/**
* Copyright (C) 2022 by Martin Robillard. See https://codesample.info/about.html
*/
package e2.chapter8;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
/**
* This source code file shows how to use generic types
* to apply the Visitor pattern so that data flow is accomplished
* via parameters and return types, as opposed to state accumulation
* within the visitor. This is a simplified version of the CardSource
* sample referenced in the chapter.
*/
public class GenericVisitorSample {
public static void main(String[] args) {
GenericCardSource root = new GenericCompositeCardSource(
new GenericDeck(),
new GenericCompositeCardSource(
new GenericDeck(),
new GenericCompositeCardSource(new GenericDeck()),
new GenericDeck()
),
new GenericDeck()
);
// There are five decks in the structure and 5 gets returned and printed
System.out.println(root.accept(new DeckCountingVisitor()));
}
}
interface GenericCardSourceVisitor<R> {
R visitCompositeCardSource(GenericCompositeCardSource pCardSource);
R visitDeck(GenericDeck pCardSource);
}
interface GenericCardSource
{
Card draw();
boolean isEmpty();
<R> R accept(GenericCardSourceVisitor<R> pVisitor);
}
/**
* Stub composite class to demonstrate the implementation of the accept method.
*/
class GenericCompositeCardSource implements GenericCardSource, Iterable<GenericCardSource>
{
private final List<GenericCardSource> aElements;
public GenericCompositeCardSource(GenericCardSource... pCardSources) {
aElements = Arrays.asList(pCardSources);
}
@Override
public Card draw() { /* stub */ return null; }
@Override
public boolean isEmpty() { /* stub */ return false; }
@Override
public <R> R accept(GenericCardSourceVisitor<R> pVisitor) {
return pVisitor.visitCompositeCardSource(this);
}
@Override
public Iterator<GenericCardSource> iterator() {
return aElements.iterator();
}
}
/**
* Stub leaf class to demonstrate the implementation of the accept method.
*/
class GenericDeck implements GenericCardSource
{
@Override
public Card draw() { /* stub */ return null; }
@Override
public boolean isEmpty() { /* stub */ return false; }
@Override
public <R> R accept(GenericCardSourceVisitor<R> pVisitor) {
return pVisitor.visitDeck(this);
}
}
/** Demonstrates how to invoke the generic type to an Integer to return the
* number of deck objects in the structure.
*/
class DeckCountingVisitor implements GenericCardSourceVisitor<Integer> {
@Override
public Integer visitCompositeCardSource(GenericCompositeCardSource pCardSource) {
int result = 0;
for( GenericCardSource source : pCardSource ) {
result += source.accept(this);
}
return result;
}
@Override
public Integer visitDeck(GenericDeck pCardSource) {
return 1;
}
}
System
class contains several useful class fields and methods. It cannot be instantiated. Among the facilities provided by the System
class are standard input, standard output, and error output streams; access to externally defined properties and environment variables; a means of loading files and libraries; and a utility method for quickly copying a portion of an array.
System
class contains several useful class fields and methods. It cannot be instantiated. Among the facilities provided by the System
class are standard input, standard output, and error output streams; access to externally defined properties and environment variables; a means of loading files and libraries; and a utility method for quickly copying a portion of an array.
for
statement (sometimes called the "for-each loop" statement).
for
statement (sometimes called the "for-each loop" statement).
for
statement
Console.charset()
if the Console
exists, stdout.encoding otherwise.
Console.charset()
if the Console
exists, stdout.encoding otherwise.
For simple stand-alone Java applications, a typical way to write a line of output data is:
System.out.println(data)
See the println
methods in class PrintStream
.
Iterator
takes the place of Enumeration
in the Java Collections Framework. Iterators differ from enumerations in two ways:
Iterator
takes the place of Enumeration
in the Java Collections Framework. Iterators differ from enumerations in two ways:
This interface is a member of the Java Collections Framework.
Enumeration
can be converted into an Iterator
by using the Enumeration.asIterator()
method.
print(String)
and then println()
.
print(String)
and then println()
.
x
- The Object
to be printed.
Integer
class wraps a value of the primitive type int
in an object. An object of type Integer
contains a single field whose type is int
.
Integer
class wraps a value of the primitive type int
in an object. An object of type Integer
contains a single field whose type is int
.
In addition, this class provides several methods for converting an int
to a String
and a String
to an int
, as well as other constants and methods useful when dealing with an int
.
This is a value-based class; programmers should treat instances that are equal as interchangeable and should not use instances for synchronization, or unpredictable behavior may occur. For example, in a future release, synchronization may fail.
Implementation note: The implementations of the "bit twiddling" methods (such as highestOneBit
and numberOfTrailingZeros
) are based on material from Henry S. Warren, Jr.'s Hacker's Delight, (Addison Wesley, 2002).
String
class represents character strings. All string literals in Java programs, such as "abc"
, are implemented as instances of this class.
String
class represents character strings. All string literals in Java programs, such as "abc"
, are implemented as instances of this class.
