simplifying java with lambdas (short)

Simplifying with LambdasRichard Warburton

What do you mean simple?

Streams

Collectors

Conclusion

Lambda Expressions are here in Java 8!

What can we simplify?

Writing

Reading

Change

Better Libraries through Code as Data

button.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event) { System.out.println("button clicked"); }});

button.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event) { System.out.println("button clicked"); }});

button.addActionListener(?);

button.addActionListener(event -> ?);

button.addActionListener(event ->System.out.println("button clicked")

);

String name = getName();Runnable runnable =

() -> System.out.println(“Hello “ + name);

FUNCTIONAL INTERFACES

Everything in Java has a type

Problem: Need a type to represent a method

Solution: Use interfaces with a single method

public interface ActionListener { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event);}

INFERENCE

button.addActionListener(event ->System.out.println("button clicked")

);

public interface ActionListener { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event);}

What do you mean simple?

Streams

Collectors

Conclusion

STREAMS

Support automated data parallelism

Abstraction to build computation pipelines

Iterator with inversion of control

int count = 0;for (Artist artist : artists) {

if (artist.isFrom("London")) {count++;

}}

EXTERNAL ITERATION

artists.stream()

.filter(artist -> artist.isFrom("London"))

.count();

INTERNAL ITERATION

List<String> collected = Stream.of("a", "b", "hello") .map(item -> item.toUpperCase()) .collect(toList());

assertEquals(asList("A", "B", "HELLO"),collected);

List<String> beginningWithNumbers =

Stream.of("a", "1abc", "abc1")

.filter(value -> isDigit(value.charAt(0)))

.collect(toList());

assertEquals(

asList("1abc"),

beginningWithNumbers);

int sum = Stream.of(1, 2, 3, 4) .reduce(0, (acc, x) -> acc + x);

assertEquals(10, sum);

Putting it Together

for a given an album, find the nationality of every band playing on that album

Putting it Together

1. get all the artists for an album,

2. figure out which artists are bands,

3. find the nationalities of each band

4. put together a list of these values.

Putting it Together

Set<String> origins =

album.getMusicians()

.filter(artist -> artist.getName().startsWith("The"))

.map(artist -> artist.getNationality())

.collect(toSet());

Eager vs Lazy

Set<String> origins =

album.getMusicians()

.filter(artist -> artist.getName().startsWith("The"))

.map(artist -> artist.getNationality())

// What’s happened at this point?

.collect(toSet());

Parallelism

Parallelism no longer means a rewrite of your code

Streams support parallelism out of the box

call .parallelStream() instead of .stream()

Performs well in the right circumstances, but not a panacea

What do you mean simple?

Streams

Collectors

Conclusion

Enter the Collector

Collection is mutable reduction

Generic API for building up final values

Already seen collect(toList())

import static java.util.stream.Collectors.*;

collect(toList());

collect(toSet());

collect(toCollection(

() -> new TreeSet<>()));

Map<Boolean, List<Artist>> bandsAndSolo =

artists.collect(partitioningBy(a -> a.isSolo()));

Map<Artist, List<Album>> albumsByArtist =

albums.collect(

groupingBy(alb -> alb.getMainMusician()));

Map<Artist, Long> albumsByArtist =

albums.collect(

groupingBy(alb -> alb.getMainMusician(),

counting()));

Recap of Collectors

Mutable Reduction

A custom collector is just implementing an interface

Can collect other valuesmin, maxaverage, sumsummary statisticsjoin together strings

What do you mean simple?

Streams

Collectors

Design Patterns

Conclusion

How did we simplify?

Behavioural abstraction

A method/class which is parameterized by different behaviours.

High Order Functions

Functions which take other functions as arguments or return functions.

Writing

Avoided repeating basic looping and collections constructs.

Reading

Words like map or reduce provide immediate understanding.

Changing

Applying the same techniques in your own code reaps huge rewards.

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