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When next is called, 066 * the transformer is called to examine the object. The transformer will return 067 * either an iterator or an object. If the object is an Iterator, the next element 068 * from that iterator is obtained and the process repeats. If the element is an object 069 * it is returned. 070 * <p> 071 * Under many circumstances, linking Iterators together in this manner is 072 * more efficient (and convenient) than using nested for loops to extract a list. 073 * 074 * @since 3.1 075 */ 076public class ObjectGraphIterator<E> implements Iterator<E> { 077 078 /** The stack of iterators */ 079 private final Deque<Iterator<? extends E>> stack = new ArrayDeque<>(8); 080 /** The root object in the tree */ 081 private E root; 082 /** The transformer to use */ 083 private final Transformer<? super E, ? extends E> transformer; 084 085 /** Whether there is another element in the iteration */ 086 private boolean hasNext = false; 087 /** The current iterator */ 088 private Iterator<? extends E> currentIterator; 089 /** The current value */ 090 private E currentValue; 091 /** The last used iterator, needed for remove() */ 092 private Iterator<? extends E> lastUsedIterator; 093 094 //----------------------------------------------------------------------- 095 /** 096 * Constructs an ObjectGraphIterator using a root object and transformer. 097 * <p> 098 * The root object can be an iterator, in which case it will be immediately 099 * looped around. 100 * 101 * @param root the root object, null will result in an empty iterator 102 * @param transformer the transformer to use, null will use a no effect transformer 103 */ 104 @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") 105 public ObjectGraphIterator(final E root, final Transformer<? super E, ? extends E> transformer) { 106 super(); 107 if (root instanceof Iterator) { 108 this.currentIterator = (Iterator<? extends E>) root; 109 } else { 110 this.root = root; 111 } 112 this.transformer = transformer; 113 } 114 115 /** 116 * Constructs a ObjectGraphIterator that will handle an iterator of iterators. 117 * <p> 118 * This constructor exists for convenience to emphasise that this class can 119 * be used to iterate over nested iterators. That is to say that the iterator 120 * passed in here contains other iterators, which may in turn contain further 121 * iterators. 122 * 123 * @param rootIterator the root iterator, null will result in an empty iterator 124 */ 125 public ObjectGraphIterator(final Iterator<? extends E> rootIterator) { 126 super(); 127 this.currentIterator = rootIterator; 128 this.transformer = null; 129 } 130 131 //----------------------------------------------------------------------- 132 /** 133 * Loops around the iterators to find the next value to return. 134 */ 135 protected void updateCurrentIterator() { 136 if (hasNext) { 137 return; 138 } 139 if (currentIterator == null) { 140 if (root == null) { // NOPMD 141 // do nothing, hasNext will be false 142 } else { 143 if (transformer == null) { 144 findNext(root); 145 } else { 146 findNext(transformer.transform(root)); 147 } 148 root = null; 149 } 150 } else { 151 findNextByIterator(currentIterator); 152 } 153 } 154 155 /** 156 * Finds the next object in the iteration given any start object. 157 * 158 * @param value the value to start from 159 */ 160 @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") 161 protected void findNext(final E value) { 162 if (value instanceof Iterator) { 163 // need to examine this iterator 164 findNextByIterator((Iterator<? extends E>) value); 165 } else { 166 // next value found 167 currentValue = value; 168 hasNext = true; 169 } 170 } 171 172 /** 173 * Finds the next object in the iteration given an iterator. 174 * 175 * @param iterator the iterator to start from 176 */ 177 protected void findNextByIterator(final Iterator<? extends E> iterator) { 178 if (iterator != currentIterator) { 179 // recurse a level 180 if (currentIterator != null) { 181 stack.push(currentIterator); 182 } 183 currentIterator = iterator; 184 } 185 186 while (currentIterator.hasNext() && hasNext == false) { 187 E next = currentIterator.next(); 188 if (transformer != null) { 189 next = transformer.transform(next); 190 } 191 findNext(next); 192 } 193 // if we havn't found the next value and iterators are not yet exhausted 194 if (!hasNext && !stack.isEmpty()) { 195 // current iterator exhausted, go up a level 196 currentIterator = stack.pop(); 197 findNextByIterator(currentIterator); 198 } 199 } 200 201 //----------------------------------------------------------------------- 202 /** 203 * Checks whether there are any more elements in the iteration to obtain. 204 * 205 * @return true if elements remain in the iteration 206 */ 207 @Override 208 public boolean hasNext() { 209 updateCurrentIterator(); 210 return hasNext; 211 } 212 213 /** 214 * Gets the next element of the iteration. 215 * 216 * @return the next element from the iteration 217 * @throws NoSuchElementException if all the Iterators are exhausted 218 */ 219 @Override 220 public E next() { 221 updateCurrentIterator(); 222 if (hasNext == false) { 223 throw new NoSuchElementException("No more elements in the iteration"); 224 } 225 lastUsedIterator = currentIterator; 226 final E result = currentValue; 227 currentValue = null; 228 hasNext = false; 229 return result; 230 } 231 232 /** 233 * Removes from the underlying collection the last element returned. 234 * <p> 235 * This method calls remove() on the underlying Iterator and it may 236 * throw an UnsupportedOperationException if the underlying Iterator 237 * does not support this method. 238 * 239 * @throws UnsupportedOperationException 240 * if the remove operator is not supported by the underlying Iterator 241 * @throws IllegalStateException 242 * if the next method has not yet been called, or the remove method has 243 * already been called after the last call to the next method. 244 */ 245 @Override 246 public void remove() { 247 if (lastUsedIterator == null) { 248 throw new IllegalStateException("Iterator remove() cannot be called at this time"); 249 } 250 lastUsedIterator.remove(); 251 lastUsedIterator = null; 252 } 253 254}