Re: Custom Iterable, Issue with standard Interface?
Robert Klemme wrote:
I have a similar situation as demonstrated below. I cannot find a
proper solution to make method iterator() work properly. It works with
the custom interface Iterable2 (see below). I tried several
alternatives I could think of but to no avail (see comments in code).
Any other ideas? Or am I running into a limitation of Iterable?
Research did not turn up much useful information for this situation.
So you have an Iterator<D> but want to return it as type Iterator<B>,
where D extends B?
I suggest you write a proxy:
class IteratorTypeProxy<E> implements Iterator<E> {
private final Iterator<? extends E> target;
public static <E> Iterator<E> create(Iterator<? extends E> target) {
return new IteratorTypeProxy<E>(target);
}
private IteratorTypeProxy(Iterator<? extends E> target) {
if (target == null) {
throw new NullPointerException();
}
this.target = target;
}
public boolean hasNext() {
return target.hasNext();
}
public E next() {
return target.next();
}
public void remove() {
target.hasNext();
}
}
Note, you can't implement, say, the full ListIterator interface this
way. add(E) and set(E) wouldn't work.
As Iterable<B>.iterator gives an Iterator<B> instead of Iterator<?
extends B>, the method can be overridden to return ListIterator<B>. (It
also helps to make client code easier to read - as a rule, don't return
wildcarded types.)
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