To achieve that one can do it in several ways, namely:
Methods that return the number of occurrence of a single element:
Collection Frequency
Collections.frequency(animals, "bat");
Java Stream:
Filter
animals.stream().filter("bat"::equals).count();
Just iteration thought the list
public static long manually(Collection<?> c, Object o){
int count = 0;
for(Object e : c)
if(e.equals(o))
count++;
return count;
}
Methods that create a map of frequencies:
Collectors.groupingBy
Map<String, Long> counts =
animals.stream()
.collect(Collectors.groupingBy(Function.identity(), Collectors.counting()));
merge
Map<String, Long> map = new HashMap<>();
c.forEach(e -> map.merge(e, 1L, Long::sum));
Manually
Map<String, Integer> mp = new HashMap<>();
animals.forEach(animal -> mp.compute(animal, (k, v) -> (v == null) ? 1 : v + 1));
A running example with all the methods:
import java.util.*;
import java.util.function.Function;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
public class Frequency {
public static int frequency(Collection<?> c, Object o){
return Collections.frequency(c, o);
}
public static long filter(Collection<?> c, Object o){
return c.stream().filter(o::equals).count();
}
public static long manually(Collection<?> c, Object o){
int count = 0;
for(Object e : c)
if(e.equals(o))
count++;
return count;
}
public static Map<?, Long> mapGroupBy(Collection<?> c){
return c.stream()
.collect(Collectors.groupingBy(Function.identity() , Collectors.counting()));
}
public static Map<Object, Long> mapMerge(Collection<?> c){
Map<Object, Long> map = new HashMap<>();
c.forEach(e -> map.merge(e, 1L, Long::sum));
return map;
}
public static Map<Object, Long> manualMap(Collection<?> c){
Map<Object, Long> map = new HashMap<>();
c.forEach(e -> map.compute(e, (k, v) -> (v == null) ? 1 : v + 1));
return map;
}
public static void main(String[] args){
List<String> animals = new ArrayList<>();
animals.add("bat");
animals.add("owl");
animals.add("bat");
animals.add("bat");
System.out.println(frequency(animals, "bat"));
System.out.println(filter(animals,"bat"));
System.out.println(manually(animals,"bat"));
mapGroupBy(animals).forEach((k, v) -> System.out.println(k + " -> "+v));
mapMerge(animals).forEach((k, v) -> System.out.println(k + " -> "+v));
manualMap(animals).forEach((k, v) -> System.out.println(k + " -> "+v));
}
}
The methods name should have reflected what those methods are doing, however, I used the name to reflect the approach being used instead (given that in the current context it is okey).
