumnInfo : IComparable
-   {
-      public static bool isAllowedType (Type t)
-      {
-         return 
-            t.Equals (typeof (System.Int32)) ||
-            t.Equals (typeof (System.Int64)) ||
-            t.Equals (typeof (System.Double)) ||
-            t.Equals (typeof (System.String)) ||
-            t.Equals (typeof (System.DateTime)) ? true :
-            false;
-      }
+   public class ColumnInfo : IComparable {
 
       //the default column info does not cach values in a lookup table, therefore it is in group 0
-      public ColumnInfo(string colName, int colNo, Type colType)
-         : this(colName, colNo, colType, 0)
-      {
-
-
-      }
-
-      public ColumnInfo(string colName, int colNo, Type colType, short colGroup)
-      {
+      public ColumnInfo(string colName, int colNo, Type colType, object colValue = null) {
          myColName = colName;
          myColNo = colNo;
          myColType = colType;
-         myLookupTableGroup = colGroup;
-         myColValue = null;
+         myColValue = colValue;
       }
 
-
-      public ColumnInfo (string colName, int colNo, object colValue)
-         : this (colName, colNo, colValue.GetType())  {myColValue = colValue == null ? DBNull.Value : colValue;}
-
-      public ColumnInfo (string colName, int colNo, Type colType, object colValue)
-         : this (colName, colNo, colType) 
-      {
-
-         myColValue = colValue == null ? DBNull.Value : colValue;
-      
+      public ColumnInfo(string col_name, int col_no, TypeCode type_code)
+         : this(col_name, col_no, BlueDataUtility.get_type(type_code)) {
       }
 
+      public static bool isAllowedType(Type type) =>
+         type == typeof(int) ||
+         type == typeof(long) ||
+         type == typeof(double) ||
+         type == typeof(string) ||
+         type == typeof(DateTime);
 
-      public int CompareTo (object obj)
-      {
+      public int CompareTo(object obj) {
          int otherColNo = ((ColumnInfo)(obj)).colNo;
          if (myColNo < otherColNo)
             return -1;
@@ -59,37 +35,30 @@ namespace BCG
          return 0;
       }
 
-      //public bool isCalculated{get{return myExpression != null;}}
+      public override bool Equals(object obj) {
+         if (obj is ColumnInfo) {
+            ColumnInfo other = obj as ColumnInfo;
+            return (colNo == other.colNo) && (colName == other.colName) && (colType == other.colType);
+         }
+         return false;
+      }
 
+      public override string ToString() {
+         return colName + " " + colNo + " " + colType;
+      }
+
+
+      // for backwards compatibility to allow build
       public bool isConstant {get{return myColValue != null;}}
 
       private int myColNo;
       private string myColName;
       private Type myColType;
-      //private string myExpression;
       private object myColValue;
 
-      //no table will ever have more than 65,536 columns
-      //if it does, we are in serious trouble
-      private short myLookupTableGroup;
-
-      public int colNo{get{return myColNo;}}
-      public string colName {get{return myColName;}}
-      public Type colType {get{return myColType;}}
-
-
-      //this value corresponds to how the data in the column is serialized. 
-      //if the group number is 0, the values are not stored in a table
-      //if the vlaue is non-zero, all columns with the the same lookup table group are stored in the same lookup table together
-      //are stored together in a lookup table
-
-      
-      public short lookupTableGroup
-      {
-         get { return myLookupTableGroup; }
-         set { myLookupTableGroup = value; }
-      }
-      //public string expression {get{return myExpression;}}
+      public int colNo { get { return myColNo; } }
+      public string colName { get { return myColName; } }
+      public Type colType { get { return myColType; } }
       public object colValue {get{return myColValue;}}
    }
 }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStreamCore/BlueData/DataPacketEqualityComparer.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+#nullable enable
+namespace Bts.DataStreamCore;
+
+using BCG;
+
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis;
+using System.Linq;
+
+public class DataPacketEqualityComparer : IEqualityComparer<DataPacket?> {
+   readonly IEqualityComparer<IBlueRowCollection> rowCollectionComparer;
+
+   public DataPacketEqualityComparer(IEqualityComparer<IBlueRowCollection>? rowCollectionComparer = null) =>
+      this.rowCollectionComparer = rowCollectionComparer ?? BlueRowCollectionEqualityComparer.Instance;
+
+   public static DataPacketEqualityComparer Instance { get; } = new();
+
+   public bool Equals(DataPacket? x, DataPacket? y) {
+      if (x is null) {
+         return y is null;
+      }
+      return y is not null
+         && x.schema.columnInfo.SequenceEqual(y.schema.columnInfo)
+         && rowCollectionComparer.Equals(x.addedRows, y.addedRows)
+         && rowCollectionComparer.Equals(x.deletedRows, y.deletedRows)
+         && rowCollectionComparer.Equals(x.newRows, y.newRows);
+   }
+
+   public int GetHashCode([DisallowNull] DataPacket obj) {
+      var hash = new HashCode();
+      hash.Add(obj.schema.columnNames.Length);
+      hash.Add(obj.addedRows.Count);
+      hash.Add(obj.deletedRows.Count);
+      return hash.ToHashCode();
+   }
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStreamCore/BlueData/IBlueRowFactory.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#nullable enable
+namespace Bts.DataStream;
+
+using BCG;
+
+public interface IBlueRowFactory<T> {
+   IBlueTableSchema Schema { get; }
+   IBlueRow GetBlueRow(T item);
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStreamCore/BlueData/IBlueTableIndex.cs

@@ -1,252 +1,252 @@
-using System;
-using System.Collections;
-//using BCG.Utilities;
+// using System;
+// using System.Collections;
+// //using BCG.Utilities;
 
-namespace BCG
-{
-   /// <summary>
-   /// Provides a multiple indexing mechanism, required to increase the peformance of the streams
-   /// </summary>
-   public class BlueTableIndexException : Exception
-   {
-      public BlueTableIndexException(string msg) : base(msg) { }
-   }
+// namespace BCG
+// {
+//    /// <summary>
+//    /// Provides a multiple indexing mechanism, required to increase the peformance of the streams
+//    /// </summary>
+//    public class BlueTableIndexException : Exception
+//    {
+//       public BlueTableIndexException(string msg) : base(msg) { }
+//    }
 
-   public interface IBlueTableIndex
-   {
-      void addRow(IBlueRow row);
-      void deleteRowOnPrimaryKey(object pkValue);
-      void deleteRowOnPrimaryKey(IBlueRow row);
-      void deleteRowOnBothKeys(object pkValue, object skValue);
-      void deleteRowOnBothKeys(IBlueRow row);
-      ArrayList searchRowOnPrimaryKey(object pkValue);
-      ArrayList searchRowOnPrimaryKey(IBlueRow row);
-      ArrayList searchRowOnBothKeys(object pkValue, object skValue);
-      ArrayList searchRowOnBothKeys(IBlueRow row);
+//    public interface IBlueTableIndex
+//    {
+//       void addRow(IBlueRow row);
+//       void deleteRowOnPrimaryKey(object pkValue);
+//       void deleteRowOnPrimaryKey(IBlueRow row);
+//       void deleteRowOnBothKeys(object pkValue, object skValue);
+//       void deleteRowOnBothKeys(IBlueRow row);
+//       ArrayList searchRowOnPrimaryKey(object pkValue);
+//       ArrayList searchRowOnPrimaryKey(IBlueRow row);
+//       ArrayList searchRowOnBothKeys(object pkValue, object skValue);
+//       ArrayList searchRowOnBothKeys(IBlueRow row);
 
