public interface ValueIterator
Interface for enabling iteration over sets of <int, Object>, where int is the sorted integer index in ascending order, and Object its associated value.
The ValueIterator allows iterations over integer indexes in the range of Integer.MIN_VALUE to Integer.MAX_VALUE inclusive. Implementations of ValueIterator should specify their own maximum subrange within the above range that is meaningful to its applications.
Most implementations will be created by factory methods, such as the
character name iterator in UCharacter.getNameIterator. See example below.
Example of use:
ValueIterator iterator = UCharacter.getNameIterator();
ValueIterator.Element result = new ValueIterator.Element();
iterator.setRange(UCharacter.MIN_VALUE, UCharacter.MAX_VALUE);
while (iterator.next(result)) {
System.out.println("Codepoint \\u" +
Integer.toHexString(result.integer) +
" has the character name " + (String)result.value);
}
| Modifier and Type | Interface and Description |
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static class |
ValueIterator.Element
The return result container of each iteration.
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| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
|---|---|
boolean |
next(ValueIterator.Element element)
Returns the next result for this iteration and returns
true if we are not at the end of the iteration, false otherwise.
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void |
reset()
Resets the iterator to start iterating from the integer index
Integer.MIN_VALUE or X if a setRange(X, Y) has been called previously.
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void |
setRange(int start,
int limit)
Restricts the range of integers to iterate and resets the iteration
to begin at the index argument start.
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boolean next(ValueIterator.Element element)
Returns the next result for this iteration and returns true if we are not at the end of the iteration, false otherwise.
If this returns a false, the contents of elements will not be updated.
element - for storing the result index and valueValueIterator.Elementvoid reset()
Resets the iterator to start iterating from the integer index Integer.MIN_VALUE or X if a setRange(X, Y) has been called previously.
void setRange(int start,
int limit)
Restricts the range of integers to iterate and resets the iteration to begin at the index argument start.
If setRange(start, end) is not performed before next(element) is called, the iteration will start from the integer index Integer.MIN_VALUE and end at Integer.MAX_VALUE.
If this range is set outside the meaningful range specified by the implementation, next(element) will always return false.
start - first integer in the range to iteratelimit - one more than the last integer in the rangeIllegalArgumentException - thrown when attempting to set an
illegal range. E.g limit <= start