How to get multiple values from an object using a single stream operation?

Question

I want to determine the minimum area required to display a collection of points. The easy way is to loop through the collection like this:

int minX = Integer         


        

Answer 1

By analogy with IntSummaryStatistics, create a class PointStatistics which collects the information you need. It defines two methods: one for recording values from a Point, one for combining two Statistics.

class PointStatistics {
    private int minX = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
    private int maxX = Integer.MIN_VALUE;

    private int minY = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
    private int maxY = Integer.MIN_VALUE;

    public void accept(Point p) {
        minX = Math.min(minX, p.x);
        maxX = Math.max(maxX, p.x);

        minY = Math.min(minY, p.y);
        maxY = Math.max(minY, p.y);
    }

    public void combine(PointStatistics o) {
        minX = Math.min(minX, o.minX);
        maxX = Math.max(maxX, o.maxX);

        minY = Math.min(minY, o.minY);
        maxY = Math.max(maxY, o.maxY);
    }

    // getters
}

Then you can collect a Stream into a PointStatistics.

class Program {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        List points = new ArrayList<>();

        // populate 'points'

        PointStatistics statistics = points
                    .stream()
                    .collect(PointStatistics::new, PointStatistics::accept, PointStatistics::combine);
    }
}

UPDATE

I was completely baffled by the conclusion drawn by OP, so I decided to write JMH benchmarks.

Benchmark settings:

# JMH version: 1.21
# VM version: JDK 1.8.0_171, Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM, 25.171-b11
# Warmup: 1 iterations, 10 s each
# Measurement: 10 iterations, 10 s each
# Timeout: 10 min per iteration
# Benchmark mode: Average time, time/op

For each iteration, I was generating a shared list of random Points (new Point(random.nextInt(), random.nextInt())) of size 100K, 1M, 10M.

The results are

100K

Benchmark                        Mode  Cnt  Score   Error  Units

customCollector                  avgt   10  6.760 ± 0.789  ms/op
forEach                          avgt   10  0.255 ± 0.033  ms/op
fourStreams                      avgt   10  5.115 ± 1.149  ms/op
statistics                       avgt   10  0.887 ± 0.114  ms/op
twoStreams                       avgt   10  2.869 ± 0.567  ms/op

1M

Benchmark                        Mode  Cnt   Score   Error  Units

customCollector                  avgt   10  68.117 ± 4.822  ms/op
forEach                          avgt   10   3.939 ± 0.559  ms/op
fourStreams                      avgt   10  57.800 ± 4.817  ms/op
statistics                       avgt   10   9.904 ± 1.048  ms/op
twoStreams                       avgt   10  32.303 ± 2.498  ms/op

10M

Benchmark                        Mode  Cnt    Score     Error  Units

customCollector                  avgt   10  714.016 ± 151.558  ms/op
forEach                          avgt   10   54.334 ±   9.820  ms/op
fourStreams                      avgt   10  699.599 ± 138.332  ms/op
statistics                       avgt   10  148.649 ±  26.248  ms/op
twoStreams                       avgt   10  429.050 ±  72.879  ms/op