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Detect Objectives with Native data.table Evaluation Semantics

Source: R/utils_objective.R
objective_uses_dt_eval.Rd

Returns whether an objective explicitly advertises that its eval_dt() implementation preserves the missing-value semantics expected by SearchInstance.

Usage

objective_uses_dt_eval(objective)

Arguments

objective

(bbotk::Objective)
Objective to inspect.

Value

logical(1).

Details

This is an explicit S3 capability instead of a method-body heuristic. Merely overriding eval_dt() is not sufficient: subclasses can wrap or forward to bbotk::Objective's default eval_dt(), which still converts rows with transpose_list() and therefore treats dependency-inactive parameters as literal NA values instead of dropping them. Native data-table objectives opt in with an S3 method, and subclasses inherit that capability automatically.