 
-   }
+//    }
 
-   /*
-   public class BlueTableDoubleIndex : IBlueTableIndex
-   {
-      private IBlueRowCollection myTable;         
-      private string myPrimaryIndex;
-      private string mySecondaryIndex;
-      private Hashtable myHt = new Hashtable ();
-      
-      /// <summary>
-      /// Builds an index with 2 columns of the table acting as primary index and secondary index
-      /// respectively
-      /// </summary>
-      /// <param name="table">
-      /// table to index
-      /// </param>
-      /// <param name="primaryIndex">
-      /// primary key to index upon
-      /// </param>
-      /// <param name="secondaryIndex">
-      /// column serving as the secondary key
-      /// </param>
-      public BlueTableDoubleIndex (IBlueRowCollection table, string primaryIndex, string secondaryIndex)
-      {
-         myTable = table;
-         myPrimaryIndex = primaryIndex;
-         mySecondaryIndex = secondaryIndex;
-         myInit ();
-      }
-      
-      private void myInit()
-      {
-         foreach (IBlueRow row in myTable)
-            addRow (row);
-      }
+//    /*
+//    public class BlueTableDoubleIndex : IBlueTableIndex
+//    {
+//       private IBlueRowCollection myTable;         
+//       private string myPrimaryIndex;
+//       private string mySecondaryIndex;
+//       private Hashtable myHt = new Hashtable ();
 
-      /// <summary>
-      /// To add a row to the index
-      /// </summary>
-      /// <param name="row">
-      /// row to be added
-      /// </param>
-      public void addRow (IBlueRow row)
-      {
-         if (myHt[row[myPrimaryIndex]] != null)
-            ((Hashtable)(myHt[row[myPrimaryIndex]]))[row[mySecondaryIndex]] = row;
-         else
-         {
-            TimeManager.start ();
-            Hashtable ht = new Hashtable();
-            TimeManager.stop ();
-            ht[row[mySecondaryIndex]] = row;
-            myHt[row[myPrimaryIndex]] = ht;
-         }
-      }
+//       /// <summary>
+//       /// Builds an index with 2 columns of the table acting as primary index and secondary index
+//       /// respectively
+//       /// </summary>
+//       /// <param name="table">
+//       /// table to index
+//       /// </param>
+//       /// <param name="primaryIndex">
+//       /// primary key to index upon
+//       /// </param>
+//       /// <param name="secondaryIndex">
+//       /// column serving as the secondary key
+//       /// </param>
+//       public BlueTableDoubleIndex (IBlueRowCollection table, string primaryIndex, string secondaryIndex)
+//       {
+//          myTable = table;
+//          myPrimaryIndex = primaryIndex;
+//          mySecondaryIndex = secondaryIndex;
+//          myInit ();
+//       }
 
-      /// <summary>
-      /// If index or the primary key has already been deleted appropriate exceptions are thrown
-      /// </summary>
-      /// <param name="row"></param>
-      public void deleteRow (IBlueRow row)
-      {
-         if (myHt[row[myPrimaryIndex]] == null)
-         {
-            throw new BlueTableIndexException ("Theres no index (primary hash table key) for this index value");
-         }
-         ((Hashtable)(myHt[row[myPrimaryIndex]])).Remove(row[mySecondaryIndex]);
-         if (((Hashtable)(myHt[row[myPrimaryIndex]])).Keys.Count == 0)
-            myHt.Remove(row[myPrimaryIndex]);
-      }
+//       private void myInit()
+//       {
+//          foreach (IBlueRow row in myTable)
+//             addRow (row);
+//       }
 
-      /// <summary>
-      /// Returns an array of DataRow that match the primary key being passed as an argument
-      /// </summary>
-      /// <param name="o">
-      /// Primary Key of the table
-      /// </param>
-      /// <returns>
-      /// Array of rows matching the criteria
-      /// </returns>
-      public IBlueRow[] findValueFromPrimaryKey (object o)
-      {
-         object oht = myHt[o];
-         if (oht == null)
-            return new IBlueRow[0];
-         Hashtable ht = (Hashtable)oht;
-         IBlueRow[] rows = new IBlueRow[ht.Keys.Count];
-         ht.Values.CopyTo(rows, 0);
-         return rows;
-      }
+//       /// <summary>
+//       /// To add a row to the index
+//       /// </summary>
+//       /// <param name="row">
+//       /// row to be added
+//       /// </param>
+//       public void addRow (IBlueRow row)
+//       {
+//          if (myHt[row[myPrimaryIndex]] != null)
+//             ((Hashtable)(myHt[row[myPrimaryIndex]]))[row[mySecondaryIndex]] = row;
+//          else
+//          {
+//             TimeManager.start ();
+//             Hashtable ht = new Hashtable();
+//             TimeManager.stop ();
+//             ht[row[mySecondaryIndex]] = row;
+//             myHt[row[myPrimaryIndex]] = ht;
+//          }
+//       }
+
+//       /// <summary>
+//       /// If index or the primary key has already been deleted appropriate exceptions are thrown
+//       /// </summary>
+//       /// <param name="row"></param>
+//       public void deleteRow (IBlueRow row)
+//       {
+//          if (myHt[row[myPrimaryIndex]] == null)
+//          {
+//             throw new BlueTableIndexException ("Theres no index (primary hash table key) for this index value");
+//          }
+//          ((Hashtable)(myHt[row[myPrimaryIndex]])).Remove(row[mySecondaryIndex]);
+//          if (((Hashtable)(myHt[row[myPrimaryIndex]])).Keys.Count == 0)
+//             myHt.Remove(row[myPrimaryIndex]);
+//       }
+
+//       /// <summary>
+//       /// Returns an array of DataRow that match the primary key being passed as an argument
+//       /// </summary>
+//       /// <param name="o">
+//       /// Primary Key of the table
+//       /// </param>
+//       /// <returns>
+//       /// Array of rows matching the criteria
+//       /// </returns>
+//       public IBlueRow[] findValueFromPrimaryKey (object o)
+//       {
+//          object oht = myHt[o];
+//          if (oht == null)
+//             return new IBlueRow[0];
+//          Hashtable ht = (Hashtable)oht;
+//          IBlueRow[] rows = new IBlueRow[ht.Keys.Count];
+//          ht.Values.CopyTo(rows, 0);
+//          return rows;
+//       }
 
 
-      /// <summary>
-      /// returns as array of the primary keys
-      /// </summary>
-      /// <returns>
-      /// object[] of primary keys
-      /// </returns>
-      public Array getPrimaryKeys()
-      {
-         object[] retval = new object [myHt.Keys.Count];
-         myHt.Keys.CopyTo (retval, 0);
-         return retval;
-      }
-   }
-   */
+//       /// <summary>
+//       /// returns as array of the primary keys
+//       /// </summary>
+//       /// <returns>
+//       /// object[] of primary keys
+//       /// </returns>
+//       public Array getPrimaryKeys()
+//       {
+//          object[] retval = new object [myHt.Keys.Count];
+//          myHt.Keys.CopyTo (retval, 0);
+//          return retval;
+//       }
+//    }
+//    */
 
