From 278eed3e1f7cfef2d39a25aba53f4478c3ad8c58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Neidhart <tn@apache.org>
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 19:12:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add again chainedIterator method with 2 iterators to avoid
 generics warning in client code.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/collections/trunk@1479682 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 .../commons/collections4/IteratorUtils.java      | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections4/IteratorUtils.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections4/IteratorUtils.java
index 284d261b0..62ad020ac 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections4/IteratorUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections4/IteratorUtils.java
@@ -471,6 +471,22 @@ public class IteratorUtils {
 
     // Chained
     //-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    /**
+     * Gets an iterator that iterates through two {@link Iterator}s
+     * one after another.
+     *
+     * @param <E>  the element type
+     * @param iterator1  the first iterator to use, not null
+     * @param iterator2  the second iterator to use, not null
+     * @return a combination iterator over the iterators
+     * @throws NullPointerException if either iterator is null
+     */
+    public static <E> Iterator<E> chainedIterator(final Iterator<? extends E> iterator1,
+                                                  final Iterator<? extends E> iterator2) {
+        return new IteratorChain<E>(iterator1, iterator2);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Gets an iterator that iterates through an array of {@link Iterator}s
      * one after another.