/* * Copyright (c) 1994, 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. * * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as * published by the Free Software Foundation. Oracle designates this * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided * by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code. * * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that * accompanied this code). * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. * * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any * questions. */ package java.util; /** * An object that implements the Enumeration interface generates a * series of elements, one at a time. Successive calls to the * {@code nextElement} method return successive elements of the * series. *

* For example, to print all elements of a {@code Vector} v: *

 *   for (Enumeration<E> e = v.elements(); e.hasMoreElements();)
 *       System.out.println(e.nextElement());
*

* Methods are provided to enumerate through the elements of a * vector, the keys of a hashtable, and the values in a hashtable. * Enumerations are also used to specify the input streams to a * {@code SequenceInputStream}. * * @apiNote * The functionality of this interface is duplicated by the {@link Iterator} * interface. In addition, {@code Iterator} adds an optional remove operation, * and has shorter method names. New implementations should consider using * {@code Iterator} in preference to {@code Enumeration}. It is possible to * adapt an {@code Enumeration} to an {@code Iterator} by using the * {@link #asIterator} method. * * @see java.util.Iterator * @see java.io.SequenceInputStream * @see java.util.Enumeration#nextElement() * @see java.util.Hashtable * @see java.util.Hashtable#elements() * @see java.util.Hashtable#keys() * @see java.util.Vector * @see java.util.Vector#elements() * * @author Lee Boynton * @since 1.0 */ public interface Enumeration { /** * Tests if this enumeration contains more elements. * * @return {@code true} if and only if this enumeration object * contains at least one more element to provide; * {@code false} otherwise. */ boolean hasMoreElements(); /** * Returns the next element of this enumeration if this enumeration * object has at least one more element to provide. * * @return the next element of this enumeration. * @exception NoSuchElementException if no more elements exist. */ E nextElement(); /** * Returns an {@link Iterator} that traverses the remaining elements * covered by this enumeration. Traversal is undefined if any methods * are called on this enumeration after the call to {@code asIterator}. * * @apiNote * This method is intended to help adapt code that produces * {@code Enumeration} instances to code that consumes {@code Iterator} * instances. For example, the {@link java.util.jar.JarFile#entries * JarFile.entries()} method returns an {@code Enumeration}. * This can be turned into an {@code Iterator}, and then the * {@code forEachRemaining()} method can be used: * *

{@code
     *     JarFile jarFile = ... ;
     *     jarFile.entries().asIterator().forEachRemaining(entry -> { ... });
     * }
* * (Note that there is also a {@link java.util.jar.JarFile#stream * JarFile.stream()} method that returns a {@code Stream} of entries, * which may be more convenient in some cases.) * * @implSpec * The default implementation returns an {@code Iterator} whose * {@link Iterator#hasNext hasNext} method calls this Enumeration's * {@code hasMoreElements} method, whose {@link Iterator#next next} * method calls this Enumeration's {@code nextElement} method, and * whose {@link Iterator#remove remove} method throws * {@code UnsupportedOperationException}. * * @return an Iterator representing the remaining elements of this Enumeration * * @since 9 */ default Iterator asIterator() { return new Iterator<>() { @Override public boolean hasNext() { return hasMoreElements(); } @Override public E next() { return nextElement(); } }; } }