-   /// <summary>
-   /// Provides a 1-Level indexing structure.
-   /// </summary>
-   public class BlueTableSingleIndex : IBlueTableIndex
-   {
-      string myPrimaryKey;
-      string mySecondaryKey;
-      Hashtable myHt = new Hashtable();
+//    /// <summary>
+//    /// Provides a 1-Level indexing structure.
+//    /// </summary>
+//    public class BlueTableSingleIndex : IBlueTableIndex
+//    {
+//       string myPrimaryKey;
+//       string mySecondaryKey;
+//       Hashtable myHt = new Hashtable();
 
-      public BlueTableSingleIndex(string primaryKey, string secondaryKey)
-      {
-         myPrimaryKey = primaryKey;
-         mySecondaryKey = secondaryKey;
-      }
+//       public BlueTableSingleIndex(string primaryKey, string secondaryKey)
+//       {
+//          myPrimaryKey = primaryKey;
+//          mySecondaryKey = secondaryKey;
+//       }
 
-      /// <summary>
-      /// The primary key is the indexing key, and the secondary key is used as the key for
-      /// searching and hence deletion
-      /// </summary>
-      /// <param name="table"></param>
-      /// <param name="primaryKey"></param>
-      /// <param name="secondaryKey"></param>
-      public BlueTableSingleIndex(IBlueRowCollection table, string primaryKey, string secondaryKey)
-         : this(primaryKey, secondaryKey)
-      {
-         foreach (IBlueRow row in table)
-            addRow(row);
-      }
+//       /// <summary>
+//       /// The primary key is the indexing key, and the secondary key is used as the key for
+//       /// searching and hence deletion
+//       /// </summary>
+//       /// <param name="table"></param>
+//       /// <param name="primaryKey"></param>
+//       /// <param name="secondaryKey"></param>
+//       public BlueTableSingleIndex(IBlueRowCollection table, string primaryKey, string secondaryKey)
+//          : this(primaryKey, secondaryKey)
+//       {
+//          foreach (IBlueRow row in table)
+//             addRow(row);
+//       }
 
 
 
-      /// <summary>
-      /// Adds row to the indexing new structure
-      /// </summary>
-      /// <param name="row"></param>
-      public void addRow(IBlueRow row)
-      {
-         if (myHt[row[myPrimaryKey]] == null)
-            myHt[row[myPrimaryKey]] = new ArrayList();
-         ((ArrayList)(myHt[row[myPrimaryKey]])).Add(row);
-      }
+//       /// <summary>
+//       /// Adds row to the indexing new structure
+//       /// </summary>
+//       /// <param name="row"></param>
+//       public void addRow(IBlueRow row)
+//       {
+//          if (myHt[row[myPrimaryKey]] == null)
+//             myHt[row[myPrimaryKey]] = new ArrayList();
+//          ((ArrayList)(myHt[row[myPrimaryKey]])).Add(row);
+//       }
 
-      /// <summary>
-      /// Getts rows based on the Primary Key. Matching of the primary key is the only criteria
-      /// </summary>
-      /// <param name="row"></param>
-      /// <returns></returns>
-      public ArrayList searchRowOnPrimaryKey(IBlueRow row)
-      {
-         return searchRowOnPrimaryKey(row[myPrimaryKey]);
-      }
+//       /// <summary>
+//       /// Getts rows based on the Primary Key. Matching of the primary key is the only criteria
+//       /// </summary>
+//       /// <param name="row"></param>
+//       /// <returns></returns>
+//       public ArrayList searchRowOnPrimaryKey(IBlueRow row)
+//       {
+//          return searchRowOnPrimaryKey(row[myPrimaryKey]);
+//       }
 
-      public ArrayList searchRowOnPrimaryKey(object pkValue)
-      {
-         if (myHt[pkValue] == null)
-            return new ArrayList();
-         return (ArrayList)myHt[pkValue];
-      }
+//       public ArrayList searchRowOnPrimaryKey(object pkValue)
+//       {
+//          if (myHt[pkValue] == null)
+//             return new ArrayList();
+//          return (ArrayList)myHt[pkValue];
+//       }
 
-      /// <summary>
-      /// Gets rows based on the primary AND the secondary key
-      /// </summary>
-      /// <param name="row"></param>
-      /// <returns></returns>
-      public ArrayList searchRowOnBothKeys(IBlueRow row)
-      {
-         return searchRowOnBothKeys(row[myPrimaryKey], row[mySecondaryKey]);
-      }
+//       /// <summary>
+//       /// Gets rows based on the primary AND the secondary key
+//       /// </summary>
+//       /// <param name="row"></param>
+//       /// <returns></returns>
+//       public ArrayList searchRowOnBothKeys(IBlueRow row)
+//       {
+//          return searchRowOnBothKeys(row[myPrimaryKey], row[mySecondaryKey]);
+//       }
 
-      public ArrayList searchRowOnBothKeys(object pkValue, object skValue)
-      {
-         if (myHt[pkValue] == null)
-            return new ArrayList();
-         ArrayList matchingList = (ArrayList)myHt[pkValue];
-         ArrayList retVal = new ArrayList();
-         foreach (IBlueRow r in matchingList)
-            if (r[mySecondaryKey].Equals(skValue))
-               retVal.Add(r);
-         return retVal;
-      }
+//       public ArrayList searchRowOnBothKeys(object pkValue, object skValue)
+//       {
+//          if (myHt[pkValue] == null)
+//             return new ArrayList();
+//          ArrayList matchingList = (ArrayList)myHt[pkValue];
+//          ArrayList retVal = new ArrayList();
+//          foreach (IBlueRow r in matchingList)
+//             if (r[mySecondaryKey].Equals(skValue))
+//                retVal.Add(r);
+//          return retVal;
+//       }
 
 
-      /// <summary>
-      /// Deletes rows based on the primary key only
-      /// </summary>
-      /// <param name="row"></param>
-      public void deleteRowOnPrimaryKey(IBlueRow row)
-      {
-         deleteRowOnPrimaryKey(row[myPrimaryKey]);
-      }
+//       /// <summary>
+//       /// Deletes rows based on the primary key only
+//       /// </summary>
+//       /// <param name="row"></param>
+//       public void deleteRowOnPrimaryKey(IBlueRow row)
+//       {
+//          deleteRowOnPrimaryKey(row[myPrimaryKey]);
+//       }
 
-      public void deleteRowOnPrimaryKey(object pkValue)
-      {
-         if (myHt[pkValue] == null)
-            throw new BlueTableIndexException("Key to be deleted was not found in the index");
-         myHt.Remove(pkValue);
-      }
+//       public void deleteRowOnPrimaryKey(object pkValue)
+//       {
+//          if (myHt[pkValue] == null)
+//             throw new BlueTableIndexException("Key to be deleted was not found in the index");
+//          myHt.Remove(pkValue);
+//       }
 
-      public void deleteRowOnBothKeys(IBlueRow row)
-      {
-         deleteRowOnBothKeys(row[myPrimaryKey], row[mySecondaryKey]);
-      }
+//       public void deleteRowOnBothKeys(IBlueRow row)
+//       {
+//          deleteRowOnBothKeys(row[myPrimaryKey], row[mySecondaryKey]);
+//       }
 
