Sara Vino :
Having an Optional List of Optional's like:
Optional<List<Optional<String>>> optionalList = Optional.of(
Arrays.asList(
Optional.empty(),
Optional.of("ONE"),
Optional.of("TWO")));
How to traverse optionalList
to print out the string's ONE
and TWO
?
What about having an Optional Stream of Optionals?
Optional<Stream<Optional<String>>> optionalStream = Optional.of(
Stream.of(
Optional.empty(),
Optional.of("ONE"),
Optional.of("TWO")));
Update: Thanks for answers, solution for optionalStream (non nested):
optionalStream
.orElseGet(Stream::empty)
.filter(Optional::isPresent)
.map(Optional::get)
.forEach(System.out::println);
user7 :
First, check if the Optional
is present. If yes, then stream the list and filter the non-empty ones and print each of them.
optionalList.ifPresent(list -> list.stream()
.filter(Optional::isPresent)
.map(Optional::get)
.forEach(System.out::println));
Almost similar for the stream case too
optionalStream.ifPresent(stream -> stream
.filter(Optional::isPresent)
.map(Optional::get)
.forEach(System.out::println));