Concatenate Optional Lists

ERR :

I have three Optional> which have to be combined and returned. I tried to use Optional.map() and flatmap() but was not successful.

public Optional<List<Entiy>> getRecords() {
    Optional<List<Entiy>> entity1 = repo.findAllByStatus("1");
    Optional<List<Entiy>> entity2 = repo.findAllByStatus("2");
    Optional<List<Entiy>> entity3 = repo.findAllByStatus("3");
    //Need to return a concatenation of entity1, 2 and 3
}

Any thoughts on how to do is efficiently?

Naman :

Something like :

return Optional.of(Stream.of(entity1.orElse(new ArrayList<>()), entity2.orElse(new ArrayList<>()), entity3.orElse(new ArrayList<>()))
            .flatMap(List::stream)
            .collect(Collectors.toList()));

or rather more readable as :

return Optional.of(Stream.of(entity1, entity2, entity3)
        .filter(Optional::isPresent)
        .map(Optional::get)
        .flatMap(List::stream)
        .collect(Collectors.toList()));