-      public void deleteRowOnBothKeys(object pkValue, object skValue)
-      {
-         if (myHt[pkValue] == null)
-            throw new BlueTableIndexException("Key to be deleted was not found in the index");
-         ArrayList matchingList = (ArrayList)myHt[pkValue];
-         ArrayList aux = new ArrayList();
-         foreach (IBlueRow r in matchingList)
-            if (r[mySecondaryKey].Equals(skValue))
-               aux.Add(r);
-         foreach (IBlueRow r in aux)
-            matchingList.Remove(r);
-      }
-   }
-}
+//       public void deleteRowOnBothKeys(object pkValue, object skValue)
+//       {
+//          if (myHt[pkValue] == null)
+//             throw new BlueTableIndexException("Key to be deleted was not found in the index");
+//          ArrayList matchingList = (ArrayList)myHt[pkValue];
+//          ArrayList aux = new ArrayList();
+//          foreach (IBlueRow r in matchingList)
+//             if (r[mySecondaryKey].Equals(skValue))
+//                aux.Add(r);
+//          foreach (IBlueRow r in aux)
+//             matchingList.Remove(r);
+//       }
+//    }
+// }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStreamCore/BlueData/IMutableBlueRowFactory.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#nullable enable
+namespace Bts.DataStream;
+
+using BCG;
+
+public interface IMutableBlueRowFactory<T> : IBlueRowFactory<T> {
+   MutableBlueRow GetMutableBlueRow(T item);
+
+   IBlueRow IBlueRowFactory<T>.GetBlueRow(T item) =>
+      GetMutableBlueRow(item);
+}

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStreamCore/BlueData/LookupTableSchema.cs

@@ -1,324 +1,324 @@
-using System;
-using System.Data;
-using System.Collections;
-using System.IO;
-using System.Reflection;
-using System.Collections.Generic;
-using System.Linq;
+// using System;
+// using System.Data;
+// using System.Collections;
+// using System.IO;
+// using System.Reflection;
+// using System.Collections.Generic;
+// using System.Linq;
 
-using BCG.Utilities.General;
+// using BCG.Utilities.General;
 
-namespace BCG
-{
-   /// <summary>
-   /// The LookupTableSchema is an immutable schema holder. Once created it cannot be modified. It can be created
-   /// either from a DataTable or from an Array of ColumnInfo. The methods through which the user can access it
-   /// are the indexers (both order and name based), and the property columnInfo and columnNames, that return
-   /// the respective data, sorted according to the ColumnOrder.
-   /// </summary>
-   [Serializable]
-   public class LookupTableSchema : IBlueTableSchema
-   {
-      public class LookupTableSchemaSerializationHelper
-      {
-         public static object parse(Type t, string data)
-         {
-            if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BOOL)
-               return Boolean.Parse(data);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BYTE)
-               return Byte.Parse(data);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.CHAR)
-               return char.Parse(data);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DATETIME)
-               return DateTime.Parse(data);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DOUBLE)
-               return Double.Parse(data);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DECIMAL)
-               return Decimal.Parse(data);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.INT)
-               return int.Parse(data);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.LONG)
-               return long.Parse(data);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.SBYTE)
-               return SByte.Parse(data);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.STRING)
-               return data;
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.UINT)
-               return uint.Parse(data);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.ULONG)
-               return ulong.Parse(data);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.SINGLE)
-               return Single.Parse(data);
-            else
-               throw new ApplicationException("Can not be parsed");
-         }
-         public static void serialize(BinaryWriter bw, Type t, object o)
-         {
-            if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BOOL)
-               bw.Write((bool)o);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BYTE)
-               bw.Write((byte)o);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.CHAR)
-               bw.Write((char)o);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DATETIME)
-               bw.Write(((DateTime)o).Ticks);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DOUBLE)
-               bw.Write((double)o);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DECIMAL)
-               bw.Write((decimal)o);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.INT)
-               bw.Write((int)o);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.LONG)
-               bw.Write((long)o);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.SBYTE)
-               bw.Write((sbyte)o);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.STRING)
-               bw.Write(o as string);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.SINGLE)
-               bw.Write((Single)o);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BYTEARRAY)
-            {
-               byte[] bs = o as byte[];
-               bw.Write(bs.Length);
-               bw.Write(bs);
-            }
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.UINT)
-               bw.Write((uint)o);
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.ULONG)
-               bw.Write((ulong)o);
-            else
-               throw new ApplicationException("Unsupported type");
-         }
+// namespace BCG
+// {
+//    /// <summary>
+//    /// The LookupTableSchema is an immutable schema holder. Once created it cannot be modified. It can be created
+//    /// either from a DataTable or from an Array of ColumnInfo. The methods through which the user can access it
+//    /// are the indexers (both order and name based), and the property columnInfo and columnNames, that return
+//    /// the respective data, sorted according to the ColumnOrder.
+//    /// </summary>
+//    [Serializable]
+//    public class LookupTableSchema : IBlueTableSchema
+//    {
+//       public class LookupTableSchemaSerializationHelper
+//       {
+//          public static object parse(Type t, string data)
+//          {
+//             if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BOOL)
+//                return Boolean.Parse(data);
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BYTE)
+//                return Byte.Parse(data);
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.CHAR)
+//                return char.Parse(data);
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DATETIME)
+//                return DateTime.Parse(data);
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DOUBLE)
+//                return Double.Parse(data);
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DECIMAL)
+//                return Decimal.Parse(data);
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.INT)
+//                return int.Parse(data);
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.LONG)
+//                return long.Parse(data);
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.SBYTE)
+//                return SByte.Parse(data);
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.STRING)
+//                return data;
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.UINT)
+//                return uint.Parse(data);
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.ULONG)
+//                return ulong.Parse(data);
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.SINGLE)
+//                return Single.Parse(data);
+//             else
+//                throw new ApplicationException("Can not be parsed");
+//          }
+//          public static void serialize(BinaryWriter bw, Type t, object o)
+//          {
+//             if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BOOL)
+//                bw.Write((bool)o);
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BYTE)
+//                bw.Write((byte)o);
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.CHAR)
+//                bw.Write((char)o);
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DATETIME)
+//                bw.Write(((DateTime)o).Ticks);
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DOUBLE)
+//                bw.Write((double)o);
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DECIMAL)
+//                bw.Write((decimal)o);
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.INT)
+//                bw.Write((int)o);
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.LONG)
+//                bw.Write((long)o);
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.SBYTE)
+//                bw.Write((sbyte)o);
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.STRING)
+//                bw.Write(o as string);
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.SINGLE)
+//                bw.Write((Single)o);
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BYTEARRAY)
+//             {
+//                byte[] bs = o as byte[];
+//                bw.Write(bs.Length);
+//                bw.Write(bs);
+//             }
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.UINT)
+//                bw.Write((uint)o);
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.ULONG)
+//                bw.Write((ulong)o);
+//             else
+//                throw new ApplicationException("Unsupported type");
+//          }
 
