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15/01/24, 11:50 Design Patterns - Iterator Pattern

Design Patterns - Iterator Pattern

Iterator pattern is very commonly used design pattern in Java and .Net programming
environment. This pattern is used to get a way to access the elements of a collection
object in sequential manner without any need to know its underlying representation.

Iterator pattern falls under behavioral pattern category.

Implementation
We're going to create a Iterator interface which narrates navigation method and a
Container interface which retruns the iterator . Concrete classes implementing the
Container interface will be responsible to implement Iterator interface and use it

IteratorPatternDemo, our demo class will use NamesRepository, a concrete class


implementation to print a Names stored as a collection in NamesRepository.

Step 1
Create interfaces.

Iterator.java

public interface Iterator {


public boolean hasNext();
public Object next();
}

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Container.java

public interface Container {


public Iterator getIterator();
}

Step 2
Create concrete class implementing the Container interface. This class has inner
class NameIterator implementing the Iterator interface.

NameRepository.java

public class NameRepository implements Container {


public String names[] = {"Robert" , "John" ,"Julie" , "Lora"};

@Override
public Iterator getIterator() {
return new NameIterator();
}

private class NameIterator implements Iterator {

int index;

@Override
public boolean hasNext() {

if(index < names.length){


return true;
}
return false;
}

@Override
public Object next() {

if(this.hasNext()){
return names[index++];
}
return null;
}

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}
}

Step 3
Use the NameRepository to get iterator and print names.

IteratorPatternDemo.java

public class IteratorPatternDemo {

public static void main(String[] args) {


NameRepository namesRepository = new NameRepository();

for(Iterator iter = namesRepository.getIterator(); iter.hasNext(


String name = (String)iter.next();
System.out.println("Name : " + name);
}
}
}

Step 4
Verify the output.

Name : Robert
Name : John
Name : Julie
Name : Lora

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