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package org.springframework.batch.item.support;

import java.util.Iterator;

import org.springframework.batch.item.ItemReader;
import org.springframework.batch.item.ParseException;
import org.springframework.batch.item.UnexpectedInputException;
import org.springframework.util.Assert;

/**
 * An {@link ItemReader} that pulls data from a {@link Iterator} or
 * {@link Iterable} using the constructors.
 * 
 * @author Juliusz Brzostek
 * @author Dave Syer
 */
public class IteratorItemReader<T> implements ItemReader<T> {

	/**
	 * Internal iterator
	 */
	private final Iterator<T> iterator;

	/**
	 * Construct a new reader from this iterable (could be a collection), by
	 * extracting an instance of {@link Iterator} from it.
	 * 
	 * @param iterable in instance of {@link Iterable}
	 * 
	 * @see Iterable#iterator()
	 */
	public IteratorItemReader(Iterable<T> iterable) {
		Assert.notNull(iterable, "Iterable argument cannot be null!");
		this.iterator = iterable.iterator();
	}

	/**
	 * Construct a new reader from this iterator directly.
	 * @param iterator an instance of {@link Iterator}
	 */
	public IteratorItemReader(Iterator<T> iterator) {
		Assert.notNull(iterator, "Iterator argument cannot be null!");
		this.iterator = iterator;
	}

	/**
	 * Implementation of {@link ItemReader#read()} that just iterates over the
	 * iterator provided.
	 */
    @Override
	public T read() throws Exception, UnexpectedInputException, ParseException {
		if (iterator.hasNext())
			return iterator.next();
		else
			return null; // end of data
	}

}