Streams is a new concept or should be specifically mentioned as an ‘Interface’ that’s been introduced in Java 8. Please make sure to not get confused it with Java I/O Streams. The stream is a sequence of objects and the objective of Stream API is to process the collection of objects. In this post, we will see how to double the numbers present in an ArrayList with the help of Java 8 Streams.
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Let’s say: There is an ArrayList of 10 integer values as shown below. Using Streams, we are going to double each ArrayList value.
Syntax
1 | List<Integer> list = Arrays.asList(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10); |
Example
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 | import static java.util.stream.Collectors.toList; import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.List; public class DoubleNumbersOfArrayListUsingStreams { public static void main(String[] args) { List<Integer> list = Arrays.asList(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10); List<Integer> doubleArrayListNumbers = list.stream() .map(i -> i*2) .collect(toList()); System.out.println("Double values of ArrayList Integers: "+doubleArrayListNumbers); } } |
Output:
1 | Double values of ArrayList Integers: [2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20] |
Let me explain a little bit about methods that are being used here from Stream API:
1. map:
Package:
Description:
Returns a stream consisting of the results of applying the given function to the elements of this stream.
Operation Type:
intermediate operation
Type Parameters:
- <R> The element type of the new stream
Parameters:
- mapper a non-interfering, stateless function to apply to each element
Returns:
- the new stream
2. Collect:
Package:
Description:
Performs a mutable reduction operation on the elements of this stream using a Collector. A Collector encapsulates the functions used as arguments to collect(Supplier, BiConsumer, BiConsumer), allowing for reuse of collection strategies and composition of collect operations such as multiple – level grouping or partitioning.
If the stream is parallel, and the Collector is concurrent, and either the stream is unordered or the collector is unordered, then a concurrent reduction will be performed(see Collector for details on concurrent reduction.)
Operation Type:
This is a terminal operation.
Type Parameters:
<R> the type of the result
<A> the intermediate accumulation type of the Collector
Parameters:
collector the Collector describing the reductionReturns: the result of the reduction
Returns:
- the result of the reduction
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