I want to know if there is a way to add the last element of the stream that was tested against the condition of the method takeWhile(). I believe I want to achieve something
I add an horrible approach that might be overkill for your (or any) use case, but just for fun.
public static void main(String[] args) {
List source = List.of(1, 3, 2, 5, 4, 6);
Iterator iterator = source.iterator();
AtomicBoolean proceed = new AtomicBoolean(true);
Stream
.generate(() -> {
if (!proceed.get() || !iterator.hasNext()) {
return null;
}
int value = iterator.next();
System.out.println("generate: " + value);
proceed.set(value < 5);
return value;
})
.takeWhile(Objects::nonNull)
.forEach(bar -> System.out.println("forEach: " + bar));
}
The output will be:
generate: 1
forEach: 1
generate: 3
forEach: 3
generate: 2
forEach: 2
generate: 5
forEach: 5
Probably the worst thing about this approach is that it gives generate() a responsibility (checking if there are more) that it does not belong with it.