Grouping by object value, counting and then setting group key by maximum object attribute

Question

I have managed to write a solution using Java 8 Streams API that first groups a list of object Route by its value and then counts the number of objects in each group. It ret

Answer 1

You can define an abstract "library" method which combines two collectors into one:

static  Collector pairing(Collector c1, 
        Collector c2, BiFunction finisher) {
    EnumSet c = EnumSet.noneOf(Characteristics.class);
    c.addAll(c1.characteristics());
    c.retainAll(c2.characteristics());
    c.remove(Characteristics.IDENTITY_FINISH);
    return Collector.of(() -> new Object[] {c1.supplier().get(), c2.supplier().get()},
            (acc, v) -> {
                c1.accumulator().accept((A1)acc[0], v);
                c2.accumulator().accept((A2)acc[1], v);
            },
            (acc1, acc2) -> {
                acc1[0] = c1.combiner().apply((A1)acc1[0], (A1)acc2[0]);
                acc1[1] = c2.combiner().apply((A2)acc1[1], (A2)acc2[1]);
                return acc1;
            },
            acc -> {
                R1 r1 = c1.finisher().apply((A1)acc[0]);
                R2 r2 = c2.finisher().apply((A2)acc[1]);
                return finisher.apply(r1, r2);
            }, c.toArray(new Characteristics[c.size()]));
}

After that the actual operation may look like this:

Map result = routes.stream()
        .collect(Collectors.groupingBy(Function.identity(),
            pairing(Collectors.maxBy(Comparator.comparingLong(Route::getLastUpdated)), 
                    Collectors.counting(), 
                    (route, count) -> new AbstractMap.SimpleEntry<>(route.get(), count))
            ))
        .values().stream().collect(Collectors.toMap(e -> e.getKey(), e -> e.getValue()));

Update: such collector is available in my StreamEx library: MoreCollectors.pairing(). Also similar collector is implemented in jOOL library, so you can use Tuple.collectors instead of pairing.