-         public static object deserialize(BinaryReader br, Type t)
-         {
-            if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BOOL)
-               return br.ReadBoolean();
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BYTE)
-               return br.ReadByte();
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.CHAR)
-               return br.ReadChar();
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DATETIME)
-               return new DateTime(br.ReadInt64());
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DOUBLE)
-               return br.ReadDouble();
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DECIMAL)
-               return br.ReadDecimal();
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.INT)
-               return br.ReadInt32();
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.LONG)
-               return br.ReadInt64();
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.SBYTE)
-               return br.ReadSByte();
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.STRING)
-               return br.ReadString();
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BYTEARRAY)
-               return br.ReadBytes(br.ReadInt32());
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.UINT)
-               return br.ReadUInt32();
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.ULONG)
-               return br.ReadUInt64();
-            else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.SINGLE)
-               return br.ReadSingle();
-            else
-               throw new ApplicationException("Unsupported type");
-         }
-      }
+//          public static object deserialize(BinaryReader br, Type t)
+//          {
+//             if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BOOL)
+//                return br.ReadBoolean();
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BYTE)
+//                return br.ReadByte();
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.CHAR)
+//                return br.ReadChar();
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DATETIME)
+//                return new DateTime(br.ReadInt64());
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DOUBLE)
+//                return br.ReadDouble();
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.DECIMAL)
+//                return br.ReadDecimal();
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.INT)
+//                return br.ReadInt32();
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.LONG)
+//                return br.ReadInt64();
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.SBYTE)
+//                return br.ReadSByte();
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.STRING)
+//                return br.ReadString();
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BYTEARRAY)
+//                return br.ReadBytes(br.ReadInt32());
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.UINT)
+//                return br.ReadUInt32();
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.ULONG)
+//                return br.ReadUInt64();
+//             else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.SINGLE)
+//                return br.ReadSingle();
+//             else
+//                throw new ApplicationException("Unsupported type");
+//          }
+//       }
 
-      protected Hashtable myIndexByColName = new Hashtable();
-      protected ColumnInfo[] myIndexByColOrder;
-      private string[] myTableColNames;
-      private BlueRowLookupGroup[] myLookupGroups;
-      protected string myTableName;
+//       protected Hashtable myIndexByColName = new Hashtable();
+//       protected ColumnInfo[] myIndexByColOrder;
+//       private string[] myTableColNames;
+//       private BlueRowLookupGroup[] myLookupGroups;
+//       protected string myTableName;
 
-      public LookupTableSchema() { }
+//       public LookupTableSchema() { }
 
 
-      public LookupTableSchema(string tableName, ColumnInfo[] cis, BlueRowLookupGroup[] groups)
-      {
-         myConstruct(tableName, cis, groups);
-      }
+//       public LookupTableSchema(string tableName, ColumnInfo[] cis, BlueRowLookupGroup[] groups)
+//       {
+//          myConstruct(tableName, cis, groups);
+//       }
 
-      private void myConstruct(string tableName, ColumnInfo[] cis, BlueRowLookupGroup[] groups)
-      {
-         myIndexByColOrder = new ColumnInfo[cis.Length];
-         myTableName = tableName;
-         foreach (ColumnInfo ci in cis)
-         {
-            myIndexByColOrder[ci.colNo] = ci;
-            myIndexByColName[ci.colName] = ci;
-         }
-         myLookupGroups = groups;
+//       private void myConstruct(string tableName, ColumnInfo[] cis, BlueRowLookupGroup[] groups)
+//       {
+//          myIndexByColOrder = new ColumnInfo[cis.Length];
+//          myTableName = tableName;
+//          foreach (ColumnInfo ci in cis)
+//          {
+//             myIndexByColOrder[ci.colNo] = ci;
+//             myIndexByColName[ci.colName] = ci;
+//          }
+//          myLookupGroups = groups;
 
-         foreach (BlueRowLookupGroup group in groups)
-         {
-            group.buildEntrySchema(this);
+//          foreach (BlueRowLookupGroup group in groups)
+//          {
+//             group.buildEntrySchema(this);
 
 
-         }
-      }
+//          }
+//       }
 
 
 
 
-      public ColumnInfo this[string colName]
-      {
-         get
-         {
-            object retVal = myIndexByColName[colName];
-            return retVal != null ? retVal as ColumnInfo : null;
-         }
-      }
+//       public ColumnInfo this[string colName]
+//       {
+//          get
+//          {
+//             object retVal = myIndexByColName[colName];
+//             return retVal != null ? retVal as ColumnInfo : null;
+//          }
+//       }
 
-      public BlueRowLookupGroup[] lookupGroups
-      {
-         get { return myLookupGroups; }
+//       public BlueRowLookupGroup[] lookupGroups
+//       {
+//          get { return myLookupGroups; }
 
-      }
-      public ColumnInfo this[int colNo]
-      {
-         get { return myIndexByColOrder[colNo]; }
-      }
+//       }
+//       public ColumnInfo this[int colNo]
+//       {
+//          get { return myIndexByColOrder[colNo]; }
+//       }
 
-      /// <summary>
-      /// The returned Array is sorted according to the Column No
-      /// </summary>
-      public string[] columnNames
-      {
-         get
-         {
-            if (myTableColNames == null)
-            {
-               myTableColNames = new string[myIndexByColName.Count];
-               foreach (DictionaryEntry de in myIndexByColName)
-               {
-                  ColumnInfo temp = (ColumnInfo)de.Value;
-                  myTableColNames[temp.colNo] = temp.colName;
-               }
-            }
-            return myTableColNames;
-         }
-      }
+//       /// <summary>
+//       /// The returned Array is sorted according to the Column No
+//       /// </summary>
+//       public string[] columnNames
+//       {
+//          get
+//          {
+//             if (myTableColNames == null)
+//             {
+//                myTableColNames = new string[myIndexByColName.Count];
+//                foreach (DictionaryEntry de in myIndexByColName)
+//                {
+//                   ColumnInfo temp = (ColumnInfo)de.Value;
+//                   myTableColNames[temp.colNo] = temp.colName;
+//                }
+//             }
+//             return myTableColNames;
+//          }
+//       }
 
-      /// <summary>
-      /// The returned Array is sorted according to the Column No
-      /// </summary>
-      public ColumnInfo[] columnInfo
-      {
-         get { return myIndexByColOrder; }
-      }
+//       /// <summary>
+//       /// The returned Array is sorted according to the Column No
+//       /// </summary>
+//       public ColumnInfo[] columnInfo
+//       {
+//          get { return myIndexByColOrder; }
+//       }
 
-      public string tableName { get { return myTableName; } }
+//       public string tableName { get { return myTableName; } }
 
 
-      #region ISerializedType methods
-      public void serialize(BinaryWriter bw)
-      {
-         bw.Write(columnNames.Length);
-         bw.Write(tableName);
+//       #region ISerializedType methods
+//       public void serialize(BinaryWriter bw)
+//       {
+//          bw.Write(columnNames.Length);
+//          bw.Write(tableName);
 
