I have a List<Users>
. I want to get the index of the (first) user in the stream with a particular username. I don’t want to actually require the User
to be .equals()
to some described User
, just to have the same username.
I can think of ugly ways to do this (iterate and count), but it feels like there should be a nice way to do this, probably by using Streams. So far the best I have is:
int index = users.stream() .map(user -> user.getName()) .collect(Collectors.toList()) .indexOf(username);
Which isn’t the worst code I’ve ever written, but it’s not great. It’s also not that flexible, as it relies on there being a mapping function to a type with a .equals()
function that describes the property you’re looking for; I’d much rather have something that could work for arbitrary Function<T, Boolean>
Anyone know how?
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Answer
Occasionally there is no pythonic zipWithIndex
in java. So I came across something like that:
OptionalInt indexOpt = IntStream.range(0, users.size()) .filter(i -> searchName.equals(users.get(i))) .findFirst();
Alternatively you can use zipWithIndex
from protonpack library
Note
That solution may be time-consuming if users.get is not constant time operation.