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/* Iterator.java -- Interface for iterating over collections
Copyright (C) 1998, 2001, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GNU Classpath.
GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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exception statement from your version. */
package java.util;
/**
* An object which iterates over a collection. An Iterator is used to return
* the items once only, in sequence, by successive calls to the next method.
* It is also possible to remove elements from the underlying collection by
* using the optional remove method. Iterator is intended as a replacement
* for the Enumeration interface of previous versions of Java, which did not
* have the remove method and had less conveniently named methods.
*
* @author Original author unknown
* @author Eric Blake (ebb9@email.byu.edu)
* @see Collection
* @see ListIterator
* @see Enumeration
* @since 1.2
* @status updated to 1.4
*/
public interface Iterator<E>
{
/**
* Tests whether there are elements remaining in the collection. In other
* words, calling <code>next()</code> will not throw an exception.
*
* @return true if there is at least one more element in the collection
*/
boolean hasNext();
/**
* Obtain the next element in the collection.
*
* @return the next element in the collection
* @throws NoSuchElementException if there are no more elements
*/
E next();
/**
* Remove from the underlying collection the last element returned by next
* (optional operation). This method can be called only once after each
* call to <code>next()</code>. It does not affect what will be returned
* by subsequent calls to next.
*
* @throws IllegalStateException if next has not yet been called or remove
* has already been called since the last call to next.
* @throws UnsupportedOperationException if this Iterator does not support
* the remove operation.
*/
void remove();
}
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