Update java lambda expression guilde (#19102)

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Anh N. Nguyen
2018-10-16 07:57:27 +07:00
committed by Manish Giri
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@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ The Stream Api is used in java to allow chaining of sequential and aggregate ope
In this small example you can see that one of the utilities of a stream is to receive a certain property of all objects in a list and return it in another list using intermediate and terminal operations.
Assume you have an object class of Student.
``java
```java
public class Student {
int studentId;
String studentName;
@ -28,27 +28,27 @@ public class Student {
}
// setters
}
``
```
Now assume in some method you have a list of all the students and want to get a list of all the student names.
Traditionally this can looks something like this.
``java
```java
List<Student> students = some list of student objects
List<String> studentNames = new ArrayList<>();
for(Student student: students) {
studentNames.add(student.getStudentName());
}
``
```
While this isn't terrible it can be simplified.
Using streams this is possible with one line of code.
``java
```java
List<Student> students = some list of student objects
List<String> studentNames = students.stream().map(String::getStudentName).collect(Collectors.toList());
``
```
The students stream api goes over the list of students and uses the intermediate map function to return a new list of streams using whatever method is on the right of the ::