Java 8 modify stream elements

Question

I wanted to write pure function with Java 8 that would take a collection as an argument, apply some change to every object of that collection and return a new collection aft

Answer 1

You must have some method/constructor that generates a copy of an existing SampleDTO instance, such as a copy constructor.

Then you can map each original SampleDTO instance to a new SampleDTO instance, and collect them into a new List :

List output = 
    list.stream()
        .map(s-> {
                     SampleDTO n = new SampleDTO(s); // create new instance
                     n.setText(n.getText()+"xxx"); // mutate its state
                     return n; // return mutated instance
                 })
       .collect(Collectors.toList());