/* * Copyright (c) 1994, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. * ORACLE PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ package java.util; /** * The <code>Stack</code> class represents a last-in-first-out * (LIFO) stack of objects. It extends class <tt>Vector</tt> with five * operations that allow a vector to be treated as a stack. The usual * <tt>push</tt> and <tt>pop</tt> operations are provided, as well as a * method to <tt>peek</tt> at the top item on the stack, a method to test * for whether the stack is <tt>empty</tt>, and a method to <tt>search</tt> * the stack for an item and discover how far it is from the top. * <p> * When a stack is first created, it contains no items. * * <p>A more complete and consistent set of LIFO stack operations is * provided by the {@link Deque} interface and its implementations, which * should be used in preference to this class. For example: * <pre> {@code * Deque<Integer> stack = new ArrayDeque<Integer>();}</pre> * * @author Jonathan Payne * @since JDK1.0 */ public class Stack<E> extends Vector<E> { /** * Creates an empty Stack. */ public Stack() { } /** * Pushes an item onto the top of this stack. This has exactly * the same effect as: * <blockquote><pre> * addElement(item)</pre></blockquote> * * @param item the item to be pushed onto this stack. * @return the <code>item</code> argument. * @see java.util.Vector#addElement */ public E push(E item) { addElement(item); return item; } /** * Removes the object at the top of this stack and returns that * object as the value of this function. * * @return The object at the top of this stack (the last item * of the <tt>Vector</tt> object). * @throws EmptyStackException if this stack is empty. */ public synchronized E pop() { E obj; int len = size(); obj = peek(); removeElementAt(len - 1); return obj; } /** * Looks at the object at the top of this stack without removing it * from the stack. * * @return the object at the top of this stack (the last item * of the <tt>Vector</tt> object). * @throws EmptyStackException if this stack is empty. */ public synchronized E peek() { int len = size(); if (len == 0) throw new EmptyStackException(); return elementAt(len - 1); } /** * Tests if this stack is empty. * * @return <code>true</code> if and only if this stack contains * no items; <code>false</code> otherwise. */ public boolean empty() { return size() == 0; } /** * Returns the 1-based position where an object is on this stack. * If the object <tt>o</tt> occurs as an item in this stack, this * method returns the distance from the top of the stack of the * occurrence nearest the top of the stack; the topmost item on the * stack is considered to be at distance <tt>1</tt>. The <tt>equals</tt> * method is used to compare <tt>o</tt> to the * items in this stack. * * @param o the desired object. * @return the 1-based position from the top of the stack where * the object is located; the return value <code>-1</code> * indicates that the object is not on the stack. */ public synchronized int search(Object o) { int i = lastIndexOf(o); if (i >= 0) { return size() - i; } return -1; } /** use serialVersionUID from JDK 1.0.2 for interoperability */ private static final long serialVersionUID = 1224463164541339165L; }