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When next is called, 070 * the transformer is called to examine the object. The transformer will return 071 * either an iterator or an object. If the object is an Iterator, the next element 072 * from that iterator is obtained and the process repeats. If the element is an object 073 * it is returned. 074 * </p> 075 * <p> 076 * Under many circumstances, linking Iterators together in this manner is 077 * more efficient (and convenient) than using nested for loops to extract a list. 078 * </p> 079 * 080 * @param <E> The type of elements returned by this iterator. 081 * @since 3.1 082 */ 083public class ObjectGraphIterator<E> implements Iterator<E> { 084 085 /** The stack of iterators */ 086 private final Deque<Iterator<? extends E>> stack = new ArrayDeque<>(8); 087 088 /** The root object in the tree */ 089 private E root; 090 091 /** The transformer to use */ 092 private final Transformer<? super E, ? extends E> transformer; 093 094 /** Whether there is another element in the iteration */ 095 private boolean hasNext; 096 097 /** The current iterator */ 098 private Iterator<? extends E> currentIterator; 099 100 /** The current value */ 101 private E currentValue; 102 103 /** The last used iterator, needed for remove() */ 104 private Iterator<? extends E> lastUsedIterator; 105 106 /** 107 * Constructs an ObjectGraphIterator using a root object and transformer. 108 * <p> 109 * The root object can be an iterator, in which case it will be immediately 110 * looped around. 111 * 112 * @param root The root object, null will result in an empty iterator 113 * @param transformer The transformer to use, null will use a no effect transformer 114 */ 115 @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") 116 public ObjectGraphIterator(final E root, final Transformer<? super E, ? extends E> transformer) { 117 if (root instanceof Iterator) { 118 this.currentIterator = (Iterator<? extends E>) root; 119 } else { 120 this.root = root; 121 } 122 this.transformer = transformer; 123 } 124 125 /** 126 * Constructs a ObjectGraphIterator that will handle an iterator of iterators. 127 * <p> 128 * This constructor exists for convenience to emphasise that this class can 129 * be used to iterate over nested iterators. That is to say that the iterator 130 * passed in here contains other iterators, which may in turn contain further 131 * iterators. 132 * </p> 133 * 134 * @param rootIterator The root iterator, null will result in an empty iterator 135 */ 136 public ObjectGraphIterator(final Iterator<? extends E> rootIterator) { 137 this.currentIterator = rootIterator; 138 this.transformer = null; 139 } 140 141 /** 142 * Finds the next object in the iteration given any start object. 143 * 144 * @param value The value to start from 145 */ 146 @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") 147 protected void findNext(final E value) { 148 if (value instanceof Iterator) { 149 // need to examine this iterator 150 findNextByIterator((Iterator<? extends E>) value); 151 } else { 152 // next value found 153 currentValue = value; 154 hasNext = true; 155 } 156 } 157 158 /** 159 * Finds the next object in the iteration given an iterator. 160 * 161 * @param iterator The iterator to start from 162 */ 163 protected void findNextByIterator(final Iterator<? extends E> iterator) { 164 if (iterator != currentIterator) { 165 // recurse a level 166 if (currentIterator != null) { 167 stack.push(currentIterator); 168 } 169 currentIterator = iterator; 170 } 171 172 while (currentIterator.hasNext() && !hasNext) { 173 E next = currentIterator.next(); 174 if (transformer != null) { 175 next = transformer.apply(next); 176 } 177 findNext(next); 178 } 179 // if we haven't found the next value and iterators are not yet exhausted 180 if (!hasNext && !stack.isEmpty()) { 181 // current iterator exhausted, go up a level 182 currentIterator = stack.pop(); 183 findNextByIterator(currentIterator); 184 } 185 } 186 187 /** 188 * Checks whether there are any more elements in the iteration to obtain. 189 * 190 * @return true if elements remain in the iteration 191 */ 192 @Override 193 public boolean hasNext() { 194 updateCurrentIterator(); 195 return hasNext; 196 } 197 198 /** 199 * Gets the next element of the iteration. 200 * 201 * @return The next element from the iteration 202 * @throws NoSuchElementException if all the Iterators are exhausted 203 */ 204 @Override 205 public E next() { 206 updateCurrentIterator(); 207 if (!hasNext) { 208 throw new NoSuchElementException("No more elements in the iteration"); 209 } 210 lastUsedIterator = currentIterator; 211 final E result = currentValue; 212 currentValue = null; 213 hasNext = false; 214 return result; 215 } 216 217 /** 218 * Removes from the underlying collection the last element returned. 219 * <p> 220 * This method calls remove() on the underlying Iterator, and it may 221 * throw an UnsupportedOperationException if the underlying Iterator 222 * does not support this method. 223 * </p> 224 * 225 * @throws UnsupportedOperationException 226 * if the remove operator is not supported by the underlying Iterator 227 * @throws IllegalStateException 228 * if the next method has not yet been called, or the remove method has 229 * already been called after the last call to the next method. 230 */ 231 @Override 232 public void remove() { 233 if (lastUsedIterator == null) { 234 throw new IllegalStateException("Iterator remove() cannot be called at this time"); 235 } 236 lastUsedIterator.remove(); 237 lastUsedIterator = null; 238 } 239 240 /** 241 * Loops around the iterators to find the next value to return. 242 */ 243 protected void updateCurrentIterator() { 244 if (hasNext) { 245 return; 246 } 247 if (currentIterator == null) { 248 if (root == null) { // NOPMD 249 // do nothing, hasNext will be false 250 } else { 251 if (transformer == null) { 252 findNext(root); 253 } else { 254 findNext(transformer.apply(root)); 255 } 256 root = null; 257 } 258 } else { 259 findNextByIterator(currentIterator); 260 } 261 } 262 263}