External iteration
Till Java 7, the collections framework relied on the concept of external iteration, where a Collection provides, by implementing Iterable, a means to enumerate its elements i.e. Iterator, and clients use this to step sequentially through the elements of a collection. For example, if we wanted to get all strings in uppercase, we would write:
public class IterationExamples {
public static void main(String[] args){
List<String> alphabets = Arrays.asList(new String[]{"a","b","b","d"});
for(String letter: alphabets){
System.out.println(letter.toUpperCase());
}
}
}
OR we can write like this:
public class IterationExamples {
public static void main(String[] args){
List<String> alphabets = Arrays.asList(new String[]{"a","b","b","d"});
Iterator<String> iterator = alphabets.listIterator();
while(iterator.hasNext()){
System.out.println(iterator.next().toUpperCase());
}
}
}
Above both code snippets are for external iteration. External iteration is straightforward enough, but it has several problems:
1) Java’s for-each loop/iterator is inherently sequential, and must process the elements in the order specified by the collection.
2) It limits the opportunity to manage the control flow, which might be able to provide better performance by exploiting reordering of the data, parallelism, short-circuiting, or laziness.
Internal iteration
Sometimes the strong guarantees of the for-each loop (sequential, in-order) are desirable, but often are just an disadvantage to performance. The alternative to external iteration is internal iteration, where instead of controlling the iteration, client let it handle by library and only provide the code which must be executed for all/some of data elements.
The internal-iteration equivalent of the previous example is:
public class IterationExamples {
public static void main(String[] args){
List<String> alphabets = Arrays.asList(new String[]{"a","b","b","d"});
alphabets.forEach(l -> l.toUpperCase());
}
}
That’s all for regarding Internal vs. External Iteration.
Happy Learning !!
Sunguk Keem
The internal-iteration equivalent example doesn’t do the same. You can use the following to do the same.
public class IterationExamples { public static void main(String[] args){ List<String> alphabets = Arrays.asList(new String[]{"a","b","b","d"}); alphabets.forEach(l -> System.out.println(l.toUpperCase())); } }Himansu
Hi Lokesh,
Apart of Internal Iterator we can also use Consumer i.e.
alphabets.forEach(new Consumer() {
@Override
public void accept(String s) {
s.toUpperCase();
}
});
or
alphabets.forEach(new ReuseConsumer());
class ReuseConsumer implements Consumer {
@Override
public void accept(String s) {
System.out.println(s);
}
}
Jakub
There is no reason to move one-liner to >5 lines of code, when it comes to Functional Interfaces. You are right, but it is the outcome of lambdas being used. If You want to add something to that interface – statics, defaults, sure go for it.
sri
Hi Guptha,
Create a vector add elements to the vector .Iterate through vector using enumaration object.Write a code to copy all the elements of vector to the array and then iterate through enhanced for loop and print it.. Everything should be in collections only?
Can anyone please help me to do ?
Thanks Advacnce
Lokesh Gupta
Will it solve your exercise?
public class VectorExample { public static void main(String[] args) { Vector<String> names = new Vector<String>(); names.add("Lokesh"); names.add("Sri"); names.add("John"); //Iterate through Enumeration Enumeration<String > itr = names.elements(); while(itr.hasMoreElements()){ System.out.println(itr.nextElement()); } //Copy in Array and Iterate String[] namesArr = new String[names.size()]; names.toArray(namesArr); for(String name : namesArr){ System.out.println(name); } } }bryan jacobs
If Java could more quickly include some of the ruby idioms perhaps the language will keep relevant. JavaScript is so busy trying to build a server-side platform and Java is already there. I would love to see the language continue to evolve to essentially look like scala. Then we would have all the benefits of java tooling/platform with a modern language.