-         //first, write the column names
-         foreach (ColumnInfo ci in columnInfo)
-         {
-            bw.Write(ci.colName);
-            bw.Write(ci.colType.ToString());
-            if (ci.isConstant)
-            {
-               bw.Write(true);
-               LookupTableSchemaSerializationHelper.serialize(bw, ci.colType, ci.colValue);
-            }
-            else
-            {
-               bw.Write(false);
-               bw.Write(ci.lookupTableGroup);
-            }
+//          //first, write the column names
+//          foreach (ColumnInfo ci in columnInfo)
+//          {
+//             bw.Write(ci.colName);
+//             bw.Write(ci.colType.ToString());
+//             if (ci.isConstant)
+//             {
+//                bw.Write(true);
+//                LookupTableSchemaSerializationHelper.serialize(bw, ci.colType, ci.colValue);
+//             }
+//             else
+//             {
+//                bw.Write(false);
+//                bw.Write(ci.lookupTableGroup);
+//             }
 
-         }
+//          }
 
-         //this is here for error checking
-         bw.Write(myLookupGroups.Length);
-         //now, write the size of each lookup table group
-         foreach (BlueRowLookupGroup group in myLookupGroups)
-         {
-            bw.Write(group.groupNumber);
-            bw.Write(group.tableSize);
-            bw.Write(group.groupColNames.Length);
-            foreach (string colName in group.groupColNames)
-            {
-               //write the index of this column in the table
-               bw.Write(this[colName].colNo);
+//          //this is here for error checking
+//          bw.Write(myLookupGroups.Length);
+//          //now, write the size of each lookup table group
+//          foreach (BlueRowLookupGroup group in myLookupGroups)
+//          {
+//             bw.Write(group.groupNumber);
+//             bw.Write(group.tableSize);
+//             bw.Write(group.groupColNames.Length);
+//             foreach (string colName in group.groupColNames)
+//             {
+//                //write the index of this column in the table
+//                bw.Write(this[colName].colNo);
 
-            }
+//             }
 
 
-         }
+//          }
 
 
 
-      }
+//       }
 
-      public void deserialze(BinaryReader br)
-      {
-         int numCols = br.ReadInt32();
-         //these are the final output columns that will be created
-         ColumnInfo[] columnInfos = new ColumnInfo[numCols];
+//       public void deserialze(BinaryReader br)
+//       {
+//          int numCols = br.ReadInt32();
+//          //these are the final output columns that will be created
+//          ColumnInfo[] columnInfos = new ColumnInfo[numCols];
 
-         Dictionary<int, List<string>> colLookupGroupMap = new Dictionary<int, List<string>>();
+//          Dictionary<int, List<string>> colLookupGroupMap = new Dictionary<int, List<string>>();
 
 
-         string tableName = br.ReadString();
-         for (int colNo = 0; colNo < numCols; ++colNo)
-         {
-            string colName = br.ReadString();
-            Type colType = TypeInstanceLoader.loadType(br.ReadString(), true);
-            bool colIsConst = br.ReadBoolean();
-            if (colIsConst)
-            {
-               columnInfos[colNo] = new ColumnInfo(colName, colNo, LookupTableSchemaSerializationHelper.deserialize(br, colType));
+//          string tableName = br.ReadString();
+//          for (int colNo = 0; colNo < numCols; ++colNo)
+//          {
+//             string colName = br.ReadString();
+//             Type colType = TypeInstanceLoader.loadType(br.ReadString(), true);
+//             bool colIsConst = br.ReadBoolean();
+//             if (colIsConst)
+//             {
+//                columnInfos[colNo] = new ColumnInfo(colName, colNo, LookupTableSchemaSerializationHelper.deserialize(br, colType));
 
-            }
-            else
-            {
-               short thisColGroup = br.ReadInt16();
-               columnInfos[colNo] = new ColumnInfo(colName, colNo, colType, thisColGroup);
-            }
-         }
+//             }
+//             else
+//             {
+//                short thisColGroup = br.ReadInt16();
+//                columnInfos[colNo] = new ColumnInfo(colName, colNo, colType, thisColGroup);
+//             }
+//          }
 
-         int numGroups = br.ReadInt32();
-         BlueRowLookupGroup[] theGroups = new BlueRowLookupGroup[numGroups];
+//          int numGroups = br.ReadInt32();
+//          BlueRowLookupGroup[] theGroups = new BlueRowLookupGroup[numGroups];
 
-         for (int group = 0; group < numGroups; ++group)
-         {
-            short groupNo = br.ReadInt16();
-            short groupSizeInBits = br.ReadInt16();
-            int numColsInGroup = br.ReadInt32();
-            int[] groupCols = new int[numColsInGroup];
-            string[] groupColNames = new string[numColsInGroup];
-            for (int col = 0; col < numColsInGroup; ++col)
-            {
-               groupCols[col] = br.ReadInt32();
-               groupColNames[col] = columnInfos[groupCols[col]].colName;
-            }
+//          for (int group = 0; group < numGroups; ++group)
+//          {
+//             short groupNo = br.ReadInt16();
+//             short groupSizeInBits = br.ReadInt16();
+//             int numColsInGroup = br.ReadInt32();
+//             int[] groupCols = new int[numColsInGroup];
+//             string[] groupColNames = new string[numColsInGroup];
+//             for (int col = 0; col < numColsInGroup; ++col)
+//             {
+//                groupCols[col] = br.ReadInt32();
+//                groupColNames[col] = columnInfos[groupCols[col]].colName;
+//             }
 
-            //create the group
-            theGroups[groupNo] = new BlueRowLookupGroup(groupNo, groupSizeInBits, groupColNames);
+//             //create the group
+//             theGroups[groupNo] = new BlueRowLookupGroup(groupNo, groupSizeInBits, groupColNames);
 
 
-         }
+//          }
 
 
-         myConstruct(tableName, columnInfos, theGroups);
+//          myConstruct(tableName, columnInfos, theGroups);
 
 
 
-      }
+//       }
 
-      public int getSerializedSize()
-      {
-         throw new NotImplementedException("Feature for provided constant values to" +
-            "non-primitive types in schema, not provided as of now");
-      }
+//       public int getSerializedSize()
+//       {
+//          throw new NotImplementedException("Feature for provided constant values to" +
+//             "non-primitive types in schema, not provided as of now");
+//       }
 
-      #endregion
-   }
-}
+//       #endregion
+//    }
+// }

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStreamCore/BlueData/SerializedBlueTableSchema.cs

@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ using System.IO;
 using BCG.Utilities.General;
 //using BCG.Utilities;
 
-namespace BCG
-{
+namespace BCG {
     /// <summary>
     /// The SerializedBlueTableSchema is an immutable schema holder. Once created it cannot be modified. It can be created
     /// either from a DataTable or from an Array of ColumnInfo. The methods through which the user can access it
@@ -17,12 +16,9 @@ namespace BCG
     /// memory streams, and uses this schema to unpack the values when they are needed. 
     /// </summary>
     [Serializable]
-    public class SerializedBlueTableSchema : IBlueTableSchema
-    {
-        public class SerializedBlueTableSchemaSerializationHelper
-        {
-            public static object parse(Type t, string data)
-            {
+    public class SerializedBlueTableSchema : IBlueTableSchema {
+        public class SerializedBlueTableSchemaSerializationHelper {
+            public static object parse(Type t, string data) {
                 if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BOOL)
                     return Boolean.Parse(data);
                 else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BYTE)
@@ -52,8 +48,7 @@ namespace BCG
                 else
                     throw new ApplicationException("Can not be parsed");
             }
-            public static void serialize(BinaryWriter bw, Type t, object o)
-            {
+            public static void serialize(BinaryWriter bw, Type t, object o) {
                 if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BOOL)
                     bw.Write((bool)o);
                 else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BYTE)
@@ -76,13 +71,11 @@ namespace BCG
                     bw.Write(o as string);
                 else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.SINGLE)
                     bw.Write((Single)o);
-                else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BYTEARRAY)
-                {
+                else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BYTEARRAY) {
                     byte[] bs = o as byte[];
                     bw.Write(bs.Length);
                     bw.Write(bs);
-                }
-                else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.UINT)
+                } else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.UINT)
                     bw.Write((uint)o);
                 else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.ULONG)
                     bw.Write((ulong)o);
@@ -90,8 +83,7 @@ namespace BCG
                     throw new ApplicationException("Unsupported type");
             }
 
