Java Language Streams Creating a Stream
Example
All java Collection<E>s have stream() and parallelStream() methods from which a Stream<E> can be constructed:
Collection<String> stringList = new ArrayList<>();
Stream<String> stringStream = stringList.parallelStream();
A Stream<E> can be created from an array using one of two methods:
String[] values = { "aaa", "bbbb", "ddd", "cccc" };
Stream<String> stringStream = Arrays.stream(values);
Stream<String> stringStreamAlternative = Stream.of(values);
The difference between Arrays.stream() and Stream.of() is that Stream.of() has a varargs parameter, so it can be used like:
Stream<Integer> integerStream = Stream.of(1, 2, 3);
There are also primitive Streams that you can use. For example:
IntStream intStream = IntStream.of(1, 2, 3);
DoubleStream doubleStream = DoubleStream.of(1.0, 2.0, 3.0);
These primitive streams can also be constructed using the Arrays.stream() method:
IntStream intStream = Arrays.stream(new int[]{ 1, 2, 3 });
It is possible to create a Stream from an array with a specified range.
int[] values= new int[]{1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
IntStream intStram = Arrays.stream(values, 1, 3);
Note that any primitive stream can be converted to boxed type stream using the boxed method :
Stream<Integer> integerStream = intStream.boxed();
This can be useful in some case if you want to collect the data since primitive stream does not have any collect method that takes a Collector as argument.
Reusing intermediate operations of a stream chain
Stream is closed when ever terminal operation is called. Reusing the stream of intermediate operations, when only terminal operation is only varying. we could create a stream supplier to construct a new stream with all intermediate operations already set up.
Supplier<Stream<String>> streamSupplier = () -> Stream.of("apple", "banana","orange", "grapes", "melon","blueberry","blackberry")
.map(String::toUpperCase).sorted();
streamSupplier.get().filter(s -> s.startsWith("A")).forEach(System.out::println);
// APPLE
streamSupplier.get().filter(s -> s.startsWith("B")).forEach(System.out::println);
// BANANA
// BLACKBERRY
// BLUEBERRY
int[] arrays can be converted to List<Integer> using streams
int[] ints = {1,2,3};
List<Integer> list = IntStream.of(ints).boxed().collect(Collectors.toList());
