com.bloomberglp.blpapi

Class MessageIterator

java.lang.Object

com.bloomberglp.blpapi.MessageIterator

All Implemented Interfaces:

Iterator<Message>

public class MessageIterator
extends Object
implements Iterator<Message>

An iterator over the Message objects within an Event

MessageIterator objects are used to process the individual Message objects in an Event received in an EventHandler, from EventQueue.nextEvent() or from AbstractSession.nextEvent(). This class is used to iterate over each message in an Event. You can use the MessageIterator as follows

 MessageIterator msgIter = event.messageIterator();
 while (msgIter.hasNext()) {
     Message msg = msgIter.next();
     ...
 }
 

Author:

Siva Somu (ssomu)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	hasNext() Returns true if the iteration has more elements.
Message	next() Return the next element in the iteration
void	remove() The remove operation is not supported by this Iterator

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface java.util.Iterator

forEachRemaining

Method Detail

next

public Message next()

Return the next element in the iteration

Return the next element in the iteration and Attempts to advance this MessageIterator to the next Message in this Event

Specified by:

next in interface Iterator<Message>

Returns:

the next Message in the iteration

Throws:

NoSuchElementException - if the iteration has no more elements

hasNext

public boolean hasNext()

Returns true if the iteration has more elements.

(In other words, returns true if next() would return an element rather than throwing an exception.)

Specified by:

hasNext in interface Iterator<Message>

Returns:

true if the iterator has more elements

remove

public void remove()

The remove operation is not supported by this Iterator

Specified by:

remove in interface Iterator<Message>

Throws:

UnsupportedOperationException - is always thrown.