org.dom4j.tree
Class FilterIterator

java.lang.Object
  org.dom4j.tree.FilterIterator

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.util.Iterator

Direct Known Subclasses:

ElementIterator, ElementNameIterator, ElementQNameIterator

Deprecated. THIS CLASS WILL BE REMOVED IN dom4j-1.6 !!

public abstract class FilterIterator

extends java.lang.Object

implements java.util.Iterator

FilterIterator is an abstract base class which is useful for implementors of Iterator which filter an existing iterator.

Version:

$Revision: 1.8 $

Author:

James Strachan

Field Summary

protected java.util.Iterator

proxy Deprecated.

Constructor Summary

FilterIterator(java.util.Iterator proxy)
Deprecated.

Method Summary

protected java.lang.Object	findNext() Deprecated.
boolean	hasNext() Deprecated.
protected abstract boolean	matches(java.lang.Object element) Deprecated. Filter method to perform some matching on the given element.
java.lang.Object	next() Deprecated.
void	remove() Deprecated. Always throws UnsupportedOperationException as this class does look-ahead with its internal iterator.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

proxy

protected java.util.Iterator proxy

Deprecated.

Constructor Detail

FilterIterator

public FilterIterator(java.util.Iterator proxy)

Deprecated.

Method Detail

hasNext

public boolean hasNext()

Deprecated.

Specified by:

hasNext in interface java.util.Iterator

next

public java.lang.Object next()
                      throws java.util.NoSuchElementException

Deprecated.

Specified by:

next in interface java.util.Iterator

Throws:

java.util.NoSuchElementException

remove

public void remove()

Deprecated.

Always throws UnsupportedOperationException as this class does look-ahead with its internal iterator.

Specified by:

remove in interface java.util.Iterator

Throws:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException - always

matches

protected abstract boolean matches(java.lang.Object element)

Deprecated.

Filter method to perform some matching on the given element.

Returns:

true if the given element matches the filter and should be appear in the iteration

findNext

protected java.lang.Object findNext()

Deprecated.