Chapter 2 5

The Join Operator

The join operator takes two input collections, each of which must have records with a (key, value) structure, and must have the same type of key. For each pair of elements with matching key, one from each input, the join operator produces the output (key, (value1, value2)).

Our example from earlier uses a join to match up pairs (m2, m1) and (m1, p) when the m1 is in common. To do this, we first have to switch the records in the first collection around, so that they are keyed by m1 instead of m2.

    manages
        .map(|(m2, m1)| (m1, m2))
        .join(&manages)
        .inspect(|x| println!("{:?}", x));

The join operator multiplies frequencies, so if a record (key, val1) has multiplicity five, and a matching record (key, val2) has multiplicity three, the output result will be (key, (val1, val2)) with multiplicity fifteen.