Java 8 Streams: IntStream to String [duplicate]

Answer 1

This is an other idea:

@Test
public void testIntStreamSequential() {
    final String testString = "testmesoftly";
    IntStream is = testString.chars();
    String result = is.collect(
        StringBuilder::new,
        (sb, i) -> sb.append((char)i),
        StringBuilder::append
        ).toString();
    assertEquals(testString, result);
}

@Test
public void testIntStreamParallel() {
    final String testString = "testmesoftly";
    IntStream is = testString.chars();
    String result = is.parallel().collect(
        StringBuilder::new,
        (sb, i) -> sb.append((char)i),
        StringBuilder::append
        ).toString();
    assertEquals(testString, result);
}

Note that using a dedicated Collector as proposed by @Lii is not very efficient, because of the boxing so you should use this three argument construct (thanks @holger)