Is there a concise way to iterate over a stream with indices in Java 8?

Question

Is there a concise way to iterate over a stream whilst having access to the index in the stream?

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Answer 1

This question (Stream Way to get index of first element matching boolean) has marked the current question as a duplicate, so I can not answer it there; I am answering it here.

Here is a generic solution to get the matching index that does not require an external library.

If you have a list.

public static  int indexOf(List items, Predicate matches) {
        return IntStream.range(0, items.size())
                .filter(index -> matches.test(items.get(index)))
                .findFirst().orElse(-1);
}

And call it like this:

int index = indexOf(myList, item->item.getId()==100);

And if using a collection, try this one.

   public static  int indexOf(Collection items, Predicate matches) {
        int index = -1;
        Iterator it = items.iterator();
        while (it.hasNext()) {
            index++;
            if (matches.test(it.next())) {
                return index;
            }
        }
        return -1;
    }