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284. Peeking Iterator (Medium)

Design an iterator that supports the peek operation on a list in addition to the hasNext and the next operations.

Implement the PeekingIterator class:

• PeekingIterator(int[] nums) Initializes the object with the given integer array nums.
• int next() Returns the next element in the array and moves the pointer to the next element.
• bool hasNext() Returns true if there are still elements in the array.
• int peek() Returns the next element in the array without moving the pointer.

 

Example 1:

Input
["PeekingIterator", "next", "peek", "next", "next", "hasNext"]
[[[1, 2, 3]], [], [], [], [], []]
Output
[null, 1, 2, 2, 3, false]

Explanation
PeekingIterator peekingIterator = new PeekingIterator([1, 2, 3]); // [1,2,3]
peekingIterator.next();    // return 1, the pointer moves to the next element [1,2,3].
peekingIterator.peek();    // return 2, the pointer does not move [1,2,3].
peekingIterator.next();    // return 2, the pointer moves to the next element [1,2,3]
peekingIterator.next();    // return 3, the pointer moves to the next element [1,2,3]
peekingIterator.hasNext(); // return False

 

Constraints:

• 1 <= nums.length <= 1000
• 1 <= nums[i] <= 1000
• All the calls to next and peek are valid.
• At most 1000 calls will be made to next, hasNext, and peek.

 

Follow up: How would you extend your design to be generic and work with all types, not just integer?

Related Topics

[Design] [Array] [Iterator]

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Hints

Hint 1

Think of "looking ahead". You want to cache the next element.

Hint 2

Is one variable sufficient? Why or why not?

Hint 3

Test your design with call order of peek() before next() vs next() before peek().

Hint 4

For a clean implementation, check out Google's guava library source code.