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.