Java Joy: Partition Stream By Predicate
The Java Stream API has many useful methods. If we want to partition a stream of objects by a given predicate we can use the partitioningBy()
method from the java.util.stream.Collectors
package. We must use this method in the collect()
method of the stream. The result is a Map
with the keys true
and false
. The objects from the stream that are true for the predicate will end up in the true
value list and if the result of the predicate is false
the value will end up in the list of values for the false
key. The partitionBy
method accepts a collector as second parameter. This collector will be applied to the values before they are put in the true
or false
keys in the result.
In the following example we use the partitioningBy
method with different streams: