tl;dr
It's not possible to achieve what you desire using Java (8+) inbuilt collector, but you can write your own custom collector and write code like below to collect into a map as -
Map<String, Language> languages = items.stream().collect(LanguageCollector.toLanguage());
Let's first look at Collector<T, A, R> interface
public interface Collector<T, A, R> {
/**
* A function that creates and returns a new mutable result container.
*/
Supplier<A> supplier();
/**
* A function that folds a value into a mutable result container.
*/
BiConsumer<A, T> accumulator();
/**
* A function that accepts two partial results and merges them. The
* combiner function may fold state from one argument into the other and
* return that, or may return a new result container.
*/
BinaryOperator<A> combiner();
/**
* Perform the final transformation from the intermediate accumulation type
*/
Function<A, R> finisher();
/**
* Returns a Set of Collector.Characteristics indicating
* the characteristics of this Collector. This set should be immutable.
*/
Set<Characteristics> characteristics();
}
Where T is the generic type of the items in the stream to be collected.
A is the type of the accumulator, the object on which the partial result will be accumulated during the collection process.
R is the type of the object (typically, but not always, the collection) resulting
from the collect operation
Now let's look at the custom LanguageCollector
public class LanguageCollector
implements Collector<Item, Map<String, Language>, Map<String, Language>> {
/**
* The supplier method has to return a Supplier of an empty accumulator - a parameterless
* function that when invoked creates an instance of an empty accumulator used during the
* collection process.
*/
@Override
public Supplier<Map<String, Language>> supplier() {
return HashMap::new;
}
/**
* The accumulator method returns the function that performs the reduction operation. When
* traversing the nth element in the stream, this function is applied with two arguments, the
* accumulator being the result of the reduction (after having collected the first n–1 items of
* the stream) and the nth element itself. The function returns void because the accumulator is
* modified in place, meaning that its internal state is changed by the function application to
* reflect the effect of the traversed element
*/
@Override
public BiConsumer<Map<String, Language>, Item> accumulator() {
return (map, item) -> {
if (item.getLanguageName() == null) {
item.setLanguageName("unknown");
} else if (map.containsKey(item.getLanguageName())) {
map.get(item.getLanguageName()).getItems().add(item.getName());
map.get(item.getLanguageName())
.setNumberItems(map.get(item.getLanguageName()).getNumberItems() + 1);
} else {
Language language = new Language(item.getLanguageName(), 1);
language.add(item.getName());
map.put(item.getLanguageName(), language);
}
};
}
/**
* The combiner method, return a function used by the reduction operation, defines how the
* accumulators resulting from the reduction of different subparts of the stream are combined
* when the subparts are processed in parallel
*/
@Override
public BinaryOperator<Map<String, Language>> combiner() {
return (map1, map2) -> {
map1.putAll(map2);
return map1;
};
}
/**
* The finisher() method needs to return a function which transforms the accumulator to the
* final result. In this case, the accumulator is the final result as well. Therefore it is
* possible to return the identity function
*/
@Override
public Function<Map<String, Language>, Map<String, Language>> finisher() {
return Function.identity();
}
/**
* The characteristics, returns an immutable set of Characteristics, defining the behavior of
* the collector—in particular providing hints about whether the stream can be reduced in
* parallel and which optimizations are valid when doing so
*/
@Override
public Set<Characteristics> characteristics() {
return Collections.unmodifiableSet(
EnumSet.of(Characteristics.IDENTITY_FINISH));
}
/**
* Static method to create LanguageCollector
*/
public static LanguageCollector toLanguage() {
return new LanguageCollector();
}
}
I have modified your classes at little bit to (to follow the naming convention and more for readable accumulator operation).
Class Item
public class Item {
private String name;
private String languageName;
public Item(String name, String languageName) {
this.name = name;
this.languageName = languageName;
}
//Getter and Setter
}
Class Language
public class Language {
private String languageName;
private int numberItems;
private LinkedList<String> items;
public Language(String languageName, int numberItems) {
this.languageName = languageName;
this.numberItems = numberItems;
items = new LinkedList<>();
}
public void add(String item) {
items.add(item);
}
// Getter and Setter
public String toString() {
return "Language(languageName=" + this.getLanguageName() + ", numberItems=" + this.getNumberItems() + ", items=" + this.getItems() + ")";
}
}
Running code
public static void main(String[] args) {
List<Item> items =
Arrays.asList(
new Item("ItemA", "Java"),
new Item("ItemB", "Python"),
new Item("ItemC", "Java"),
new Item("ItemD", "Ruby"),
new Item("ItemE", "Python"));
Map<String, Language> languages = items.stream().collect(LanguageCollector.toLanguage());
System.out.println(languages);
}
prints
{Java=Language(languageName=Java, numberItems=2, items=[ItemA, ItemC]), Ruby=Language(languageName=Ruby, numberItems=1, items=[ItemD]), Python=Language(languageName=Python, numberItems=2, items=[ItemB, ItemE])}
For more information please read book 'Modern Java in Action: Lambdas, streams, functional and reactive programming' chapter 6.5 or check this link