Strings are constant; their values cannot be changed after they are created. String buffers support mutable strings. Because String objects are immutable they can be shared. For example:
String str = "abc";
is equivalent to:
char data[] = {'a', 'b', 'c'}; String str = new String(data);
Here are some more examples of how strings can be used:
System.out.println("abc"); String cde = "cde"; System.out.println("abc" + cde); String c = "abc".substring(2, 3); String d = cde.substring(1, 2);
The class String
includes methods for examining individual characters of the sequence, for comparing strings, for searching strings, for extracting substrings, and for creating a copy of a string with all characters translated to uppercase or to lowercase. Case mapping is based on the Unicode Standard version specified by the Character
class.
The Java language provides special support for the string concatenation operator ( + ), and for conversion of other objects to strings. For additional information on string concatenation and conversion, see The Java Language Specification.
Unless otherwise noted, passing a null
argument to a constructor or method in this class will cause a NullPointerException
to be thrown.
A String
represents a string in the UTF-16 format in which supplementary characters are represented by surrogate pairs (see the section Unicode Character Representations in the Character
class for more information). Index values refer to char
code units, so a supplementary character uses two positions in a String
.
The String
class provides methods for dealing with Unicode code points (i.e., characters), in addition to those for dealing with Unicode code units (i.e., char
values).
Unless otherwise noted, methods for comparing Strings do not take locale into account. The Collator
class provides methods for finer-grain, locale-sensitive String comparison.
javac
compiler may implement the operator with StringBuffer
, StringBuilder
, or java.lang.invoke.StringConcatFactory
depending on the JDK version. The implementation of string conversion is typically through the method toString
, defined by Object
and inherited by all classes in Java.
Unlike sets, lists typically allow duplicate elements. More formally, lists typically allow pairs of elements e1
and e2
such that e1.equals(e2)
, and they typically allow multiple null elements if they allow null elements at all. It is not inconceivable that someone might wish to implement a list that prohibits duplicates, by throwing runtime exceptions when the user attempts to insert them, but we expect this usage to be rare.
The List
interface places additional stipulations, beyond those specified in the Collection
interface, on the contracts of the iterator
, add
, remove
, equals
, and hashCode
methods. Declarations for other inherited methods are also included here for convenience.
The List
interface provides four methods for positional (indexed) access to list elements. Lists (like Java arrays) are zero based. Note that these operations may execute in time proportional to the index value for some implementations (the LinkedList
class, for example). Thus, iterating over the elements in a list is typically preferable to indexing through it if the caller does not know the implementation.
The List
interface provides a special iterator, called a ListIterator
, that allows element insertion and replacement, and bidirectional access in addition to the normal operations that the Iterator
interface provides. A method is provided to obtain a list iterator that starts at a specified position in the list.
The List
interface provides two methods to search for a specified object. From a performance standpoint, these methods should be used with caution. In many implementations they will perform costly linear searches.
The List
interface provides two methods to efficiently insert and remove multiple elements at an arbitrary point in the list.
Note: While it is permissible for lists to contain themselves as elements, extreme caution is advised: the equals
and hashCode
methods are no longer well defined on such a list.
Some list implementations have restrictions on the elements that they may contain. For example, some implementations prohibit null elements, and some have restrictions on the types of their elements. Attempting to add an ineligible element throws an unchecked exception, typically NullPointerException
or ClassCastException
. Attempting to query the presence of an ineligible element may throw an exception, or it may simply return false; some implementations will exhibit the former behavior and some will exhibit the latter. More generally, attempting an operation on an ineligible element whose completion would not result in the insertion of an ineligible element into the list may throw an exception or it may succeed, at the option of the implementation. Such exceptions are marked as "optional" in the specification for this interface.
The List.of
and List.copyOf
static factory methods provide a convenient way to create unmodifiable lists. The List
instances created by these methods have the following characteristics:
UnsupportedOperationException
to be thrown. However, if the contained elements are themselves mutable, this may cause the List's contents to appear to change. null
elements. Attempts to create them with null
elements result in NullPointerException
. subList
views implement the RandomAccess
interface. This interface is a member of the Java Collections Framework.
The methods in this class all throw a NullPointerException
, if the specified array reference is null, except where noted.
The documentation for the methods contained in this class includes brief descriptions of the implementations. Such descriptions should be regarded as implementation notes, rather than parts of the specification. Implementors should feel free to substitute other algorithms, so long as the specification itself is adhered to. (For example, the algorithm used by sort(Object[])
does not have to be a MergeSort, but it does have to be stable.)
This class is a member of the Java Collections Framework.
Serializable
and implements RandomAccess
.
Serializable
and implements RandomAccess
.
The returned list implements the optional Collection
methods, except those that would change the size of the returned list. Those methods leave the list unchanged and throw UnsupportedOperationException
.
If the specified array's actual component type differs from the type parameter T, this can result in operations on the returned list throwing an ArrayStoreException
.
Collection.toArray()
.
This method provides a way to wrap an existing array:
Integer[] numbers = ...
...
List<Integer> values = Arrays.asList(numbers);
This method also provides a convenient way to create a fixed-size list initialized to contain several elements:
List<String> stooges = Arrays.asList("Larry", "Moe", "Curly");
The list returned by this method is modifiable. To create an unmodifiable list, use Collections.unmodifiableList
or Unmodifiable Lists.
T
- the class of the objects in the array
a
- the array by which the list will be backed
NullPointerException
- if the specified array is null