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You may obtain a copy of the License at 8 * 9 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 10 * 11 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 12 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 13 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 14 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 15 * limitations under the License. 16 */ 17 package org.apache.commons.collections4.iterators; 18 19 import java.util.ArrayDeque; 20 import java.util.Deque; 21 import java.util.Iterator; 22 import java.util.NoSuchElementException; 23 24 import org.apache.commons.collections4.Transformer; 25 26 /** 27 * An Iterator that can traverse multiple iterators down an object graph. 28 * <p> 29 * This iterator can extract multiple objects from a complex tree-like object graph. 30 * The iteration starts from a single root object. 31 * It uses a {@code Transformer} to extract the iterators and elements. 32 * Its main benefit is that no intermediate {@code List} is created. 33 * </p> 34 * <p> 35 * For example, consider an object graph: 36 * </p> 37 * <pre> 38 * |- Branch -- Leaf 39 * | \- Leaf 40 * |- Tree | /- Leaf 41 * | |- Branch -- Leaf 42 * Forest | \- Leaf 43 * | |- Branch -- Leaf 44 * | | \- Leaf 45 * |- Tree | /- Leaf 46 * |- Branch -- Leaf 47 * |- Branch -- Leaf</pre> 48 * <p> 49 * The following {@code Transformer}, used in this class, will extract all 50 * the Leaf objects without creating a combined intermediate list: 51 * </p> 52 * <pre> 53 * public Object transform(Object input) { 54 * if (input instanceof Forest) { 55 * return ((Forest) input).treeIterator(); 56 * } 57 * if (input instanceof Tree) { 58 * return ((Tree) input).branchIterator(); 59 * } 60 * if (input instanceof Branch) { 61 * return ((Branch) input).leafIterator(); 62 * } 63 * if (input instanceof Leaf) { 64 * return input; 65 * } 66 * throw new ClassCastException(); 67 * }</pre> 68 * <p> 69 * Internally, iteration starts from the root object. When next is called, 70 * the transformer is called to examine the object. The transformer will return 71 * either an iterator or an object. If the object is an Iterator, the next element 72 * from that iterator is obtained and the process repeats. If the element is an object 73 * it is returned. 74 * </p> 75 * <p> 76 * Under many circumstances, linking Iterators together in this manner is 77 * more efficient (and convenient) than using nested for loops to extract a list. 78 * </p> 79 * 80 * @param <E> the type of elements returned by this iterator. 81 * @since 3.1 82 */ 83 public class ObjectGraphIterator<E> implements Iterator<E> { 84 85 /** The stack of iterators */ 86 private final Deque<Iterator<? extends E>> stack = new ArrayDeque<>(8); 87 /** The root object in the tree */ 88 private E root; 89 /** The transformer to use */ 90 private final Transformer<? super E, ? extends E> transformer; 91 92 /** Whether there is another element in the iteration */ 93 private boolean hasNext; 94 /** The current iterator */ 95 private Iterator<? extends E> currentIterator; 96 /** The current value */ 97 private E currentValue; 98 /** The last used iterator, needed for remove() */ 99 private Iterator<? extends E> lastUsedIterator; 100 101 /** 102 * Constructs an ObjectGraphIterator using a root object and transformer. 103 * <p> 104 * The root object can be an iterator, in which case it will be immediately 105 * looped around. 106 * 107 * @param root the root object, null will result in an empty iterator 108 * @param transformer the transformer to use, null will use a no effect transformer 109 */ 110 @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") 111 public ObjectGraphIterator(final E root, final Transformer<? super E, ? extends E> transformer) { 112 if (root instanceof Iterator) { 113 this.currentIterator = (Iterator<? extends E>) root; 114 } else { 115 this.root = root; 116 } 117 this.transformer = transformer; 118 } 119 120 /** 121 * Constructs a ObjectGraphIterator that will handle an iterator of iterators. 122 * <p> 123 * This constructor exists for convenience to emphasise that this class can 124 * be used to iterate over nested iterators. That is to say that the iterator 125 * passed in here contains other iterators, which may in turn contain further 126 * iterators. 127 * </p> 128 * 129 * @param rootIterator the root iterator, null will result in an empty iterator 130 */ 131 public ObjectGraphIterator(final Iterator<? extends E> rootIterator) { 132 this.currentIterator = rootIterator; 133 this.transformer = null; 134 } 135 136 /** 137 * Finds the next object in the iteration given any start object. 138 * 139 * @param value the value to start from 140 */ 141 @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") 142 protected void findNext(final E value) { 143 if (value instanceof Iterator) { 144 // need to examine this iterator 145 findNextByIterator((Iterator<? extends E>) value); 146 } else { 147 // next value found 148 currentValue = value; 149 hasNext = true; 150 } 151 } 152 153 /** 154 * Finds the next object in the iteration given an iterator. 155 * 156 * @param iterator the iterator to start from 157 */ 158 protected void findNextByIterator(final Iterator<? extends E> iterator) { 159 if (iterator != currentIterator) { 160 // recurse a level 161 if (currentIterator != null) { 162 stack.push(currentIterator); 163 } 164 currentIterator = iterator; 165 } 166 167 while (currentIterator.hasNext() && !hasNext) { 168 E next = currentIterator.next(); 169 if (transformer != null) { 170 next = transformer.apply(next); 171 } 172 findNext(next); 173 } 174 // if we haven't found the next value and iterators are not yet exhausted 175 if (!hasNext && !stack.isEmpty()) { 176 // current iterator exhausted, go up a level 177 currentIterator = stack.pop(); 178 findNextByIterator(currentIterator); 179 } 180 } 181 182 /** 183 * Checks whether there are any more elements in the iteration to obtain. 184 * 185 * @return true if elements remain in the iteration 186 */ 187 @Override 188 public boolean hasNext() { 189 updateCurrentIterator(); 190 return hasNext; 191 } 192 193 /** 194 * Gets the next element of the iteration. 195 * 196 * @return the next element from the iteration 197 * @throws NoSuchElementException if all the Iterators are exhausted 198 */ 199 @Override 200 public E next() { 201 updateCurrentIterator(); 202 if (!hasNext) { 203 throw new NoSuchElementException("No more elements in the iteration"); 204 } 205 lastUsedIterator = currentIterator; 206 final E result = currentValue; 207 currentValue = null; 208 hasNext = false; 209 return result; 210 } 211 212 /** 213 * Removes from the underlying collection the last element returned. 214 * <p> 215 * This method calls remove() on the underlying Iterator, and it may 216 * throw an UnsupportedOperationException if the underlying Iterator 217 * does not support this method. 218 * </p> 219 * 220 * @throws UnsupportedOperationException 221 * if the remove operator is not supported by the underlying Iterator 222 * @throws IllegalStateException 223 * if the next method has not yet been called, or the remove method has 224 * already been called after the last call to the next method. 225 */ 226 @Override 227 public void remove() { 228 if (lastUsedIterator == null) { 229 throw new IllegalStateException("Iterator remove() cannot be called at this time"); 230 } 231 lastUsedIterator.remove(); 232 lastUsedIterator = null; 233 } 234 235 /** 236 * Loops around the iterators to find the next value to return. 237 */ 238 protected void updateCurrentIterator() { 239 if (hasNext) { 240 return; 241 } 242 if (currentIterator == null) { 243 if (root == null) { // NOPMD 244 // do nothing, hasNext will be false 245 } else { 246 if (transformer == null) { 247 findNext(root); 248 } else { 249 findNext(transformer.apply(root)); 250 } 251 root = null; 252 } 253 } else { 254 findNextByIterator(currentIterator); 255 } 256 } 257 258 }