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284. Peeking Iterator
Jacky Zhang edited this page Aug 31, 2016
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Given an Iterator class interface with methods: next() and hasNext(), design and implement a PeekingIterator that support the peek() operation -- it essentially peek() at the element that will be returned by the next call to next().
Hint:
- Think of "looking ahead". You want to cache the next element.
- Is one variable sufficient? Why or why not?
- Test your design with call order of peek() before next() vs next() before peek().
- For a clean implementation, check out Google's guava library source code.
// Java Iterator interface reference:
// https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Iterator.html
class PeekingIterator implements Iterator<Integer> {
private Iterator<Integer> iterator;
private Integer next = null;
public PeekingIterator(Iterator<Integer> iterator) {
// initialize any member here.
this.iterator = iterator;
if(iterator.hasNext()) {
this.next = iterator.next();
}
}
// Returns the next element in the iteration without advancing the iterator.
public Integer peek() {
return next;
}
// hasNext() and next() should behave the same as in the Iterator interface.
// Override them if needed.
@Override
public Integer next() {
Integer res = next;
next = iterator.hasNext() ? iterator.next() : null;
return res;
}
@Override
public boolean hasNext() {
return (next != null);
}
}