I would like to stream on a collection of object myClass in order to grouping it using Collectors.groupingBy(). But, instead of retrieving a Map<String, List<myClass>>, I would like to group it on a object myOutput and retrieve a Map<String, myOutput>. I tried to create a custom collector :
List<myClass> myList = new ArrayList<myClass>();
myList.add(new myClass("a", 1));
myList.add(new myClass("a", 2));
myList.add(new myClass("b", 3));
myList.add(new myClass("b", 4));
Map<String,myOutput> myMap = myList.stream().collect(Collectors.groupingBy(myClass::getA, Collectors.of(myOutput::new, myOutput::accept, myOutput::combine)));
myClass :
protected String a;
protected int b;
public myClass(String aA, int aB)
{
a = aA;
b = aB;
}
public String getA()
{
return a;
}
public int getB()
{
return b;
}
myOutput :
protected int i;
public myOutput()
{
i = 0;
}
public void accept(myClass aMyClass)
{
i += aMyClass.getB();
}
public myOutput combine(myOutput aMyOutput)
{
i += aMyOutput.getI();
return this;
}
public int getI()
{
return i;
}
But with this code, there is a problem with the collector :
Collectors.of(myOutput::new, myOutput::accept, myOutput::combine)
I know in this case a reduction will be much easier, but let's assume there are a lot of operation to do in the myOutput object.
What's wrong with this collector?