-            public static object deserialize(BinaryReader br, Type t)
-            {
+            public static object deserialize(BinaryReader br, Type t) {
                 if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BOOL)
                     return br.ReadBoolean();
                 else if (t == BlueDataValidTypes.BYTE)
@@ -132,45 +124,37 @@ namespace BCG
         public SerializedBlueTableSchema() { }
 
         //copies the schema from an existing schema, building the dispatch table
-        public SerializedBlueTableSchema(IBlueTableSchema toCopy)
-        {
+        public SerializedBlueTableSchema(IBlueTableSchema toCopy) {
             int numCols = toCopy.columnInfo.Length;
             ColumnInfo[] theColumns = new ColumnInfo[toCopy.columnInfo.Length];
-            foreach (ColumnInfo toCopyCI in toCopy.columnInfo)
-            {
+            foreach (ColumnInfo toCopyCI in toCopy.columnInfo) {
                 theColumns[toCopyCI.colNo] = toCopyCI;
             }
             myConstruct(theColumns, toCopy.tableName);
         }
 
-        public SerializedBlueTableSchema(DataTable table)
-        {
+        public SerializedBlueTableSchema(DataTable table) {
             ColumnInfo[] theseCols = new ColumnInfo[table.Columns.Count];
             myTableName = table.TableName;
-            foreach (DataColumn col in table.Columns)
-            {
+            foreach (DataColumn col in table.Columns) {
                 theseCols[col.Ordinal] = new ColumnInfo(col.ColumnName, col.Ordinal, col.DataType);
             }
             myConstruct(theseCols, myTableName);
         }
 
-        public SerializedBlueTableSchema(ColumnInfo[] cis, string tableName)
-        {
+        public SerializedBlueTableSchema(ColumnInfo[] cis, string tableName) {
             myConstruct(cis, tableName);
         }
 
-        public void serializeObject(object data, BinaryWriter bw, int colNo)
-        {
+        public void serializeObject(object data, BinaryWriter bw, int colNo) {
             mySerializeDispatchTable[colNo](data, bw);
 
         }
 
-        private void myConstruct(ColumnInfo[] cis, string tableName)
-        {
+        private void myConstruct(ColumnInfo[] cis, string tableName) {
             myIndexByColOrder = new ColumnInfo[cis.Length];
             myTableName = tableName;
-            foreach (ColumnInfo ci in cis)
-            {
+            foreach (ColumnInfo ci in cis) {
                 myIndexByColOrder[ci.colNo] = ci;
                 myIndexByColName[ci.colName] = ci;
             }
@@ -179,32 +163,25 @@ namespace BCG
 
         public SerializedBlueTableSchema(string tableName, params ColumnInfo[] cis) : this(cis, tableName) { }
 
-        public ColumnInfo this[string colName]
-        {
-            get
-            {
+        public ColumnInfo this[string colName] {
+            get {
                 object retVal = myIndexByColName[colName];
                 return retVal != null ? retVal as ColumnInfo : null;
             }
         }
 
-        public ColumnInfo this[int colNo]
-        {
+        public ColumnInfo this[int colNo] {
             get { return myIndexByColOrder[colNo]; }
         }
 
         /// <summary>
         /// The returned Array is sorted according to the Column No
         /// </summary>
-        public string[] columnNames
-        {
-            get
-            {
-                if (myTableColNames == null)
-                {
+        public string[] columnNames {
+            get {
+                if (myTableColNames == null) {
                     myTableColNames = new string[myIndexByColName.Count];
-                    foreach (DictionaryEntry de in myIndexByColName)
-                    {
+                    foreach (DictionaryEntry de in myIndexByColName) {
                         ColumnInfo temp = (ColumnInfo)de.Value;
                         myTableColNames[temp.colNo] = temp.colName;
                     }
@@ -216,64 +193,46 @@ namespace BCG
         /// <summary>
         /// The returned Array is sorted according to the Column No
         /// </summary>
-        public ColumnInfo[] columnInfo
-        {
+        public ColumnInfo[] columnInfo {
             get { return myIndexByColOrder; }
         }
 
         public string tableName { get { return myTableName; } }
 
 
-        public int IdColumn
-        {
+        public int IdColumn {
             get { return myIdCol; }
         }
 
 
         #region ISerializedType methods
-        public void serialize(BinaryWriter bw)
-        {
+        public void serialize(BinaryWriter bw) {
             bw.Write(columnNames.Length);
             bw.Write(tableName);
-            foreach (ColumnInfo ci in columnInfo)
-            {
+            foreach (ColumnInfo ci in columnInfo) {
                 bw.Write(ci.colName);
                 bw.Write(ci.colType.ToString());
-                if (ci.isConstant)
-                {
-                    bw.Write(true);
-                    SerializedBlueTableSchemaSerializationHelper.serialize(bw, ci.colType, ci.colValue);
-                }
-                else
-                {
-                    bw.Write(false);
-                }
+                bw.Write(false);
             }
         }
 
-        public void deserialze(BinaryReader br)
-        {
+        public void deserialze(BinaryReader br) {
             ColumnInfo[] cis = new ColumnInfo[br.ReadInt32()];
             string name = br.ReadString();
-            for (int i = 0; i < cis.Length; i++)
-            {
+            for (int i = 0; i < cis.Length; i++) {
                 string colName = br.ReadString();
                 Type t = TypeInstanceLoader.loadType(br.ReadString(), true);
                 bool isConstant = br.ReadBoolean();
-                if (isConstant)
-                {
-                    cis[i] = new ColumnInfo(colName, i, t, SerializedBlueTableSchemaSerializationHelper.deserialize(br, t));
-                }
-                else
-                {
+                if (isConstant) {
+                    cis[i] = new ColumnInfo(colName, i, t);
+                } else {
                     cis[i] = new ColumnInfo(colName, i, t);
                 }
             }
             myConstruct(cis, name);
         }
 
-        public int getSerializedSize()
-        {
+        public int getSerializedSize() {
             throw new NotImplementedException("Feature for provided constant values to" +
                "non-primitive types in schema, not provided as of now");
         }
@@ -282,8 +241,7 @@ namespace BCG
 
 
         //builds a dispatch table used to pull values out of the memory streams in the rows. 
-        private void myBuildDispatchTable()
-        {
+        private void myBuildDispatchTable() {
             int numCols = myIndexByColOrder.Length;
             mySerializeDispatchTable = new SerializeDelegate[numCols];
             myPullFromByteBufferDispatchTable = new PullFromByteBufferDelegate[numCols];
@@ -292,18 +250,14 @@ namespace BCG
 
             myIdCol = idColumn.colNo;
 
