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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.collections4.iterators;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
+import java.util.Objects;
+
+
+/**
+ * This iterator creates a Cartesian product of the input iterables,
+ * equivalent to nested for-loops.
+ * <p>
+ * The iterables provided to the constructor are used in reverse order, each
+ * until exhaustion before proceeding to the next element of the prior iterable
+ * and repeating. Consider the following example:
+ * <pre>{@code
+ * List<Character> iterable1 = Arrays.asList('A', 'B', 'C');
+ * List<Character> iterable2 = Arrays.asList('1', '2', '3');
+ * CartesianProductIterator<Character> it = new CartesianProductIterator<>(
+ *     iterable1,
+ *     iterable2);
+ * while (it.hasNext()) {
+ *     List<Character> tuple = it.next();
+ *     System.out.println(tuple.get(0) + ", " + tuple.get(1));
+ * }
+ * }</pre>
+ * The output will be:
+ * <pre>
+ * A, 1
+ * A, 2
+ * A, 3
+ * B, 1
+ * B, 2
+ * B, 3
+ * C, 1
+ * C, 2
+ * C, 3
+ * </pre>
+ * <p>
+ * The {@code remove()} operation is not supported, and will throw an
+ * {@code UnsupportedOperationException}.
+ *
+ * @param <E>  the type of the objects being permuted
+ */
+public class CartesianProductIterator<E> implements Iterator<List<E>> {
+
+    /**
+     * The iterables to create the Cartesian product from.
+     */
+    private final List<Iterable<? extends E>> iterables;
+
+    /**
+     * The iterators to generate the Cartesian product tuple from.
+     */
+    private final List<Iterator<? extends E>> iterators;
+
+    /**
+     * The previous generated tuple of elements.
+     */
+    private List<E> previousTuple;
+
+    /**
+     * Standard constructor for this class.
+     *
+     * @param iterables the iterables to create the Cartesian product from
+     * @throws NullPointerException if any of the iterables is null
+     */
+    public CartesianProductIterator(final Iterable<? extends E>... iterables) {
+        Objects.requireNonNull(iterables, "iterables");
+        this.iterables = Arrays.asList(iterables);
+        this.iterators = new ArrayList<>(iterables.length);
+        for (final Iterable<? extends E> iterable : iterables) {
+            Objects.requireNonNull(iterable, "iterable");
+            final Iterator<? extends E> iterator = iterable.iterator();
+            if (iterator.hasNext()) {
+                iterators.add(iterator);
+            } else {
+                iterators.clear();
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Indicates if there are more tuples to return.
+     * @return true if there are more tuples, otherwise false
+     */
+    @Override
+    public boolean hasNext() {
+        for (final Iterator<? extends E> iterator : iterators) {
+            if (iterator.hasNext()) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the next tuple of the input iterables.
+     * @return a list of the input iterables' elements
+     * @throws NoSuchElementException if there are no more tuples
+     */
+    @Override
+    public List<E> next() {
+        if (!hasNext()) {
+            throw new NoSuchElementException();
+        }
+
+        if (previousTuple == null) {
+            previousTuple = new ArrayList<>(iterables.size());
+            for (final Iterator<? extends E> iterator : iterators) {
+                previousTuple.add(iterator.next());
+            }
+            return new ArrayList<>(previousTuple);
+        }
+
+        for (int i = iterators.size() - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+            Iterator<? extends E> iterator = iterators.get(i);
+            if (iterator.hasNext()) {
+                previousTuple.set(i, iterator.next());
+                return new ArrayList<>(previousTuple);
+            }
+            iterator = iterables.get(i).iterator();
+            iterators.set(i, iterator);
+            previousTuple.set(i, iterator.next());
+        }
+        throw new IllegalStateException();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void remove() {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("remove() is not supported");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/collections4/iterators/CartesianProductIteratorTest.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/collections4/iterators/CartesianProductIteratorTest.java
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.collections4.iterators;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertArrayEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertFalse;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertThrows;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+
+/**
+ * Test class for {@link CartesianProductIterator}.
+ */
+public class CartesianProductIteratorTest extends AbstractIteratorTest<List<Character>> {
+
+    private List<Character> letters;
+    private List<Character> numbers;
+    private List<Character> symbols;
+
+    public CartesianProductIteratorTest() {
+        super(CartesianProductIteratorTest.class.getSimpleName());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public CartesianProductIterator<Character> makeEmptyIterator() {
+        return new CartesianProductIterator<>();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public CartesianProductIterator<Character> makeObject() {
+        return new CartesianProductIterator<>(letters, numbers, symbols);
+    }
+
+    @BeforeEach
+    public void setUp() {
+        letters = Arrays.asList('A', 'B', 'C');
+        numbers = Arrays.asList('1', '2', '3');
+        symbols = Arrays.asList('!', '?');
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean supportsRemove() {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testEmptyCollection() {
+        final CartesianProductIterator<Character> it = new CartesianProductIterator<>(letters, Collections.emptyList());
+        assertFalse(it.hasNext());
+        assertThrows(NoSuchElementException.class, () -> it.next());
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * test checking that all the tuples are returned
+     */
+    @Test
+    public void testCartesianProductExhaustivity() {
+        final List<Character[]> resultsList = new ArrayList<>();
+
+        final CartesianProductIterator<Character> it = makeObject();
+        while (it.hasNext()) {
+            final List<Character> tuple = it.next();
+            resultsList.add(tuple.toArray(new Character[0]));
+        }
+        assertThrows(NoSuchElementException.class, () -> it.next());
+        assertEquals(18, resultsList.size());
+        final Iterator<Character[]> itResults = resultsList.iterator();
+        for (final Character a : letters) {
+            for (final Character b : numbers) {
+                for (final Character c : symbols) {
+                    assertArrayEquals(new Character[]{a, b, c}, itResults.next());
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}