/* * Copyright (c) 1994, 2005, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. * * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as * published by the Free Software Foundation. Oracle designates this * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided * by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code. * * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that * accompanied this code). * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. * * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any * questions. */ package java.util; /** * An object that implements the Enumeration interface generates a * series of elements, one at a time. Successive calls to the * nextElement method return successive elements of the * series. *

* For example, to print all elements of a Vector<E> v: *

 *   for (Enumeration<E> e = v.elements(); e.hasMoreElements();)
 *       System.out.println(e.nextElement());
*

* Methods are provided to enumerate through the elements of a * vector, the keys of a hashtable, and the values in a hashtable. * Enumerations are also used to specify the input streams to a * SequenceInputStream. *

* NOTE: The functionality of this interface is duplicated by the Iterator * interface. In addition, Iterator adds an optional remove operation, and * has shorter method names. New implementations should consider using * Iterator in preference to Enumeration. * * @see java.util.Iterator * @see java.io.SequenceInputStream * @see java.util.Enumeration#nextElement() * @see java.util.Hashtable * @see java.util.Hashtable#elements() * @see java.util.Hashtable#keys() * @see java.util.Vector * @see java.util.Vector#elements() * * @author Lee Boynton * @since JDK1.0 */ public interface Enumeration { /** * Tests if this enumeration contains more elements. * * @return true if and only if this enumeration object * contains at least one more element to provide; * false otherwise. */ boolean hasMoreElements(); /** * Returns the next element of this enumeration if this enumeration * object has at least one more element to provide. * * @return the next element of this enumeration. * @exception NoSuchElementException if no more elements exist. */ E nextElement(); }