Design an API to solve uses case that have only 1 entity. This is not the Solver or SolverFactory or SolverManager API. This is probably a separate API.

The user:

• Defines a ConstraintProvider (hard and soft constraints)
• Defines an entity class
• Passes to a method a optional collection of facts, required collection(s) of value ranges and one entity. It assigns the entity.
  • Does it return the entity instance?
    • It does not clone the entity? There is no need for planning cloning.
  • Does it pareto wise return a list of best assignments?
    • So it does planning clone it?
• Does NOT have to define a planning solution class? No need for a list of entities
• Optional solver config.
  • Turning on/off assertions, multithreaded solving, etc are still useful
  • The solver config defaults to CH. it won't run LS.
    • It will return quickly. Only 1 step (1 entity) and incremental score calc for the moves.

Requirements

• Set up a meeting to design the API
• Add an optaplanner-quickstart that uses it to schedule an appointment.
  • Come up with a good use case. Cancer treatment appointments? Dentists appointments?