-            for (int col = 0; col < numCols; ++col)
-            {
+            for (int col = 0; col < numCols; ++col) {
                 Type thisColType = myIndexByColOrder[col].colType;
                 //we don't store serializers for the id column, or string columns.
-                if (col == myIdCol || thisColType == typeof(string))
-                {
+                if (col == myIdCol || thisColType == typeof(string)) {
                     mySerializeDispatchTable[col] = null;
                     myColumnSizesTable[col] = 0;
                     myPullFromByteBufferDispatchTable[col] = null;
-                }
-                else
-                {
+                } else {
                     mySerializeDispatchTable[col] = myGetDispatchMethodSerialize(thisColType);
                     myPullFromByteBufferDispatchTable[col] = myGetDispatchMethodPullFromBuffer(thisColType);
                     myColumnSizesTable[col] = BlueDataValidTypes.getValueTypeSize(thisColType);
@@ -315,16 +269,14 @@ namespace BCG
         }
 
 
-        public int getNullMapSize()
-        {
+        public int getNullMapSize() {
             int numCols = myIndexByColOrder.Length;
             return Convert.ToInt32(Math.Ceiling((Convert.ToDouble(numCols) / 8.0)));
         }
 
         //this function reads the null array from inside the byte array.
         //it has to copy the bytes over. 
-        public BitArray getNullMap(byte[] theBytes)
-        {
+        public BitArray getNullMap(byte[] theBytes) {
             int nullMapSize = getNullMapSize();
             //the null map starts after the id, so that we have instant access to the id. 
             int byteCursor = BlueDataValidTypes.getValueTypeSize(typeof(Int32));
@@ -336,8 +288,7 @@ namespace BCG
         }
         //gets the value either from the bytes stream but only if the value is not a string. 
         //doesn't work if you're getting the id.
-        public unsafe object getValueNonString(byte[] theBytes, int colNo)
-        {
+        public unsafe object getValueNonString(byte[] theBytes, int colNo) {
             if (colNo == myIdCol)
                 throw new BlueDataException("Error: do not use getValueNonString to try to fetch the id of a row");
             BitArray nullMap = getNullMap(theBytes);
@@ -345,8 +296,7 @@ namespace BCG
                 return DBNull.Value;
             //the rest of the row starts after the id and the null map
             int thisOffset = BlueDataValidTypes.getValueTypeSize(typeof(Int32)) + getNullMapSize();
-            for (int currentColumn = 0; currentColumn < colNo; ++currentColumn)
-            {
+            for (int currentColumn = 0; currentColumn < colNo; ++currentColumn) {
                 //pull the data from the binary reader, but only if this type is not null or a string
                 //if the type wer'e looking for is a string, it would have been returned already by the accesor
                 //in the bluerow. 
@@ -357,16 +307,14 @@ namespace BCG
 
                     thisOffset += myColumnSizesTable[currentColumn];
             }
-            fixed (byte* thisBytePtr = &theBytes[thisOffset])
-            {
+            fixed (byte* thisBytePtr = &theBytes[thisOffset]) {
                 return myPullFromByteBufferDispatchTable[colNo](thisBytePtr);
             }
 
 
         }
 
-        public unsafe object[] getAllValues(byte[] theBytes, string[] stringArray)
-        {
+        public unsafe object[] getAllValues(byte[] theBytes, string[] stringArray) {
             int numCols = myColumnSizesTable.Length;
             object[] theObjs = new Object[numCols];
 
@@ -374,8 +322,7 @@ namespace BCG
 
             int thisOffset = BlueDataValidTypes.getValueTypeSize(typeof(Int32)) + getNullMapSize();
             int thisStringNo = 0;
-            for (int currentColumn = 0; currentColumn < numCols; ++currentColumn)
-            {
+            for (int currentColumn = 0; currentColumn < numCols; ++currentColumn) {
                 //pull the data from the binary reader, but only if this type is not null or a string
                 //if the type wer'e looking for is a string, it would have been returned already by the accesor
                 //in the bluerow. 
@@ -384,10 +331,8 @@ namespace BCG
                     theObjs[currentColumn] = DBNull.Value;
                 else if (myIndexByColOrder[currentColumn].colType == typeof(string))
                     theObjs[currentColumn] = stringArray[thisStringNo++];
-                else if (currentColumn != myIdCol)
-                {
-                    fixed (byte* thisGuy = &theBytes[thisOffset])
-                    {
+                else if (currentColumn != myIdCol) {
+                    fixed (byte* thisGuy = &theBytes[thisOffset]) {
                         theObjs[currentColumn] = myPullFromByteBufferDispatchTable[currentColumn](thisGuy);
                     }
                     thisOffset += myColumnSizesTable[currentColumn];
@@ -416,8 +361,7 @@ namespace BCG
         private void mySerializeDateTime(object data, BinaryWriter bw) { bw.Write(((DateTime)data).ToOADate()); }
         private void mySerializeSingle(object data, BinaryWriter bw) { bw.Write((Single)data); }
 
-        private SerializeDelegate myGetDispatchMethodSerialize(Type t)
-        {
+        private SerializeDelegate myGetDispatchMethodSerialize(Type t) {
             if (t.Equals(BlueDataValidTypes.INT)) return new SerializeDelegate(mySerializeInt32);
             else if (t.Equals(BlueDataValidTypes.DOUBLE)) return new SerializeDelegate(mySerializeDouble);
             else if (t.Equals(BlueDataValidTypes.CHAR)) return new SerializeDelegate(mySerializeChar);
@@ -448,16 +392,14 @@ namespace BCG
         private unsafe object myPullDecimal(byte* bytePtr) { return *((decimal*)bytePtr); }
         private unsafe object myPullUInt(byte* bytePtr) { return *((UInt32*)bytePtr); }
         private unsafe object myPullULong(byte* bytePtr) { return *((UInt64*)bytePtr); }
-        private unsafe object myPullDateTime(byte* bytePtr)
-        {
+        private unsafe object myPullDateTime(byte* bytePtr) {
             double thisDateTime = *((double*)bytePtr);
             return DateTime.FromOADate(thisDateTime);
         }
         private unsafe object myPullSingle(byte* bytePtr) { return *((Single*)bytePtr); ; }
 
 
-        private unsafe PullFromByteBufferDelegate myGetDispatchMethodPullFromBuffer(Type t)
-        {
+        private unsafe PullFromByteBufferDelegate myGetDispatchMethodPullFromBuffer(Type t) {
             if (t.Equals(BlueDataValidTypes.INT)) return new PullFromByteBufferDelegate(myPullInt32);
             else if (t.Equals(BlueDataValidTypes.DOUBLE)) return new PullFromByteBufferDelegate(myPullDouble);
             else if (t.Equals(BlueDataValidTypes.CHAR)) return new PullFromByteBufferDelegate(myPullChar);

src/DataStreamSuite/DataStreamCore/BlueRowExtensions.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+namespace Bts.DataStreamCore;
+
+using BCG;
+
+using System;
+
+public static class BlueRowExtensions {
+   public static int Id(this IBlueRow row) =>
+      (int)(row["id"] ?? throw new ArgumentException(
+         "Row doesn't have an 'id' column", nameof(row)));
+}