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haXe 2 Beginner's Guide

You're reading from  haXe 2 Beginner's Guide

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2011
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781849512565
Pages 288 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

haxe 2
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting to know haXe 2. Basic Syntax and Branching 3. Being Cross-platform with haXe 4. Understanding Types 5. The Dynamic Type and Properties 6. Using and Writing Interfaces, Typedefs, and Enums 7. Communication Between haXe Programs 8. Accessing Databases 9. Templating 10. Interfacing with the Target Platform 11. A Dynamic Website Using JavaScript 12. Creating a Game with haXe and Flash Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – Creating the iterator


We now have a function in our Fridge to return an iterator, but we still need to write this iterator. To keep things simple in this exercise, we will simply rely on the iterator of the Fridge's list.

Now, we will create this StorableIterator class:

package fridgeManager;

class StorableIterator
{
   private var iterator : Iterator<Storable>;

   public function hasNext() : Bool
   {
      return iterator.hasNext();
   }
   
   public function next() : Storable
   {
      return iterator.next();
   }
   
   public function new(fridge : Fridge)
   {
      iterator = fridge.storedItems.iterator();
   }
}

What just happened?

As you can see it is pretty simple and relies on the fridge list's iterator.

Just remember that the hasNext function returns a Bool stating whether there's any item left to iterate, and the next function returns the next item.

In the constructor, we just store the fridge list's iterator.

Since iterator is a typedef, we do not have...

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