Stepper

scala.collection.Stepper

See theStepper companion object

trait Stepper[+A]

Steppers exist to enable creating Java streams over Scala collections, see scala.jdk.StreamConverters. Besides that use case, they allow iterating over collections holding unboxed primitives (e.g., Array[Int]) without boxing the elements.

Steppers have an iterator-like interface with methods hasStep and nextStep(). The difference to iterators - and the reason Stepper is not a subtype of Iterator - is that there are hand-specialized variants of Stepper for Int, Long and Double (IntStepper, etc.). These enable iterating over collections holding unboxed primitives (e.g., Arrays, scala.jdk.Accumulators) without boxing the elements.

The selection of primitive types (Int, Long and Double) matches the hand-specialized variants of Java Streams (java.util.stream.Stream, java.util.stream.IntStream, etc.) and the corresponding Java Spliterators (java.util.Spliterator, java.util.Spliterator.OfInt, etc.).

Steppers can be converted to Scala Iterators, Java Iterators and Java Spliterators. Primitive Steppers are converted to the corresponding primitive Java Iterators and Spliterators.

Type parameters

A: the element type of the Stepper

Attributes

Companion: object
Source: Stepper.scala
Graph
Supertypes: class Object

trait Matchable

class Any
Known subtypes: trait AnyStepper[A]

trait DoubleStepper

trait IntStepper

trait LongStepper

Members list

Value members

Abstract methods

Returns a set of characteristics of this Stepper and its elements.

Returns a set of characteristics of this Stepper and its elements. See method characteristics in java.util.Spliterator.

Attributes

Source: Stepper.scala

Returns an estimate of the number of elements of this Stepper, or Long.MaxValue.

Returns an estimate of the number of elements of this Stepper, or Long.MaxValue. See method estimateSize in java.util.Spliterator.

Attributes

Source: Stepper.scala

Check if there's an element available.

Attributes

Source: Stepper.scala

Returns a Java java.util.Iterator corresponding to this Stepper.

Note that the return type is Iterator[_] instead of Iterator[A] to allow returning a java.util.PrimitiveIterator.OfInt (which is a Iterator[Integer]) in the subclass IntStepper (which is a Stepper[Int]).

Attributes

Source: Stepper.scala

Return the next element and advance the stepper

Attributes

Source: Stepper.scala

Returns a java.util.Spliterator corresponding to this Stepper.

Note that the return type is Spliterator[_] instead of Spliterator[A] to allow returning a java.util.Spliterator.OfInt (which is a Spliterator[Integer]) in the subclass IntStepper (which is a Stepper[Int]).