Java Language Tutorial => Flatten Streams with flatMap()

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A Stream of items that are in turn streamable can be flattened into a single continuous Stream:

Array of List of Items can be converted into a single List.

List<String> list1 =  Arrays.asList("one", "two");
      List<String> list2 =  Arrays.asList("three","four","five");
      List<String> list3 =  Arrays.asList("six");
          List<String> finalList = Stream.of(list1, list2, list3).flatMap(Collection::stream).collect(Collectors.toList());
System.out.println(finalList);

// [one, two, three, four, five, six]

Map containing List of Items as values can be Flattened to a Combined List

Map<String, List<Integer>> map = new LinkedHashMap<>();
map.put("a", Arrays.asList(1, 2, 3));
map.put("b", Arrays.asList(4, 5, 6));

List<Integer> allValues = map.values() // Collection<List<Integer>>
        .stream()                      // Stream<List<Integer>>
        .flatMap(List::stream)         // Stream<Integer>
        .collect(Collectors.toList());

System.out.println(allValues);
// [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

List of Map can be flattened into a single continuous Stream

List<Map<String, String>> list = new ArrayList<>();
Map<String,String> map1 = new HashMap();
map1.put("1", "one");
map1.put("2", "two");

Map<String,String> map2 = new HashMap();
map2.put("3", "three");
map2.put("4", "four");
list.add(map1);
list.add(map2);


Set<String> output= list.stream()  //  Stream<Map<String, String>>
    .map(Map::values)              // Stream<List<String>>
    .flatMap(Collection::stream)   // Stream<String>
    .collect(Collectors.toSet());  //Set<String>
// [one, two, three,four]

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