Hi, in compress I've added a method to ZipFile that provides access to a subset of the entries. It already contained a method returning an Enumeration of all entries - Enumeration as it mimics java.util.ZipFile which was invented in Java 1.0.
For this new method I've chosen to return an Iterator for now - there is no reason to use Enumeration and it seemed to be closest. In fact I first implemented it returning Iterable and changed it later. I've been doing quite a bit of .NET over the past years and there IEnumerable would have been the no-brainer choice - which translates into Iterable in Java. Lot's of .NET APIs use IEnumerable. My personal preference would be Iterable as well as the consumer may iterate over the return value multiple times without copying stuff around, but I may be missing something. There don't seem to be many APIs in the Java classlib that consume Iterators or Iterables at all. That's why I bring up Collection in the subject. Any insights or recommendations what to return? Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
