In this tutorial, we will learn different ways to create Stream objects using different sources. First, we will see the overview of Stream and the characteristics of streams.
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1. Stream API Overview
A stream represents a sequence of objects from a source, which supports aggregate operations.
Java provides a new additional package in Java 8 called java.util.stream. This package consists of classes, interfaces, and an enum to allows functional-style operations on the elements. You can use stream by importing java.util.stream package in your programs.
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2. Characteristics of a Stream
- A stream provides a set of elements of a specific type in a sequential manner. A stream gets/computes elements on demand. It never stores the elements.
- Source − Stream takes Collections, Arrays, or I/O resources as an input source.
- The stream is functional in nature. Operations performed on a stream does not modify its source.
- Aggregate operations − Stream supports aggregate operations like filter, map, limit, reduce, find, match, and so on.
3. Different ways to create Stream objects in Java 8
1. Empty Stream
The empty() method should be used in case of the creation of an empty stream:
Stream<String> stream = Stream.empty();
stream.forEach(System.out::println);
It's often the case that the empty() method is used upon creation to avoid returning null for streams with no element:
public Stream<String> streamOf(List<String> list) {
return list == null || list.isEmpty() ? Stream.empty() : list.stream();
}
2. From Collections
A stream can be created of any type of Collection (Collection, List, Set):
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.stream.Stream;
public class StreamCreationExamples {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
Collection<String> collection = Arrays.asList("JAVA", "J2EE", "Spring", "Hibernate");
Stream<String> stream2 = collection.stream();
stream2.forEach(System.out::println);
List<String> list = Arrays.asList("JAVA", "J2EE", "Spring", "Hibernate");
Stream<String> stream3 = list.stream();
stream3.forEach(System.out::println);
Set<String> set = new HashSet<>(list);
Stream<String> stream4 = set.stream();
stream4.forEach(System.out::println);
}
}
Output:
JAVA
J2EE
Spring
Hibernate
JAVA
J2EE
Spring
Hibernate
JAVA
Hibernate
J2EE
Spring3. From Arrays
Array can be a source of a Stream or Array can be created from the existing array or of a part of an array:
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.stream.Stream;
public class StreamCreationExamples {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
// Array can also be a source of a Stream
Stream<String> streamOfArray = Stream.of("a", "b", "c");
streamOfArray.forEach(System.out::println);
// creating from existing array or of a part of an array:
String[] arr = new String[] { "a", "b", "c" };
Stream<String> streamOfArrayFull = Arrays.stream(arr);
streamOfArrayFull.forEach(System.out::println);
Stream<String> streamOfArrayPart = Arrays.stream(arr, 1, 3);
streamOfArrayPart.forEach(System.out::println);
}
}
Output:
a
b
c
a
b
c
b
c4. From Stream.builder()
When a builder is used the desired type should be additionally specified in the right part of the statement, otherwise, the build() method will create an instance of the Stream:
Stream<String> streamBuilder = Stream.<String>builder().add("a").add("b").add("c").build();
streamBuilder.forEach(System.out::println);
Output:
a
b
c5. From Stream.generate()
Stream<String> streamGenerated = Stream.generate(() -> "element").limit(10);
streamGenerated.forEach(System.out::println);
Output:
element
element
element
element
element6. From Stream.iterate()
Stream<Integer> streamIterated = Stream.iterate(1, n -> n + 2).limit(5);
streamIterated.forEach(System.out::println);
Output:
1
3
5
7
97. Stream of File
Java NIO class Files allows to generate a Stream of a text file through the lines() method. Every line of the text becomes an element of the stream:
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.util.stream.Stream;
public class StreamCreationExamples {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
Path path = Paths.get("C:\\file.txt");
Stream<String> streamOfStrings = Files.lines(path);
Stream<String> streamWithCharset = Files.lines(path, Charset.forName("UTF-8"));
streamOfStrings.forEach(System.out::println);
streamWithCharset.forEach(System.out::println);
streamOfStrings.close();
streamWithCharset.close();
}
}
8. Stream of Primitives
As Stream is a generic interface and there is no way to use primitives as a type parameter with generics, three new special interfaces were created: IntStream, LongStream, DoubleStream.
Using the new interfaces alleviates unnecessary auto-boxing allows increased productivity:
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Random;
import java.util.stream.DoubleStream;
import java.util.stream.IntStream;
import java.util.stream.LongStream;
public class StreamCreationExamples {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
IntStream intStream = IntStream.range(1, 3);
intStream.forEach(System.out::println);
LongStream longStream = LongStream.rangeClosed(1, 3);
longStream.forEach(System.out::println);
Random random = new Random();
DoubleStream doubleStream = random.doubles(3);
doubleStream.forEach(System.out::println);
}
}
Output:
1
2
1
2
3
0.6929414814363383
0.3683384343302385
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