Limit a stream by a predicate

This is the source copied from JDK 9 java.util.stream.Stream.takeWhile(Predicate). A little difference in order to work with JDK 8.

static <T> Stream<T> takeWhile(Stream<T> stream, Predicate<? super T> p) {
    class Taking extends Spliterators.AbstractSpliterator<T> implements Consumer<T> {
        private static final int CANCEL_CHECK_COUNT = 63;
        private final Spliterator<T> s;
        private int count;
        private T t;
        private final AtomicBoolean cancel = new AtomicBoolean();
        private boolean takeOrDrop = true;

        Taking(Spliterator<T> s) {
            super(s.estimateSize(), s.characteristics() & ~(Spliterator.SIZED | Spliterator.SUBSIZED));
            this.s = s;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean tryAdvance(Consumer<? super T> action) {
            boolean test = true;
            if (takeOrDrop &&               // If can take
                    (count != 0 || !cancel.get()) && // and if not cancelled
                    s.tryAdvance(this) &&   // and if advanced one element
                    (test = p.test(t))) {   // and test on element passes
                action.accept(t);           // then accept element
                return true;
            } else {
                // Taking is finished
                takeOrDrop = false;
                // Cancel all further traversal and splitting operations
                // only if test of element failed (short-circuited)
                if (!test)
                    cancel.set(true);
                return false;
            }
        }

        @Override
        public Comparator<? super T> getComparator() {
            return s.getComparator();
        }

        @Override
        public void accept(T t) {
            count = (count + 1) & CANCEL_CHECK_COUNT;
            this.t = t;
        }

        @Override
        public Spliterator<T> trySplit() {
            return null;
        }
    }
    return StreamSupport.stream(new Taking(stream.spliterator()), stream.isParallel()).onClose(stream::close);
}

If you know the exact amount of repititions that will be performed, you can do

IntStream
          .iterate(1, n -> n + 1)
          .limit(10)
          .forEach(System.out::println);

    IntStream.iterate(1, n -> n + 1)
    .peek(System.out::println) //it will be executed 9 times
    .filter(n->n>=9)
    .findAny();

instead of peak you can use mapToObj to return final object or message

    IntStream.iterate(1, n -> n + 1)
    .mapToObj(n->{   //it will be executed 9 times
            if(n<9)
                return "";
            return "Loop repeats " + n + " times";});
    .filter(message->!message.isEmpty())
    .findAny()
    .ifPresent(System.out::println);

Even I was having a similar requirement -- invoke the web-service, if it fails, retry it 3 times. If it fails even after these many trials, send an email notification. After googling a lot, anyMatch() came as a saviour. My sample code as follows. In the following example, if webServiceCall method returns true in the first iteration itself, stream does not iterate further as we have called anyMatch(). I believe, this is what you are looking for.

import java.util.stream.IntStream;

import io.netty.util.internal.ThreadLocalRandom;

class TrialStreamMatch {

public static void main(String[] args) {        
    if(!IntStream.range(1,3).anyMatch(integ -> webServiceCall(integ))){
         //Code for sending email notifications
    }
}

public static boolean webServiceCall(int i){
    //For time being, I have written a code for generating boolean randomly
    //This whole piece needs to be replaced by actual web-service client code
    boolean bool = ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextBoolean();
    System.out.println("Iteration index :: "+i+" bool :: "+bool);

    //Return success status -- true or false
    return bool;
}

Might be a bit off topic but this is what we have for List<T> rather than Stream<T>.

First you need to have a take util method. This methods takes first n elements:

static <T> List<T> take(List<T> l, int n) {
    if (n <= 0) {
        return newArrayList();
    } else {
        int takeTo = Math.min(Math.max(n, 0), l.size());
        return l.subList(0, takeTo);
    }
}

it just works like scala.List.take

    assertEquals(newArrayList(1, 2, 3), take(newArrayList(1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 3));
    assertEquals(newArrayList(1, 2, 3), take(newArrayList(1, 2, 3), 5));

    assertEquals(newArrayList(), take(newArrayList(1, 2, 3), -1));
    assertEquals(newArrayList(), take(newArrayList(1, 2, 3), 0));

now it will be fairly simple to write a takeWhile method based on take

static <T> List<T> takeWhile(List<T> l, Predicate<T> p) {
    return l.stream().
            filter(p.negate()).findFirst(). // find first element when p is false
            map(l::indexOf).        // find the index of that element
            map(i -> take(l, i)).   // take up to the index
            orElse(l);  // return full list if p is true for all elements
}

it works like this:

    assertEquals(newArrayList(1, 2, 3), takeWhile(newArrayList(1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 1), i -> i < 4));

this implementation iterate the list partially for a few times but it won't add add O(n^2) operations. Hope that's acceptable.