Today, I will discuss a relatively simple and very commonly used behavioral design pattern called — Iterator Design Pattern. Iterator Pattern provides a simple way to iterate through the collection of objects.
Iterator Design Pattern
- The Iterator Design Pattern is one of twenty-three well known GoF design patterns provides a way to access the elements of an aggregate object sequentially without exposing its underlying representation.
- Iterator Design Pattern provides an Iterator object to traverse a collection/container and access its member objects.
- Iterator Design Pattern is a relatively simple design pattern, which we use almost in every project.
- Few container requires an algorithm to access the member elements. Iterator Design Pattern decouples any such algorithm from the container.
- The algorithm can be written separately to use by the Iterator and hence can be use by any container which supports that kind of Iterator object.
- The Iterator Design Pattern provides flexible and reusable solution of traversing member objects of a container/collection. That make our collection object easier to implement, change, test and reuse.
- Iterator object also facilitate removing of member object while traversing the collection. So, it's one of the solution of ConcurrentModificationException.
