[ACCEPTED]-What is the Kotlin equivalent of Java Stream.collect?-kotlin

Accepted answer

Score: 21

For scenarios not covered by built in operations 7 toList() etc, you can use the fact that collect 6 is just a fold. So given

val list: List<Pair<String, Int>> = listOf("Ann" to 19, "John" to  23)

you can collect 5 to a collection of your choice with a fold

val map: Map<String, Int> = list.fold(HashMap(), { accumulator, item ->
    accumulator.put(item.first, item.second); accumulator})

If 4 you then define an extension function

fun <T, R> Iterable<T>.collectTo(accumulator: R, accumulation: (R, T) -> Unit) = 
    this.fold(accumulator, { accumulator, item -> accumulation(accumulator, item); accumulator } )

you 3 can further simplify

val map2: Map<String, Int> = list.collectTo(HashMap(), { accumulator, item -> 
    accumulator.put(item.first, item.second) })

Although in this case 2 of course you could just use the .toMap extension 1 function.

Score: 9

NOTE: For some common cases where you would use Stream.collect from Java 8, you can use already existing stdlib functions in Kotlin. For those you cannot find in Kotlin you can explore creating custom flows as described in the answer by @duncan. This answer is added to help know what is capable within stdlib, so you can decide when to write something custom. It answers the title of the question "What is the Kotlin equivalent of Java Stream.collect?"

There are functions in the stdlib for 6 average, count, distinct,filtering, finding, grouping, joining, mapping, min, max, partitioning, slicing, sorting, summing, to/from 5 arrays, to/from lists, to/from maps, union, co-iteration, all 4 the functional paradigms, and more. Little 3 1-liners and no need to use the more complicated 2 syntax of Java 8. I think the only thing missing from the built-in Java 8 Collectors class is summarization.

Another SO Post covers 1 these equivalencies in detail is: What Java 8 Stream.collect equivalents are available in the standard Kotlin library?

Source: stackoverflow.com

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