Java Iterator backed by a ResultSet

Question

I\'ve got a class that implements Iterator with a ResultSet as a data member. Essentially the class looks like this:

public class A implements Iterator{
            


        

Answer 1

You can get out of this pickle by performing a look-ahead in the hasNext() and remembering that you did a lookup to prevent consuming too many records, something like:

public class A implements Iterator{
    private ResultSet entities;
    private boolean didNext = false;
    private boolean hasNext = false;
    ...
    public Object next(){
        if (!didNext) {
            entities.next();
        }
        didNext = false;
        return new Entity(entities.getString...etc....)
    }

    public boolean hasNext(){
        if (!didNext) {
            hasNext = entities.next();
            didNext = true;
        }
        return hasNext;
    }
    ...
}