public interface

Enumeration

java.util.Enumeration<T>
Known Indirect Subclasses

Class Overview

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 v:

     for (Enumeration 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.

Summary

Public Methods
abstract boolean hasMoreElements()
Tests if this enumeration contains more elements.
abstract T nextElement()
Returns the next element of this enumeration if this enumeration object has at least one more element to provide.

Public Methods

public abstract boolean hasMoreElements ()

Tests if this enumeration contains more elements.

Returns
  • true if and only if this enumeration object contains at least one more element to provide; false otherwise.

public abstract T nextElement ()

Returns the next element of this enumeration if this enumeration object has at least one more element to provide.

Returns
  • the next element of this enumeration.
Throws
NoSuchElementException if no more elements exist.