org.apache.commons.collections

Interface Buffer

All Superinterfaces:
Collection
Known Implementing Classes:
ArrayStack

public interface Buffer
extends Collection

Defines a collection that allows objects to be removed in some well-defined order.

The removal order can be based on insertion order (eg, a FIFO queue or a LIFO stack), on access order (eg, an LRU cache), on some arbitrary comparator (eg, a priority queue) or on any other well-defined ordering.

Note that the removal order is not necessarily the same as the iteration order. A Buffer implementation may have equivalent removal and iteration orders, but this is not required.

This interface does not specify any behavior for Object.equals(Object) and Object.hashCode methods. It is therefore possible for a Buffer implementation to also also implement java.util.List, java.util.Set or Bag.

Note: this class should be bytecode-identical to the version in commons collections. This is required to allow backwards compability with both previous versions of BeanUtils and also allow coexistance with both collections 2.1 and 3.0.

Version:
$Revision: 1.1 $ $Date: 2004/05/10 19:50:28 $
Authors:
Avalon
Berin Loritsch
Paul Jack
Stephen Colebourne
Since:
Commons Collections 2.1

Method Summary

Object
get()
Gets the next object from the buffer without removing it.
Object
remove()
Gets and removes the next object from the buffer.

Method Details

get

public Object get()
Gets the next object from the buffer without removing it.
Returns:
the next object in the buffer, which is not removed

remove

public Object remove()
Gets and removes the next object from the buffer.
Returns:
the next object in the buffer, which is also removed

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