Is there a common Java utility to break a list into batches?

Use Apache Commons ListUtils.partition.

org.apache.commons.collections4.ListUtils.partition(final List<T> list, final int size)

With Java 9 you can use IntStream.iterate() with hasNext condition. So you can simplify the code of your method to this:

public static <T> List<List<T>> getBatches(List<T> collection, int batchSize) {
    return IntStream.iterate(0, i -> i < collection.size(), i -> i + batchSize)
            .mapToObj(i -> collection.subList(i, Math.min(i + batchSize, collection.size())))
            .collect(Collectors.toList());
}

Using {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}, the result of getBatches(numbers, 4) will be:

[[0, 1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6, 7], [8, 9]]

Here is a simple solution for Java 8+:

public static <T> Collection<List<T>> prepareChunks(List<T> inputList, int chunkSize) {
    AtomicInteger counter = new AtomicInteger();
    return inputList.stream().collect(Collectors.groupingBy(it -> counter.getAndIncrement() / chunkSize)).values();
}

Here an example:

final AtomicInteger counter = new AtomicInteger();
final int partitionSize=3;
final List<Object> list=new ArrayList<>();
            list.add("A");
            list.add("B");
            list.add("C");
            list.add("D");
            list.add("E");
       
        
final Collection<List<Object>> subLists=list.stream().collect(Collectors.groupingBy
                (it->counter.getAndIncrement() / partitionSize))
                .values();
        System.out.println(subLists);

Input: [A, B, C, D, E]

Output: [[A, B, C], [D, E]]

You can find examples here: https://e.printstacktrace.blog/divide-a-list-to-lists-of-n-size-in-Java-8/

There was another question that was closed as being a duplicate of this one, but if you read it closely, it's subtly different. So in case someone (like me) actually wants to split a list into a given number of almost equally sized sublists, then read on.

I simply ported the algorithm described here to Java.

@Test
public void shouldPartitionListIntoAlmostEquallySizedSublists() {

    List<String> list = Arrays.asList("a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g");
    int numberOfPartitions = 3;

    List<List<String>> split = IntStream.range(0, numberOfPartitions).boxed()
            .map(i -> list.subList(
                    partitionOffset(list.size(), numberOfPartitions, i),
                    partitionOffset(list.size(), numberOfPartitions, i + 1)))
            .collect(toList());

    assertThat(split, hasSize(numberOfPartitions));
    assertEquals(list.size(), split.stream().flatMap(Collection::stream).count());
    assertThat(split, hasItems(Arrays.asList("a", "b", "c"), Arrays.asList("d", "e"), Arrays.asList("f", "g")));
}

private static int partitionOffset(int length, int numberOfPartitions, int partitionIndex) {
    return partitionIndex * (length / numberOfPartitions) + Math.min(partitionIndex, length % numberOfPartitions);
}

Similar to OP without streams and libs, but conciser:

public <T> List<List<T>> getBatches(List<T> collection, int batchSize) {
    List<List<T>> batches = new ArrayList<>();
    for (int i = 0; i < collection.size(); i += batchSize) {
        batches.add(collection.subList(i, Math.min(i + batchSize, collection.size())));
    }
    return batches;
}

Note that List#subList() returns a view of the underlying collection, which can result in unexpected consequences when editing the smaller lists - the edits will reflect in the original collection or may throw ConcurrentModificationException.

Here's a solution using vanilla java and the super secret modulo operator :)

Given the content/order of the chunks doesn't matter, this would be the easiest approach. (When preparing stuff for multi-threading it usually doesn't matter, which elements are processed on which thread for example, just need an equal distribution).

public static <T> List<T>[] chunk(List<T> input, int chunkCount) {
    List<T>[] chunks = new List[chunkCount];

    for (int i = 0; i < chunkCount; i++) {
        chunks[i] = new LinkedList<T>();
    }

    for (int i = 0; i < input.size(); i++) {
        chunks[i % chunkCount].add(input.get(i));
    }

    return chunks;
}

Usage:

    List<String> list = Arrays.asList("a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j");

    List<String>[] chunks = chunk(list, 4);

    for (List<String> chunk : chunks) {
        System.out.println(chunk);
    }

Output:

[a, e, i]
[b, f, j]
[c, g]
[d, h]

Below solution using Java 8 Streams:

        //Sample Input
        List<String> input = new ArrayList<String>();
        IntStream.range(1,999).forEach((num) -> {
            input.add(""+num);
        });
        
        //Identify no. of batches
        int BATCH_SIZE = 10;
        int multiples = input.size() /  BATCH_SIZE;
        if(input.size()%BATCH_SIZE!=0) {
            multiples = multiples + 1;
        }
        
        //Process each batch
        IntStream.range(0, multiples).forEach((indx)->{
            List<String> batch = input.stream().skip(indx * BATCH_SIZE).limit(BATCH_SIZE).collect(Collectors.toList());
            System.out.println("Batch Items:"+batch);
        });

if someone is looking for Kotlin version, here is

list.chunked(size)

or

list.windowed(size)

once had an interview question and I wrote below one =D

fun <T> batch(list: List<T>, limit: Int): List<List<T>> {
    val result = ArrayList<List<T>>()

    var batch = ArrayList<T>()

    for (i in list) {
        batch.add(i)
        if (batch.size == limit) {
            result.add(batch)
            batch = ArrayList()
        }
    }
    if (batch.isNotEmpty()) {
        result.add(batch)
    }
    return result
}

Another approach to solve this, question:

public class CollectionUtils {

    /**
    * Splits the collection into lists with given batch size
    * @param collection to split in to batches
    * @param batchsize size of the batch
    * @param <T> it maintains the input type to output type
    * @return nested list
    */
    public static <T> List<List<T>> makeBatch(Collection<T> collection, int batchsize) {

        List<List<T>> totalArrayList = new ArrayList<>();
        List<T> tempItems = new ArrayList<>();

        Iterator<T> iterator = collection.iterator();

        for (int i = 0; i < collection.size(); i++) {
            tempItems.add(iterator.next());
            if ((i+1) % batchsize == 0) {
                totalArrayList.add(tempItems);
                tempItems = new ArrayList<>();
            }
        }

        if (tempItems.size() > 0) {
            totalArrayList.add(tempItems);
        }

        return totalArrayList;
    }

}

A one-liner in Java 8 would be:

import static java.util.function.Function.identity;
import static java.util.stream.Collectors.*;

private static <T> Collection<List<T>> partition(List<T> xs, int size) {
    return IntStream.range(0, xs.size())
            .boxed()
            .collect(collectingAndThen(toMap(identity(), xs::get), Map::entrySet))
            .stream()
            .collect(groupingBy(x -> x.getKey() / size, mapping(Map.Entry::getValue, toList())))
            .values();

}

You can use below code to get the batch of list.

Iterable<List<T>> batchIds = Iterables.partition(list, batchSize);

You need to import Google Guava library to use above code.

import com.google.common.collect.Lists;

List<List<T>> batches = Lists.partition(List<T>,batchSize)

Use Lists.partition(List,batchSize). You need to import Lists from google common package (com.google.common.collect.Lists)

It will return List of List<T> with and the size of every element equal to your batchSize.