Completely lost

Interesting side note. This task is mimicking how an Iterator is actually formed. I am talking about the iterators that are used to iterate through a collection. An iterator is only an interface. When you call the .iterator() method on a collection it returns an anonymous class that implements the interface. This provides a standard way of traversing a collection that doesn't require a bunch of special code to handle the way that the specific collection stores and retrieves its data. For example, with ArrayLists you can retrieve an item by its index number, but with HashMaps index numbers have no meaning and instead you retrieve values with keys. With HashSets you can't even retrieve the values with just the Sets methods and have to use an iterator to do such.

I forgot to mention that you can't return a new LocalIterator within the next() method. It shouldn't be too hard to intuit what you should return (and it isn't wirting code for an additional anonymous class). I'll give you a hint. The code inside the anonymous class has access to all the code within the class that it comes from: methods, fields, public to private.

All I did now was:

public Iterator next() {
     return new LocalIterator(){

     };

still failing obviously. I'm still completely lost with this task, why and how to create this anonymous class, and how to return it. I also can't tell what the iterator next() method is doing. In the public Iterator getIterator(final String name) method we create an Iterator class and then return it at the end of the method. So why do we need a method inside the inner class itself to return the Object (apart from having to implement the interface's methods)?