Java Coding Problems

Writing a custom Spliterator

Obviously, writing a custom Spliterator is not a daily task, but let's assume that we are working on a project that, for some reason, requires us to process strings that contain ideographic characters (CJKV (short for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese)) and non-ideographic characters. We want to process these strings in parallel. This mandates that we split them into characters only at positions representing ideographic characters.

Obviously, the default Spliterator will not perform as we want it to, and so we may need to write a custom Spliterator. For this, we have to implement the Spliterator interface and provide an implementation of a few methods. The implementation is available in the code that's ...