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Iterator providing read‐only access to category manager categories.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<ball_categorymanager.h>`

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class CategoryManagerIter;
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== Description

This class defines an iterator providing sequential, read‐only access to the categories in the registry of a category manager. The order of the iteration is undefined.

DEPRECATED: Use the `CategoryManager::visitCategories` accessor instead.

== Member Functions

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| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/ball/CategoryManagerIter/2constructor.adoc[`CategoryManagerIter`]         [.small]#[constructor]#
| Create an iterator over categories in `categoryManager`.
| xref:BloombergLP/ball/CategoryManagerIter/operator_call.adoc[`operator()`] 
| Return a `const` reference to the category currently referred to by this iterator. The behavior is undefined unless this iterator is valid.
| xref:BloombergLP/ball/CategoryManagerIter/operator_inc.adoc[`operator++`] 
| Advance this iterator to the next unvisited category.
| xref:BloombergLP/ball/CategoryManagerIter/2conversion.adoc[`operator void const*`] 
| Return a non‐zero value if this iterator is valid, and 0 otherwise.
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