CachingIterator::__construct — Construct a new CachingIterator object for the iterator
CachingIterator::count — The number of elements in the iterator
CachingIterator::current — Return the current element
CachingIterator::getCache — Retrieve the contents of the cache
CachingIterator::getFlags — Get flags used
CachingIterator::hasNext — Check whether the inner iterator has a valid next element
CachingIterator::key — Return the key for the current element
CachingIterator::next — Move the iterator forward
CachingIterator::offsetExists — The offsetExists purpose
CachingIterator::offsetGet — The offsetGet purpose
CachingIterator::offsetSet — The offsetSet purpose
CachingIterator::offsetUnset — The offsetUnset purpose
CachingIterator::rewind — Rewind the iterator
CachingIterator::setFlags — The setFlags purpose
CachingIterator::__toString — Return the string representation of the current element
CachingIterator::valid — Check whether the current element is valid

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User Contributed Notes 4 notes

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ahmad dot mayahi at gmail dot com ¶

4 years ago

The only difference between CachingIterator and other Iterators such as ArrayIterator is the hasNext() method.

Since the data will be loaded into the memory, the CachingIterator is able to check whether the given iterator has a next element.

Let's demonstrate this by an example:

<?php
$iterator = new CachingIterator(new ArrayIterator(['C', 'C++', 'C#', 'PHP', 'Python', 'Go', 'Ruby']));

foreach ($iterator as $item) {
    if ($iterator->hasNext()) {
        echo $item.', ';
    } else {
        echo 'and '.$item;
    }
}

// C, C++, C#, PHP, Python, Go, and Ruby
?>

In this example I check whether the iterator has a next value, if so, I append a comma otherwise "and" will be appended to the last element.

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ahmad dot mayahi at gmail dot com ¶

8 years ago

<?php
//This snippet will print out all the cached elements (foreach) .

$cache  = new CachingIterator(new ArrayIterator(range(1,100)), CachingIterator::FULL_CACHE);

foreach ($cache as $c) {

}

print_r($cache->getCache());
?>

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jerome at chaman dot ca ¶

4 years ago

"cached iteration over another iterator" means this iterator is always one step behind the inner iterator. In other words, the "first" iteration will yield null:

<?php

$cit = new CachingIterator( new ArrayIterator( [ 'a', 'b', 'c']  ) );

echo $cit->current() ); // null
echo $cit->getInnerIterator()->current() ); // "a"

while($cit->hasNext()){
    
    // we start with a "next" since the "first" item is null
     $cit->next();
     echo $cit->current(), '<br>';
   
}
?>

iterating this way gives us an access, ahead, to the future item (aka current item of the inner iterator)

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xedin dot unknown at gmail dot com ¶

4 years ago

Apparently, the `FULL_CACHE` flag automatically cancels the default flag `CALL_TOSTRING`. This is evident when one of the values cannot be converted to string: with the default `CALL_TOSTRING` flag, it would throw an error; without that flag, or with the `FULL_CACHE` flag, it does not.

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