When you have a Stream
you need to map but want to preserve the initial values as well, you can map the Stream
to a Map.Entry<K,V>
using a utility method like the following:
public static <K, V> Function<K, Map.Entry<K, V>> entryMapper(Function<K, V> mapper){
return (k)->new AbstractMap.SimpleEntry<>(k, mapper.apply(k));
}
Then you can use your converter to process Stream
s having access to both the original and mapped values:
Set<K> mySet;
Function<K, V> transformer = SomeClass::transformerMethod;
Stream<Map.Entry<K, V>> entryStream = mySet.stream()
.map(entryMapper(transformer));
You can then continue to process that Stream
as normal. This avoids the overhead of creating an intermediate collection.